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Silent Hunter 5

Platform(s): PC
Genre: Action
Publisher: Ubisoft
Release Date: March 4, 2010

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'Silent Hunter 5' Details First Person View Mode - New Screens & Trailer

by Rainier on Feb. 27, 2010 @ 12:47 p.m. PST

Silent Hunter 5 ventures into uncharted territory and takes players behind the periscope of a German U-boat to take on the Allied Forces in famous battles across the vast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.

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Silent Hunter 5 ventures into uncharted territory and takes players behind the periscope of a German U-boat to take on the Allied Forces in famous battles across the vast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. For the first time in the history of the series, players can live the life of a submarine captain from a first-person view and lead a crew in a critical campaign.

Play in FPS view, Lead Your Crew and Sink Ships

Your job as Captain is to manage your crew. They are trained soldiers in the elite Ubootwaffe, so you don’t need to babysit them in order to do their job. You can be sure that no matter what, they’ll be at their post, doing their job and will even solve any problems that appear.

Like their historical counterparts, your crew will become better as they gain battle experience. Their evolution is up to you, and knowing what abilities and specializations to choose is one of the most important decisions in the game.

  • Skill Points: In order to learn new abilities, you need to have skill points available. Skill points are earned by completing objectives and sinking enemy ships.
  • Morale system: While going on the sea, for a long period, the sailor becomes more fatigued day by day. The morale will decay over time for each crew member, as long as they are going on the sea.
    Officers and petty officers will use their morale pool as the main resource for activating their special abilities. Morale is gained back each time an enemy ship is sunk, or an objective is complete.
    Captain leadership value will be added as bonus points for all crew members’ morale pool. The morale can be also restored by using some special abilities or awarding medals.
  • Abilities Overview: To learn an ability, you have to open the NPC upgrade page and click on the ability icon. Abilities will unlock based on the veteran level of the crew member, which means that not all abilities will be available from the beginning of the game. Abilities have different ranks, which define ability efficiency and mode to use. An ability can be active (requires activation) or passive (once learned will be active). Passive abilities do not require an activation cost (morale) and will not consume morale once activated.

Completing the campaign objectives and following the historical events through the dynamic campaign, the player will advance in rank and position. When the player becomes captain, the progression will not stop. From that point on the experience points will increase his leadership, grant renown, and add skill points.

Leadership value will add as a bonus value for each crew member’s morale pool. In other words, the more experienced the captain becomes, the more efficiently the crew will perform.

Skill points are obtained from renown points. Skill points are used to upgrade crew member’s active and passive abilities.


Silent Hunter 5 key features:

  • Walk through highly detailed submarines in the new first-person view and access every part of your U-boat.
  • Interact with your crew, watch them perform their daily jobs and experience the tension and fear inside the U-boat through the new advanced order system.
  • Choose your own strategy and select your targets with a new objective-driven, dynamic campaign.
  • Open new locations, upgrades and resupply possibilities, while the Allied ships adjust dynamically to your approach. Your actions will directly impact the evolution of the campaign.
  • Prowl the waters with a brand-new user interface. Now, every beginner can successfully command a sub while remaining free of confusion. In expert mode, experienced players will be provided all the necessary information and controls to command the sub completely on their own.
  • Experience the most realistic and immersive Silent Hunter ever created. Improved environment graphics create a powerful level of immersion as you operate authentic, highly detailed U-boats and fight against surface ships.

System Requirements

  • Minimum :
    • OS: Windows XP (with SP3), Vista (with SP2) or Windows 7
    • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 / AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+
    • RAM: 1 GB (WinXP), 2 GB (Vista, Win7)
    • Graphics Card: 256 MB DirectX 9.0c-Compatible
    • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c-Compatible
    • HardDrive Space: 8 GB free hard drive space
  • Recommended:
    • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 / AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ or higher
    • RAM: 1 GB (WinXP, Vista, Win7)
    • Grafikkarte: 512 MB DirectX 9.0c-Compatible
    • Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 2600, Nvidia GeForce 8800 or better (laptop edition of this chipset are not officially supported).

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