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REVIEW
ACES OF THE DEEP from DYNAMIX
FORMAT: PC-PC/CD
DATE: OCTOBER
PRICE: US $55.95
In "Aces of the Deep" released by Dynamix, you are the captain of a German
U-Boat during the Second World War. The first thing that strikes you when
playing with Aces, is the simulation's realism.
As the captain of the submarine, you will give orders to the crew and your
actions will be limited to the following: fire torpedoes, go to the bridge,
look through the scope and plot the course. For example, if a plane comes
to attack the ship, you will give orders to shoot it.
Strategy holds an important part in the game. On the charts, you will
plot the course of your ship to intercept convoys in the North Atlantic.
Aces offers you a wide choice of single missions divided into three sections.
Historical missions will place you in the same conditions experienced by
captains in the past. The Convoy Encounter will let you customize the level
of realism, select your type of U-Boat, set the meteorological conditions,
and more, to provide you with good training. The last choice is the Warship
Encounter, a serious challenge where you will have to battle against
warships.
If you feel a single mission is definitively too short for you, you can
start a career and maybe get to have your name in the hall of fame. A choice
of eight starting periods will be offered to you ranging from July 1940 to
May 1945. In the same menu, you will also choose the emblem of your ship.
When you start a mission, you find yourself in the main room where you will
access the other control panels. The scope, for example, is in the middle
of the room, and when you use it, you will see the seawater draining from
the glass and your vision will be blurred for awhile before you can see
what is going on. Then, sea waves will be the first thing that will catch
your attention. The movement is so realistic that you might get dizzy after
having watched them for too long. Two zoom levels are available on the
scope to give you a detailed view of what you are going to blow up. With
the help of torpedoes, you will sink merchant vessels and their escorts.
Every time you fire a torpedo, an amazing animation will show the submarine
launching a torpedo. If the torpedo reaches its target and destroys it,
you will see the explosion and flames while the ship is sinking.
The other panels control the speed, depth and compass. To set the course,
you will have to click on the map and choose the zoom level. Starting from
a general view of the North Atlantic, you can zoom in to see the convoy and
your submarine on the map. You will establish your course very easily with
the mouse aided by the information about target's course provided by your
radio officer.
On the map, you will also see a cone-shaped radar of a ship trying to locate
you beneath the sea. It will show you when you have been spotted by the ship
and it should help you to avoid it. Of course, this option is only available
when the realism is set to easy.
If you think it is taking too long to reach your way point, time can be
accelerated up to 4096 times.
The CD-ROM version features an animated introduction, a full on-line manual,
a U-Boat tour book, maps and a video library. This last choice will allow
you to view and hear historic aces from the Second World War who explain
moments of their life while in the U-Boats.
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Conclusion│
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"Aces of the Deep" out-classes all its predecessors with the realism and such
details as the sea waves's movements, which had never been done before in
a submarine simulation.
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: │
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386 DX-33 MHz or better,
Min 4 MB memory,
MS-DOS 5.0 or later,
Hard drive required,
Single speed CD-ROM drive (150 Kb/s) or faster,
SVGA 256 color graphic card and monitor,
Microsoft Mouse or 100% compatible,
Sound Blaster, Pro Audio Spectrum, Roland MT-32 and General Midi sound card
supported.
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│GRAPHICS├─────────────────┤ 91% │ │4 Brewery Court, The Old Brewery, Theale,
│SOUND ├─────────────────┤ 89% │ │Reading, Berkshire RG7 5AJ, England.
│MUSIC ├─────────────────┤ 92% │ │Tel: +44-(0)1734-303-322
│GAMEPLAY├─────────────────┤ 90% │ │
│INTEREST├─────────────────┤ 94% │ │
└────────┘ └─────┘ │Sierra On-Line Inc.,
┌────────┐ ┌─────┐ │P.O. Box 53250,
│OVERALL ├─────────────────┤ 91% │ │Bellevue, WA 98015-3250.
└────────┘ └─────┘ │Tel: 800-757-7707
│ 206-649-9800
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