Silent Hunter 5 truly delivers those intense moments of stalking enemy ships and sending them to the bottom of the ocean with well-timed torpedo shots. I'm going to say a lot of negative things about this game, so let's get the praise out up front.
While I'm sure Silent Hunter 5 will be a better game in six month's time, some of the basic design problems aren't things that can be easily patched. I love the series and have, in the past, been more forgiving of some of the technical troubles purely because the developer's and mod community post-release support has eliminated the worst problems. That said, when you find yourself sneaking past a line of destroyers to sink a battleship and then crash dive as depth charges explode all around you, you're almost able to forget everything else that the game does wrong. The modeling is bizarre, the new approach to crew management is distracting and the entire effort is hampered by bugs. Unfortunately, Silent Hunter 5 seems unable to deliver a consistently satisfying sim experience. These systems have to work realistically but still bend far away from complete authenticity to be not only comprehensible but also, one hopes, at least a little fun. They have to create a game that gives players control of a variety of complex systems that in the real world would actually require numerous trained specialists.
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