

…takes forever! I realise there are probably a lot of compressed textures on that DVD but, my god! The only thing I have ever known be more scary was opening the Monkey Island II box to see 11 (e-l-e-v-e-n) floppy disks inside it… You are treated to a few nice screens from the sim during the installation though, which is nice.

Before playing Silent Hunter 4 you must install the 1.1 patch or it is not worth buying (even with the 1.1 patch it is not a more immersive and comprehensive simulator than Silent Hunter 3 was), this review is of the 1.1 version. Ubisoft were obviously not prepared to wait for another month so the development team could get this patch into the release version and Ubisoft have released what in my opinion is a beta product not in any way ready for release. Ubisoft have released an unfinished product here and just days after release, they had a patch ready to go that still didn’t sort the problems. Development studios have got to stop releasing unfinished products just so they can meet their release date. This post was published 14 years 10 months 16 days ago.
