bneal@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Brian Neal) (06/16/91)
Hello, Does anyone have any comments on the game Das Boat? The box said it ran on _any_ Amiga and was HD installable. I haven't played a decent submarine game since Silent Service on my C-64 years ago. So is this one any good? Thanks, Brian
scheubel@forwiss.uni-passau.de (Christian Scheubel) (06/17/91)
bneal@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Brian Neal) writes: >Hello, > Does anyone have any comments on the game Das Boat? The box >said it ran on _any_ Amiga and was HD installable. I haven't played >a decent submarine game since Silent Service on my C-64 years ago. >So is this one any good? >Thanks, > Brian Hi Brian, I think that Das Boot (it's a german booktitle) is one of the worst sub sim's I've ever seen for an AMIGA. I suppose it's originally made for an IBM like machine. I enjoyed Silent Service and 688 Sub Attack much more than Das Boot. The handling is not so convincing and the pictures (which are well made) are not giving as good information as the pictures of the other games (sorry, simulations) do. Let me read, what you decided to get. C.S.
givler@cbmvax.commodore.com (Greg Givler - Product Assurance) (06/17/91)
In article <6507@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> bneal@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Brian Neal) writes: >Hello, > Does anyone have any comments on the game Das Boat? The box >said it ran on _any_ Amiga and was HD installable. I haven't played >a decent submarine game since Silent Service on my C-64 years ago. >So is this one any good? > >Thanks, > Brian Well, Das Boot does run on any Amiga, I have it on an A3000 under 2.0. runs fine. Now, as to the game itself. I don't like it, now there may be others out there that think that it is great but I am not one of them. Features that I liked: The Radio room, you can send messages to U-Boat HQ, you get orders from them. This all gives you the feel that you are a U-Boat captain. Torpedo room, you can select from looping torps, acoustic torps and magnetic torps. Graphics are great, on an 030 this stuff is beautiful. Features I didn't like: Although you can set marks like they really did, your torps are not programmed. so you have to lead your target to get a hit. Sorry, in real life you got your first mark then dropped your scope, then you got your second mark, dropped your scope, did some geometry figured out your enemies course and speed, set your torps and fired. Then you waited until you hit or missed. 360's treatment is that of the old sub arcade games, not as a simulation. Anti-aircraft, you spend a lot of time getting attacked from the air. Get good at this or you won't last long. In real life you had men that were trained in shooting down planes, the captain should have to. The deck gun, same as above. SUB vs SUB combat, come on, about the only time one sub sank another in WWII was if one found the other one on the surface. This just didn't happen in WWII subs, they could not do that because U-Boats did not have ASDIC, to my knowledge, just hydrophones. Summary: This game had a good premise, getting orders from U-Boat headquarters, which are encoded, you can also try to decode enemy transmissions. But the game turns out to be just a bunch of Arcade Games tied together. To bad I really wanted to like this game. BTW, you get the book DAS BOOT, in the box, I had read this book years ago when it first came out in paper back, great book. Buy the book and Rent the Video, both the german and Dubbed versions are excellent. Skip the game, unless you like arcade stuff with little strategy. If you want an excellent sub game, get Red Storm Rising, it IS the MODERN SUB SIMULATION. There is another game out there, Wolfpack, I know nothing about it, maybe someone out there does. Greg -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Givler | Q-Link: GregGivler Analyst - Systems Evaluation Group | CompuServe: Greg Givler 76702,647 Commodore Product Assurance | GEnie: G.Givler 215-431-9100 | The NET: givler@cbmvax.commodore.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "By the way, don't eat the figs." - Livia to Tiberius after the death of Augustus - I, Claudius PBS ===============================================================================