Right folks, first of all, as we all know by now steam made a freaking mess with this game.
to be able to mod the game even slightly you'll need the 1.5 version that you can get only buying the U-Boat missions expansion pack, so in my opinion don't even think of getting the base game and leave it in vanilla state because, even though it is a very good game on it's own, you should really donwload TMO 2.5 And RSRDC (run silent run deep campaign) to get a ''full'' experience.

The game is now 8 years old but it still holds very well, and let me say that for me it's the last Silent Hunter game because SH5 was a giant pi*s take on the entire series.
So if you are new to this franchise it's a sub sim (duh :D) and this is probably the best one, on par with sh3.

There are really few bugs, I hardly found any in all my playtime and also it's a proper ♥♥♥***g SH game:
the aming sistem is good, it's pretty much the same as the sh3 one and you can have an auto-lock for beginners so that your torps aim automatically at the target or you can have the complex one wich is only for advanced players and the game itself does a good job on explaining how it works

the graphics are OK for an 8 years old game and they can get as pretty as sh5 with jus a couple of mods.
The game has all of the features it should have and it's far better than that apsolute w**k that sh5 is.

BUY THIS GAME OR SH3 FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NOT SH5

Right folks, first of all, as we all know by now steam made a freaking mess with this game. to be able to mod the game even slightly you'll need the 1.5 version that you can get only buying the U-Boat missions expansion pack, so in my opinion don't even think of getting the base game and leave it in vanilla state because, even though it is a very good game on it's own, you should really donwload TMO 2.5 And RSRDC (run silent run deep campaign) to get a ''full'' experience. The game is now 8 years old but it still holds very well, and let me say that for me it's the last Silent Hunter game because SH5 was a giant pi*s take on the entire series. So if you are new to this franchise it's a sub sim (duh :D) and this is probably the best one, on par with sh3. There are really few bugs, I hardly found any in all my playtime and also it's a proper fuc***g SH game: the aming sistem is good, it's pretty much the same as the sh3 one and you can have an auto-lock for beginners so that your torps aim automatically at the target or you can have the complex one wich is only for advanced players and the game itself does a good job on explaining how it works the graphics are OK for an 8 years old game and they can get as pretty as sh5 with jus a couple of mods. The game has all of the features it should have and it's far better than that apsolute w**k that sh5 is. BUY THIS GAME OR SH3 FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NOT SH5