The fourth game in the Silent Hunter series lives up to the names of its predecessors and then some.
The game sets you as an American submarine commander in WWII fighting the Japanese for control of the pacific. Just like the games before it, you can join the fight at any point during the way, and are assigned patrols to go out and sink enemy ships. Sounds the same as its previous games, but it differs in the fact that this is an American Naval force, and you're spending most of your time sinking ships rather than hunting for them. One of the problems with Silent Hunter III was that you could go out on a patrol almost across the atlantic and never see a single ship. You wont have this problem in SH4 and more than likely, you will run out of torpedoes before you even reach your destination.
The game also delivers high quality graphics that imerse the player in the game environment. Where some games can get away without this, it really adds to the magic of this game, and without it, it would be missing a huge part of the franchise. Silent Hunter has always used cutting edge graphics, and they spared no expense. While this can bog down the slower machines, take heart that even at the lowest settings, the game still runs smoothly and beautiful.
Silent Hunter is a great game franchise, and this latest addition spared no expense in pushing its way to the forefront of that lineup, arguably being the strongest yet seen.