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- Silent Service II -
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Reviewed by Michael Schuessler
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This game was lend to us by Funny Bits Software based in
Stuttgart. This is probably the cheapest games shop you could
find. To have a look at the full list, read the advert in this
Maggie. They also sell hardware.
First of all you should know that this game needs 1
megabyte, a double sided drive (a harddisk would be a lot
better) and a colour monitor.
Remember this game on the gold old Commodore 64 ? Well, if
you liked Silent Service, your are just going to love Silent
Service II. They have included so many more features and extras
which make the game even more playable.
The game starts off with a little test to see whether or not
you have the manual. You are asked to identify a ship. This might
be a problem for people who own the German manual, because the
ship names in the manual are in German and the entire program is
in English. It might be that you have to get out a dictionary.
Anyway, after having passed the test successfully you can then
choose a sub. Some of the subs have 2 deck guns, some are faster
and some are slower (quite logical really!!). Later on you can
choose whether you want historical torpedoes (they don't always
work) or if you want to use flawless ones which always work. You
must also set the date at which you want to enter the war and you
must also define where you want to search for your enemies.
While cruising about CINPAC always informs you what is going
on in the war, i.e. which ships have been sunk, whose troops
have been defeated. Most of the time the messages say something
like "Guide your future operations accordingly". Let's say for
example that some troops have landed in northern Luzon
(Phillipines). If you go there as fast possible you are very
likely to encounter some troop ships.
The computer will start you off on a map on which you can
make out how many ships you must fight. In this case there is
often only one large ship which means that you can surface. If
Çyou then go to deck gun (F4) you can use Y (Z on English
keyboards) to zoom in on the ship. If you then press B a picture
of a ship will appear at the bottom of the screen. You can rotate
the ship around with the cursor keys or you can go onto the next
ship also with the cursor keys. When you have reached the correct
ship the computer will tell you. You can fire long range
torpedoes at the sheep from 9 000 feets away, but keep in mind
that the chance of hitting is very little at this distance and
that you have only got 6 torpedoes in the front.
The graffix have improved a lot from Silent Service. The
enemy ships are far more detailed, the game play is closer to
reality and the sound is marvellous. Throughout the entire game
are samples, i.e. for firing a torpedoe, for diving and when you
are on the sonar of Japanese destroyers.
The game has a few draw backs too. As everything in the game
is realtime calculated, the program code is not fast enough, so
do not press they keys to often, because it always takes the
program a while to update the screen again. Another minus is the
continuous loading. The game has to re-load every single piece
of graffix or text. If you have not got a harddisk it might
become quite annoying after a while, but this does not mean that
you must have a harddisk to play the game !!!
That's about all I have to say about the game apart from
that there are many many different ship for you to sink. Ohh, I
just love this game. Here's the summary:
Name : Silent Service II
By : MicroProse
Price : ~25 Pounds
Value for Money : 9
Graffix : 9
Sound : 9
Playability : 9
Lasting Interest : 9
Amount of Data on Discs : 9
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Overall : 9
Believe me, this game is well worth buying.
Mike