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Ship Simulator 2008 (PC CD) | 
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| From: Lighthouse Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
Buy New: £11.99
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Rating:  14 reviews
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:
 A fantastic improvement over SS2006 August 7, 2007
Jonathon Staples (Cardiff, United Kingdom)
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.
An Incredible Game, But Incomplete...For Now July 24, 2007
Albert A. Azose (Van Nuys, CA United States)
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.
Made for real ship enthusiasts. August 2, 2007
Angus (Bebington, UK)
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.
Great game for anybody with slightest affinity with ships and boats July 16, 2007
Kitesurfer
17 out of 23 found this review helpful
I don't fully agree with the previous reviewer. Ship wakes are included in Ship Simulator 2008, as you can see on many screenshots and YouTube videos. You just need to turn them on with the graphics quality settings. Fire-fighting functionality was stated once, more than 6 months ago, and indeed dropped. But a whole series of other features were added instead. And why expect fire-fighting to be in a ship simulator game anyway? That's not really essential. Indeed the mission editor has not yet been released, but in Ship Simulator 2006, hardly anybody used it anyway. The development team has given us a massive amount of features in a relatively short timeframe, and I am really happy with it. I am sure the developers will fix whatever is not working, like they did last year.
Awesome. July 24, 2007
Zero Gravitas (UK)
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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