Fighting Steel

LADYDRAGON

Saturday September 25,1999

 

 
 

Prepare for war !

 

Divided by Zero with SSI is bringing you a real-time naval surface combat game from the World War 2 time, Fighting Steel. No carriers and no submarine to bother with only ships to command.

Fighting Digital is a real-time naval combat base between the year 1939-1942 during the World War 2. You will be able to command warships from 4 naval fleet, the British, Americans, Germans and Japanese into a 3d surface combat fight.

In the main menu you need to choose the single player or the multiplayer mode. The single player made will have you fight against the CPU and the multiplayer mode allows you to play up to 4 players together on the internet.

Then you can also choose what type of mode and game you want to play. Standard mode will let you all the divisions and the Division Commander, will control only one and the cpu the others.

2 type of game can be played the campaign or Scenario. The campaign will let you play for many weeks or month depending how long you set it and in a fantasy or historical naval fight.

If you select the scenario one you can play in a single player mode either historical battles or create your own scenario with the editor. The editor will let you modified some historical battle or help you build some from scratch. Both have deferent difficulty level, the Ensign, Lieutenant, Captain and Admiral.

These are the basic decision you need to do before you start playing, you will have many more in depth one to do even choosing the color of your ships. But don't worry you have tutorials to guide you properly.

Fighting Steel contain many feature and detail also to make this game good. It has over a 1000 ships in 90 unique ships classes from the 4 naval fleet with 3d ship viewer and also an encyclopedia.

" Nice camouflage paint!"

" Fight at night!"

The same goes for the weapons over 50 guns and 14 torpedo type. Also you have 12 historical scenarios set in the Atlantic and the Pacific from 1939-1942 like the night battle in Tassafaronga between a Japanese destroyer and a US cruiser and destroyer.

this game us full of options and commands for you to control and execute your strategy and that is where trouble starts. The interface has so much options that you get confuse and loss. It will take you a while to figure it out and lots of patient. Also this game suffer the same problem has Falcon 4.0 did. Great game but without the patches, you will freeze or crashed often very annoying when you just figure the command then poof your frozen need to restart. But they are working on it and already some patches are available for it. there is no carriers and submarines, some may wonder why, that is because they wanted to keep it a naval surface war game only.

The graphics though are really nice specially the ships design. You have a 3d camera that does wonders too, you look and zoom on ships from any angles and top to bottom very well done feature by the way.

The sound is very realistic when you get hit by a torpedo you hear that metal sound, that makes you feel like you really got hit and that you have a big whole in your ships. They did a lot of research in order to have those historical scenario accurate and since they included an editor that will bring you more hours of play.

Fighting Steel is a good 3D World War 2 naval surface game but the patches are needed and takes a lots out of the fun to play. If you have to patient to learn these options and interface you will like this game specially if you are a WW II fans.

Companies

Developer
Divided by Zero
www.dividedbyzero.com

Publisher
SSI
www.ssionline.com

Category
Real-Time Naval Combat

Notes

Interest :75%
Control :65%

Graphics :85%
Sounds/Music :84%
Gameplay :78%
Originality :84 %

TOTAL : 79 %

Requirements

Operation System
Windows 95/98

Processor
200 MHz Pentium®

Memory
64 MB RAM

Hard Drive
175 MB

CD ROM
4x

Sound card
DirectX-Compatible Sound card

Video Card
4mb video ram

Input Device
mouse

ESRB Rating
Everyone

Julie Meyer

Golden Lion

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