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Silent Hunter (iPhone)
Mar 9th
I’m honestly not sure what to make of this arcade-style sub-’em-up.
You’re in a submarine during World War 2. And you’re on the side of the Nazis, which is a bit uncomfortable. You travel around on a map of the North Sea, until you hit some ships, then you get a 3D view of the sea and have to kill all the enemy ships and planes.
You’ve got torpedos, big guns for firing at ships and anti-aircraft guns for shooting down planes. It’s all very easy to use (though the anti-air guns could use an option to invert the y-axis), but there’s not a lot of tension or danger. I’ve died once because a ship hit me, but other than that I don’t seem to have been in any danger, even when the icon in the top left of the screen showed I’d been spotted.
It’s not bad, really, but it’s all a bit lifeless. I’m still playing it now and again, hoping that it might click, but I can’t honestly recommend it based on the first hour or so of play.