Silent service is a Video game of simulation of Sous-marin. Conceived by Sid Meier, the play was developed and published by MicroProse in 1985.
The player incarnates a commander of a American Sous-marin carrying out missions in the Pacific Ocean at the time of the Second world war.
Gameplay
The play proposes three different modes of play:- Direct action
- Countryside, with various levels of difficulty
- Drive with the launching of torpedes
In countryside mode, the player must manage displacements of sound Sous-marin by using his chart. It is necessary to scan the radar to detect the presence of enemy boats. Obviously the player with the possibility of accelerating/of slowing down, of plunging the submarine to avoid being made detect. Once a detected convoy, one supervises the enemy fleet using the Périscope, one tries to approach and to have a suitable angle of attack. When all these conditions are carried out one draws the Torpille! Generally one plunges and one cuts the engines not to be made locate. One intends the enemy destroyers then to pass to the top of your head and to release mines.
The play makes it possible to manage part of the functions available on board a submarine:
- To use the periscope with various modes of zoom
- To launch torpedes
- To go up on the bridge and to use the binoculars
- To manage engine
- To plunge/reassemble the submarine
- To visualize the damages of the materials
At the end of a part, the play posts a summary of the cast boats like their total tonnage.
To note
The play had a continuation, Silent service II , left in 1990 on Amiga, Atari ST and DOS.
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