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| From: Lighthouse Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
Buy New: £11.99
You Save: £23.00 (66%)
New (8) Used (2) from £7.99
Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 1145
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: transport-simulation-games
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 8717662270499
ASIN: B000P5TCV8
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: PLEASE TAKE NOTE: This is FACTORY SEALED BUT for some reason the paper picture inlay is a little corner folded in the front bottom right corner - once unwrapped it can be folded back! - This does not affect the game & manual which are sealed inside and the case is fine! For Windows 2000/xp home/Vista
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 An Incredible Game, But Incomplete...For Now July 24, 2007
33 out of 35 found this review helpful
This is indeed an incredible simulation, but it's not perfect, and it's admittedly incomplete. Still, the graphics and game physics are superb, and the game play has been improved over the previous version with the addition of options for weather, waves, clouds, and time of day. The Mission Editing feature, a stalwart of the 2006 version, has been promised in a free future patch, in addition to game-saving and multiplayer functions. Also, an optional add-on patch featuring additional ships will be available soon for downloading (also free if you purchased the 2006 version). That's why I labeled the game "incomplete". Apparently, the developers wanted to get the game on the market knowing that future patches would make it more complete, and I for one am grateful for that decision. I didn't want to wait any longer for the new version.
Players have encountered several bugs, according to complaints posted on the Ship Simulator Forum, but these will be fixed in a promised patch due in August. While the game is delightfully absorbing and truly fun to play, there is one annoyance (other than the bugs, which I have yet to encounter): In the "Free Roaming" mode, your selected ship is placed at random within the harbour or adjacent ocean area you've selected. In other words, you cannot select your starting point. This means many miles to travel in order to reach any other desired point - which can be a turnoff. To be fair, there are two solutions to this dilemma: (1) Start play over so that you will be randomly placed nearer your desired location, and (2) You can customize your own missions and thus place your ship anywhere you please. Customizing missions, as mentioned, will be in a "future patch". We Ship Simulator players optimistally look to these future patches in the hope that they will provide everything our hearts desire - including, someday, tall-masted sailing ships with the sails fluttering in the breeze. (Not likely in the forseeable future, but we can hope.)
Bottom Line: This is a great game - and soon to be a greater one when the patches become available - and well worth it's cost of Euros, Pounds, or Dollars.
A fantastic improvement over SS2006 August 7, 2007
36 out of 39 found this review helpful
If you enjoyed Ship Simulator 2006, then you'll love this!
With added ships, new environments and extended control over the weather and waves, SS2008 gives you unrivalled control over your ocean voyage. Take up a pre-set mission and complete set tasks - anything from loading cargo onto your ship to rescuing people in distress - SS2008 gives you a real and varied taste of the sea.
Or, you can hit free roam mode, choose your ship, starting environment and the weather (and time of day - day OR night!) and take a cruise with no limits - sail across oceans and reach different environments - anything from the Solent to New York, the North Sea or the Phi phi islands, plus many more! Free roam environments (and the missions of course!) feature AI ships - anything from yachts to cargo ships, tankers and even oil rigs!
Take out the Arie Visser and hit 4 metre waves, rain, fog and thunder on the way out to a rescue. Or take the Pride of Rotterdam out round San Francisco in bright sunshine in the middle of August - the choices are endless.
Why not take the Titanic for a spin, leaving Southampton, sailing the Atlantic all the way to New York? Or take a tanker out through the North Sea, passing oil rigs and cargo vessels on your voyage. Use the Fairmount Sherpa to tow oil rigs, or use tugs to help larger vessels manoeuvre - whatever your interest in shipping - it's catered for here! To top it off, there are even missions for using the dock crane to load cargo onto ships!
Ships feature walk-about mode, realistic damage and realistic behaviour in the water - whether powering through massive waves or racing through a flat, calm ocean.
Select your weather - waves from 0 to 4 metres, sunshine or rain, clear or foggy, thunder, wind direction and speed. Create an idyllic sunny day or a full on storm complete with gales - the choice is yours.
The game also features multiple camera angles - allowing for some spectacular views of the action - especially in walkabout mode. As an extra treat, the 2nd class staircase has been opened on the Titanic - allowing full access to the Stern!
As an even better treat, features soon to be released in a (FREE!) patch include - the mission editor, the ships from the SS2006 add-on (if you bought it) sinkable ships and bug fixes (possibly more!).
Vstep does a great job at listening to the community on the official forums over at shipsim.com, and with new content constantly being released by both Vstep and volunteers (including ship designs, new missions and customs skins for the P6 patrol boat) in the ShipSim community, SS 2008 provides all your ocean-going needs from the comfort of your own desk.
Overall, I haven't once regretted purchasing the game, and I enjoy every minute spent rolling through waves and cruising the oceans. SS2008 proves that although 22kts may look slow, it's nothing short of exciting! SS2008 comes highly recommended for real sailors and Sim enthusiasts alike.
Made for real ship enthusiasts. August 2, 2007
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
This game is so good it can hardly be called a game. The graphics are superb as are the ship models. The ships are so realistic and the handling qualities are as near to real as can be. As an ex seafaring man I would recommend this as a must. It is obvious that the Dutch developers have put in a huge amount of work and are continuing to do so to rectify and small "bugs" there are. For anyone who is not sure about purchasing this game the is a free downloadable demo which can be got at www.shipsim.com , This gives a good insight into what is on offer.
Ship heaven? December 28, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Don't be put off by the length, i sum it up at the end.Well at first glance this game might seem like a pretty rubbish idea for a game, seeing that, to sail from Southampton to New York at 25 MPH would take endless days of the same old boring scenary. However Ship Simulator 2008 provides a lot more than that.
GAMEPLAY:
The gameplay on this game is extremely "fun based". In other words, it can be basically played by anyone. The controls are really easy and the defaults are set to the arrow keys, which, lets face i, may provide some fun for a while, but it's a simulation. So i bought myelf a steering wheel. I have to admit, the boats don't fel exactly right, but never will as it's on a PC (i have driven boats in real life). There are a lot of controls to tweak though, and given that most missions are unique you may use these more often then expected. There are a wide variety of missions, from cranes to rescues, and VSTEP keep bringing out more and more patches with extra missions and even a multiplayer now (probably has races etc. in it). So as far as the missions go, your all set there. I spent a while playing the game and time just seems to fly by. The thing i was dissapoinnted by is the lack of gauges in the shops cabin. Although ships don't have that many gauges, they do have more then a steering wheel, throttle and rudder control. As for the missions they are pretty easy to complete, some just draw out the time too long though and got boring and repetative.
The games realism comes into concept here, so i'll just mention it quicky, the game actually is pretty good on the reasonable scale. You can have the HUD set to how you like it, and that provides plenty of information for the technical skippers to look forward too. On the other hand, the game can be completely toned down, so it can be played by a child...a very smal child who knows what arrows are. So for the realism, the game is great on that level, because you can have it just like real life, or have it working with basically the arrow keys and thats it.
OVERALL GAMEPLAY = 9/10
GRAPHICS:
Well the graphics are amazinbg on this game, i played it on two PC's, my new one and my old one. My old one plays it on the highest resolution (1280 x 1024 75Hz) and the graphics settings on Medium. My old PC is 1GB RAM, 3.4 GHz processor and 8600GT graphics card, and i have to say, i didn't think it would play it on that. The medium graphics are amazing for medium as well, and there is no stuttering or jumpiness to the game either. As for the new PC, that has 4GB RAM, 6 GHz processor and 8600GT graphics card, that plays it on High, and full resolution, and to be honest i couldn't make out a whole lot of differance. The only thing really was the shore line and some harbour walls which looked differen, but in no way much worse. The graphics also make the game seem a lot more real, especially with the new wave effects, which will quite literally rock your world.
OVERALL GRAPHICS = 9/10
AUDIO:
Well i got some new speakers the other day so tested them out, there only Trust 2.1 speakers, but the audio quality is amazing. The Horn actually rattles the floor boards in my house, as does the engine noise, which gets rather annoying after a while. The attention to detail with the audio is immense as well, when you are driving a boat in a harbour, there are actually gulls you can hear, and the chopping of the waves or the tapping of the rain is incredible.
OVERALL AUDIO = 8/10
SUMMED UP:
To sum up, Ship simulator 2008 has got to be the best ship simultion ever, no questions asked. If your thinking about buying it, then do, you won't be let down. It has some flaws, like the lack of gauges and only about 25 missions, however with patches constantly coming out, you'll always have something to do. Sadly though no game can be perfect.
OVERALL GAME SCORE = 9/10
EDIT ::
Ship sim makers have just released two patches which now add, realistic gauges and even radio operator effects at the helm, so really, i can't find any fault with the game now. Also multiplayer appears fun and lively with high ping rate.
Awesome. July 24, 2007
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
Just buy it. It's the most realistic simulator you'll see outside of a Nautical Academy.
The developers promised, and they delivered, in spades.
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