Some hoarding-afflicted simmers (like myself) still own original boxed retail copies of Silent Hunter 2. During key moments, it actually made you feel like you were sharing claustrophobic boat space with Kriegsmarine veterans like Otto Kretschmer and Erich Topp. The sim's well-researched U-boat dynamic created a sense of historical imperative that transcended convention. Sub sim fans have had a pretty good time with Ubisoft Romania's graphically sumptuous Silent Hunter 3, 4, and Vofferings but the franchise first got its Windows sea legs in 2001 with the Ultimation-designed SH2. Your emotions swing from euphoria to despair in seconds as you alternate from hunter-killer to passive prey. That's the mercurial nature of Silent Hunter 2. After my fish made contact and turned the freighters into flaming steel coffins, the convoy's three destroyer escorts descended on me, peppering my crash-diving sub with hull-ripping depth charges.
But the sense of elation I felt is transforming into terror. Probably because I sunk two of the fattest ships in their convoy 15 minutes ago with a perfectly-aimed torpedo spread. Those British destroyers circling manically overhead show no signs of bugging off and leaving me to lick my wounds.
Slicing through the frigid North Atlantic waters, my wounded Type VII-C U-boat is one well-placed depth charge away from bursting open like a cheap German piñata and sinking rock-like to the ocean floor.
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