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Silent Hunter 5 Battle of the Atlantic | 
| From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: CDN$ 59.99
Buy New: CDN$ 49.83
as of 7/28/2010 15:21 EDT details
You Save: CDN$ 10.16 (17%)
New (2) from CDN$ 49.83
Seller: Amazon.ca
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 3268
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Genre: simulation_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 68579
Model: 68579
UPC: 008888685791
EAN: 0008888685791
ASIN: B002PAIPQO
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Make history by achieving objectives in a dynamic campaign and play through historical based scenarios. Every action of the player will have an impact on the following missions and the overall scenario development. | | • | Silent Hunter returns to the Atlantic to give the player the chance to control accurately recreated German submarines, and satisfies the wish of the large simulation community! | | • | Interact with the submarine crew, command the officers onboard. Watch them perform their daily jobs; experience the tension & fear inside the U-boat. For the first time, walk through highly detailed submarines in FPS fashion. | | • | New level accessibility will cater to more casual simulation fans. New users will be able to play Silent Hunter: Battle of the Atlantic in ?easy mode? and prowl the waters free of confusion or complication. | | • | Cinematic experience with improved environment graphics and highly detailed submarine models increases the level of realism & immersion in the game. Includes the exclusive PBS documentary: ?LOST & FOUND Legacy of the USS Lagarto.? |
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| Customer Reviews:
STEAM and the need to be ONLINE KILLS this SH game series April 13, 2010
Phillip Turtle (Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
See you later UBISOFT I would never buy a product from any vendor that requires a user to be online in order to use it....be it a game or otherwise. Vendors need to understand that trust is a two way street.....I don't mind registering my purchased product but I don't like having an online connection to a vendor that does not trust me.
Couldn't even start it. March 22, 2010
A. Hurynovich (Canada, Toronto)
Ok, my experience was short! I tried it from a guy who downloaded this game. Everything was perfect, game installed and started but ... the guy has a REGULAR HP dv-9000 laptop, not the most powerful but modern one, so the game needs so much video card and other power that we even couldn't leave our garage! He had to uninstall the game within minutes and went back to "Silent Hunter" - III and IV... I would ask Ubisoft to take into account regular modern computers and average users' hardware possibilities.
I always buying original products but i love to make sure it's usable at least and preferably I must like it more than OK. Last experience made me thank that I didn't buy original game before I tried it in action. This sub will stay in garage for unpredictable period of time so far.
SUNK WITH ALL HANDS March 8, 2010
NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in geosynchronous orbit)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Recently UBISOFT has released a number of games with minimal or no DRM nonsense. Is this the other half of the experiment, where a game sold consists mostly of...DRM?
Once installed, STEAM hunts for an internet connection. If it is successful it automatically downloads advertisements and updates for both your STEAM-activated games and STEAM itself. If it fails to connect to its mothership, it offers you the option to restart in the offline mode - which, for me, it works about 25-30% of the times.
STEAMed games become worthless the moment they are activated as they cannot be transferred to another user, in other words they cannot be gifted or sold second-hand. Having our paid for games stolen-back from us by STEAM and its fickle offline nature are the two main reasons I hate it (others include snooping on us and reporting back to its occasional masters and. If, like me, you thought it could not become any worse than that, guess again. UBISOFT made sure to prove us wrong.
Games that require activation never actually become yours to keep as the possibility of you replaying it in the future depends on the existence of the original publisher and him willing to allow you to do so (both major doubts!).
Now, having to stay online all the time to play even a Single Player session is an idiotic requirement. Apparently UBISOFT considers legitimate buyers to be thieves, has us jumping through hoops to prove we are not and even prevents us from using the product we paid for whenever we cannot get online.
Pirates, of course, have nothing to complain about, as I just googled it and the game has already been cracked!
Way to go UBISOFT! Even from my orbit I can detect the implosion sounds and see the debris oil-slick.
This sub is dead.
Crippled by restrictive DRM March 7, 2010
E. Juhala (Vancouver, BC)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
While the game itself shows great promise (though much like every game in the series wont truly shine until the mods have fixed some of the omissions from the game) its crippled by draconian DRM that restricts play when not online. Meaning any disruption in your Internet connection stops the game until a stable connection is resumed.. on top of that the games constantly trying to upload your savegames to ubisofts servers.. this takes time.. and as anyone familiar with modern games will tell you savegames can get pretty big sometimes.. I just cleared out over 2 gigs worth of saves I'd been keeping for "the witcher" imagine trying to upload those to Ubisoft with whatever pathetic upstream bandwidth you have. Not only are you dependent on your own internet connection, but also Ubisofts. If they have any network trouble on their end, or any trouble with the systems running their DRM server for that matter you also cant play your game..
So paying customers get treated like thieves meanwhile the game's new DRM was cracked in under 24 hours and anyone who cares to can download it for free.
Seems to be like a massive waste of time and money not to mention good relations with Ubisofts potential customers.
I was once one of those customers but will be boycotting any game to use this DRM or anything similar. Good bye Ubisoft.
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