Silent Hunter®: Wolves of the Pacific U-Boat Missions on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Experience the thrill of the hunt! Prowl the waters as the captain of a German submarine in a never-before-seen theatre of operations the Indian Ocean. Take part in the war against British supply lines off the coast of North Africa and support the Japanese war against the U.S. Navy.

Silent Hunter®: Wolves of the Pacific U-Boat Missions is a simulation, naval combat and submarine game developed by Ubisoft Romania and published by Ubisoft.
Released on August 27th 2009 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 303 reviews of which 246 were positive and 57 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

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Windows

OS *: Windows® XP/Vista Only
Processor: 2GHz Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon (4 3GHz Pentium or AMD Athlon recommended)
Memory: 1 GB (2 GB recommended)
Graphics: 128 MB RAM DirectX® 9?compliant, video card capable of rendering Pixel Shader 2.0 (256 MB RAM recommended) (see supported list*)
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c or later (included)
Sound: DirectX 9 ?compliant sound card
Hard Drive: 6 GB
Multiplay: 128 kbps upstream or faster (512 kbps upstream or faster needed to host online games)
*Supported Video Cards: ATI® RADEON® 9600/9700/9800, X300 to X850, X1300 to X1800 NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6200/6600/6800/7800

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Nov. 2024

Silent Hunter®: Wolves of the Pacific U-Boat Missions – A Dive into Nostalgia and Tense Naval Combat 🐋⚓ As someone who has loved submarine games since childhood, this expansion is an absolute treasure! Taking command of a German U-boat in the Indian Ocean offers a fresh perspective, and it’s thrilling to prowl the waters hunting for British supply convoys. The missions are historically immersive, and the challenge of stealthily evading enemy destroyers never gets old. 🎯🚢 The game captures the tension of underwater warfare perfectly, with beautifully rendered ocean vistas and dynamic weather adding to the atmosphere. Whether you’re supporting the Japanese fleet or taking on Allied naval forces, every encounter feels like a critical chess move beneath the waves. Silent Hunter doesn’t just simulate submarine warfare—it makes you live it. Dive in and relive the glory of the silent service! Created with <3

Nov. 2024

I am only just embarking on my first proper mission so I cannot comment on how that will go, but from my protracted time in the submarine school I think SH4 is really enjoyable and I would recommend it. The graphics are not up to today's ultra-high realism standard but the game is still highly immersive. On my first exercise I stupidly surfaced more or less right next to an enemy destroyer and it was a genuinely scary experience! The walk-around interior in the stock game is by default limited to the control room and conning tower, however you can easily conduct a mission using the charts, sonar, radar, periscopes and the torpedo data computer in first-person mode. I personally think is a big plus point and if you turn off 'automatic targeting' then your campaigns will be about as hard as they probably were in real life. Sinking a ship with just the deck gun is particularly satisfying and the sinking animation itself is very impressive. You can even dip the external camera under the water to see the vessel heading for the sea bed, complete with collapsing bulkhead and exploding boiler noises. Dipping the camera underwater when you are in shallow water is also a sobering experience as you see rocks looming out of the murk just a few feet from the hull. Although you play as the captain, selecting a new course may still result in the sub staying on it's existing heading if you have allowed the crew in the control room to fall asleep. Selecting the right crew with the right skills for each station is an important aspect of the game. I do recommend installing a couple of basic third-party mods, one to provide a larger protractor on the chart display and one to make the telegraph and compass dials larger and easier to read. There are plenty of other free mods covering things like changing the chart style to adjusting the field of view of the periscopes. You'll find these mods on the Subsim Radio Room forum where there is also a great community of seasoned Silent Hunter players who, in my experience, are more than happy to help newbies.There are also 'mega-mods' for SH4 like FOTRSU and TMO which dramatically modify the gameplay and increase both the graphics and operational realism level for each mission. On a side note I also think the music is great... I mean really good. The musical theme changes dynamically to suit the action and it never seems to get tiresome although you can of course turn it off. I did think for a while that the fuel gauge was broken as it never seemed to move but it turns out that subs can travel 11,000 nautical miles on a full tank so it takes a while for the gauge to start going down. Sadly, you can't shoot the seagulls with the anti-aircraft gun, but that's the only downside I have found so far.

Oct. 2024

Still one of the best submarine games out there after all these years from introduction. Graphics and Gameplay are still semi competitive modern. The range of MODS and so forth for it are very numerous and expand the gameplay by considerable margins. I still give SH4 5-Stars.

Oct. 2024

Those aren't shell holes in my pressure hull. They're for ventilation. It gets hot in the Pacific in July.

April 2024

This is the best Submarine game to date im my honest opinion. It improves upon the original SH4 and gives you back the German submarines with the new Pacific setting. I played a lot more back in the day and many years later I still love this game. There are many mods at subsim to try out so please check what they have to offer. My review of the base game can be copied and pasted here so here we go: Playing this as a kid and modding the hell out of it was some of the fondest memories I have of this game. Subsim is legendary and I believe there was at least one more site where I got mods from. Mods even had their dedicated launcher of sorts. Driving the Bismarck, Yamato, Typhoon submarine and nuking pretty much any island... damn that was fun to play. The whole "time simulation" aspect of the game amazed me. I tried to see if I can play until 1946. Yes, you can. Even talked to my mom about it, since I was hyped for some odd reason. Perks of being a kid I guess. Still, after many years I replayed this game again. And it is still as good as I remember. The Expansion is what I enjoyed more since the US campaign is not as interesting as the German. But this game had some beautiful wallpapers. My mom even wanted to print some of those to make like a collage of black and white photos (submarine in NY is generally an awesome wallpaper) to put on my wall in my room. I consider this game an overall improvement on SH3, which I didn't play as much, but I did play SH2 a lot before that. The soundtrack is great, especially the main theme and credits. I listened to it from time to time since I first played it. This game isn't about the story as it is about the experience. And that is where this game shines. Trully a classic in the Subsim genre.

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4.99€

7.6

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Developer

Ubisoft Romania

Publisher

Ubisoft

Release 27 Aug 2009

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