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Does not work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 20
Date: June 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

For background I have played all the Silent Hunter gamers from early DOS SS! To the new Wolves of the Pacific. The NEW Wolves of the Pacific is the worst I have played. Buttons don't work, short keys have been changed and it crashes big time. Silent Hunter 3 (MS Flight simulator) does not crash in the same PC. FYI my systems is a P4 3.0 gigahertz with ATI Radon 9800 Pro 128mb with 2 gigs of 3200 ram.

I have also noted 2 current upgrades for a game that has only been out for a few weeks. The graphics are very good with a lot of detail that is not really needed. I would rather have a robust game like SH III that runs and functions. I would not recommend this game for at least several months to see if UBI get all the bugs fixed. They should have stayed with the same game engine and configuration as SH (which works) instead of adding way to many little things that make the game unplayable. It is Sad that SH 3 works fine but Wolves of the Pacific crashes big time on the same PC.

Not worth the effort

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 14
Date: April 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Have used other UBISOFT products in the past and was very disappointed in their efforts here and the product they have put on the street. This game is new to the market, is not very computer compatible with more bugs than worth the effort, and should have been released as a beta version. After a few sessions it has been uninstalled.

Down Periscope

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: July 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is so buggy it will barely run. When you add an unhelpful manual and tutorials that don't show you how to do anything, the beautiful graphics just wind up cheesing you off more. I'd give anything for the old Silent Hunter Commander's Edition - take a look at the Amazon ratings for it - 5 stars. But who runs Windows 98 anymore?

Do Not Buy This Product

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game directly from Ubisoft. I installed and it on a Win XP pro system with 2GB of Ram and 250GB hard disk space. It crashed every time I tried to play it. I contacted Ubisoft and they provided help on "tweaks and fixes" none of which worked. They asked me to uninstall and re-install. I did and still the game would not work. After 3 or 4 hours of trying their fixes I had had enough and asked for my money back. I was told that because I registered the software and used the game they could not provide a refund. I responded by saying yes I had registered the game, but how could I have used the game if it crashed every time I try to run it? They basically said no refund. If you search their user forums you see similar complaints to mine. I wish I had access to their user forums before I bought the game. Anyone considering buying this game should consider my story as a warning.

Does Not Work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: May 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was looking forward to this game. Installed it exactly as instructed and it did not work. Had my computer Doctor look at it to determine if I installed wrong. Could not find any problems on my side. Did not return it as I have been out of the country and it is now too late.
However... the company that sold it to me was excellent in their delivery date and the product was NEW.
Bernard Sands

Was OK in It's Day

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: July 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

UNFORTUNATELY, that day was long, LONG ago! And my memory of it was sadly lacking when I ordered it for a new computer. Just doesn't cut it with an interface right out of DOSS! If you are used to MODERN GAMING, you will use this for Frisbee practice.

Silent Hunter: Wolves of the Pacific

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Not as good as SH-3. The interface is just to screwed up. I was hoping for a great follow up to SH-3, boy was this a let down. I still play SH-3. I gave this one away.

Skip this game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: March 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Everything I have heard about this game is true - the good and bad. Right out of the box there was an immediate problem with Bugs. I have downloaded the patch, but there are still some serious gliches. Ubisoft is known for bugs, but they really out did themselves. It seems that they forgot to do any quality control testing. The game itself is fun - if you get past the low quality programming.

Great premise, buggy delivery

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The Silent Hunter series has been a great series, to date. I own II and III and still play them. I was thrilled when I heard of Silent Hunter IV. I missed the days of Silent Service on the C64, cruising around the warm and Sunny Pacific.

The submarine simulator genre is always plagued by technical junkies, history buffs, and detail nit-pickers, but, out of the box, SH4 is a bomb in all aspects. There are numerous crash-to-desktop scenarios, one of them is by pressing the "a" key (normally used in the game). The dials and instruments used to manually compute a firing solution don't work and torpedoes don't run at the right speed, so getting a kill by torpedoes is pure luck, even with the automatic setting. How did *that* pass quality control?

Graphics are good, as long as you have a Cray or two to provide processing power. Even if you do have a top of the line rig there are numerous graphical glitches and errors (e.g., a 2001-like monolith rectangle that sucks FPS) that simply kill the game. The interiors of the subs have graphical issues, as well, including periscopes that don't move, lights that flicker that shouldn't, and dials and wheels that either move the wrong way, or don't move at all.

The game shipped with a copy-protection scheme that apparently caused a lot of problems, even with legit users. I never experienced this, and it may be that the legit users weren't so legit.

Even if you learn how to work around the broken targeting system and set the graphics settings to their absolute lowest, the enemy AI is terrible. Often all it takes to sink a convoy is to look at it. I watched a fleet of cruisers and destroyers bash into each other until they exploded and sunk without firing a single shot or even surfacing. Sometimes convoys seem to be sailing along normally until the first torpedo hits, then they come to a complete stop.

There are patches available and a dedicated submarine simulation community (www.subsim.com) that have fixes and workarounds to most of the problems in SH4, but, in this reviewer's humble opinion, it's simply not worth the money or effort. Go buy Silent Hunter 3, download the patches and a mod package or two, and the experience will be much more enjoyable.

Great game but released unfinished!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 21 / 22
Date: May 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This will probably be a great game after it is properly patched. They have only released patch 1.2 as I write this and unfortunately, there are still major issues to be corrected. I am a huge fan of Silent Hunter III (that is a 5 star game, by the way).
So, the game as it is now, is not great. If you buy it now, you will join me as an unwanted beta playtester for Ubisoft that should have waited and released the game when it was READY!
If they continue releasing patches and fix all the issues, this will probably be a 5 star game at some point in the future.
It is a real shame, really, I would like to have been writing a great review for this game...

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