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Originally Posted by Weirdness
http://store.steampowered.com/app/2910/
Is this it? It seems only available in a bundle, any idea about the other games? My only experience with naval sims is Silent Hunter III and Aces of the Deep but a modern sim sounds cool. Getting classic games to run on Steam is pretty iffy though, I'm not sure I want to spend a few hours getting the thing working properly after paying all that money.
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Yes that its, I had no problem running it in XP but I haven't tried it in 8 yet.
Be warned though the Jane series of games are incredibly indepth and accurate and do required a lot of attention to detail. they're really fun. But little mistakes will sink your fleet.
I didn't pay attention to air craft ranges and lost half of an alpha strike after they went past bingo fuel for example. I kept losing ships to subs because I didn't pay attention to the sea conditions.
Sub Command which comes with the pack is probably the best modern sub simulator that I've ever played. It even teaches you how to interpret the waterfall displays on the sonar station and you have to effectively know how your torpedos and towed sonar array works. You also need to figure out a effective search strategy, you can't just barrel into your search.
688 (i) was also very accurate it was a very indepth simulation of a 688i right down to manipulating your boats trim. It could also be fairly boring at times as your targets wouldn't present themselves, you'd literally be chasing a sonar ghost for hours.
If your going to buy it get the 4 software package because Dangerous Waters was very cool in that you could command a ship and all of its stations, then jump into a helicopter or a P3 to hunt for subs
None of these games have a arcade feel to them like other warfare games, I would class them as pretty hardcore.