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User Rating: 5 | Fighting Steel: World War II Surface Combat 1939-1942 PC
Fighting Steel. When i bought the game i was so like: Great, a ship sim. And really cheap too. When i brought the game home i found out that it is, em how to say, mediocre at best. The starting menu is nice so i went with the first option. I have chosen the british navy, the difficulty setting, the time of the campaign and, well thats it. :) After that you see a menu that is all about your ships. The ones you have, the ones that are on repairs and the ones that are still being built. You click the button to your first mission (i dont remember what it says anymore) and you are taken to the briefing. You find out what mission it is, whether it is historical or not. You can see your ships and change their colour but you cant change them. Okey, after that you see the battle itself. The graphics arent very nice but it is a 1999 game so i wasnt too dissapointed. The ships got some nice details but the explosions are quite bad looking. The gameplay is awful. Awful. There is little strategy in this game, no manual to explain if it is at all. The only good thing about the game is that you can actually fire torpedoes from destroyers and cruisers. I fired more than 300 in my time playing this game and i always had great fun. The thing concerning me is that only 2 of them ever hit!!! 2!! Maybe im that bad or what but still... The sound is em, lacking. Most of it are the explosions and the couple of soundtracks that play in the menus. Value. Hm. No. The value isnt very good. It sucks. The only reason i played the game for so long was that it is so hard to learn. I still dont know some of the options in the game. Altogether this isnt much of a sim. It isnt fun or realistic so i dont would have to go with: DONT BUY IT! Maybe for 3$ but not more.
