Customer Reviews

Steel Tide

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This is a very entertaining arcade-style submarine game where you are pitted against the dreaded Nazi fl-, er, uh oh that's right, you are fighting the Servarians? Souverians? Whatever, all you need to know is that they blow up real good. In this relatively inexpensive game, your WWII styled sub is equipped with 4 different weapons: torpedoes (fore and aft me maties, Har-Har), deck cannon, dual-barrel deck machine guns and a sniper rifle. You also have a frogman that can swim out from your sub and plant bombs in scripted areas.

The "Dreaded Souverians" (the bad guys) have shore-based cannons, fighters, destroyers, and PT-boats to send after you. Most of the game is centered around getting through the "Dreaded Souverian" sea gates that seperate one game level from the next.

Steel Tide comes has support for a joytick but control with a keyboard and mouse works infinately better. This game would be, and in some cases is, very easy. Your main limitation is your ammo supply, it runs out very quickly, especially the deck cannon which I used heavily, even to take out enemy fighters.

Once you are out of ammo, the game is pretty much over, the torpedoes are plentiful but they sometimes have a mind of their own and they are no match against a concentrated enemy attack. The deck cannon is the ultimate "argument ender" but you become target practice dummy #1 when its out of ammo.

All in all, this gam is a fun, albeit mindless, game to play. What would have made it more interesting is if the frogman could actually get out of the water and perform land based missions under your control.

For a ($$$) budget game, Steel Tide was more fun to play than most of the recent "blockbuster" game titles that are heavy on the fancy graphics and light on the core gameplay. The game was simple, looked good, and was easy to pick up. The developers also wisely made sure that it was incredibly satisfying to blast stuff with the big howitzer-type cannons. After playing Steel Tide, and Operation Blockade before it, I can't wait for the next Infogrames budget masterpiece!

I have always liked sub games but sometimes get annoyed by the simulation stuff. This is the only arcade-like sub game I know of and it is amazing! Why has no one done this before?!?! The controls are pretty intuitive aftera bit of a learning curve and so much fun... the effects and graphics are really good and the sound is too. I have really gotten in to this game and I recommend it. FUN!!...

I love naval games, but sub games have traditionally been very slow and boring to me. I was very pleased to find this game to be extremly fast paced and exciting. The sub controls are more like a FPS than a sim type game, not too complicated. Great graphics, tons of action and stuff to blow up make this game one of my current favs.

I haven't played the game now in months. Had to quit because I sunk all the battlewagons and subs and destroyed all the shore artillery, but can't figure out HOW to get out of the damned lock! But, boys and girls - as a former Destroyer sailor, I have to say I really love this game! The ships are detailed accurately and are a real blast to battle. The only thing that bugged me with this game was that when battling other subs, I'd hit it 4-5 times before it sunk! THEIR torpedoes, on the other hand, were deadly and only took one torpedoe to sink me! I would say this game is definitely worth your money and is hours of fun! The problem I had originally in trying to play the game on Windows XP Home Edition, was in the drivers. I had to download a new driver and BINGO! the game worked fine! So if you're having that problem, go online and see about finding an updated or new driver. My former shipmates would be annoyed that I had so much fun sinking Destroyers... But, they're called "Tin Cans" for a reason... It doesn't take much to sink one... Buy the game and have fun! I highly recommend it!

Steel Tide is, not by any means, a super modern warfare simulator, but merely a fun romp through a very entertaining arcade type naval submarine shooter.

I thought the underwater graphics were very good and the gameplay very fast and furious.

This is a great game for anyone who wants to get away from all the sophistication of the current game genre.

Entertaining, fun, easy to learn, a great tension reliever!

I bought this game a long time ago, and it is a great game. You can take your time and save it, and start again, and do the battle over again.
I went a long way playing it. I think it is a great game to play, espeically trying to go through the underwater tunnels. The water is crystl clear.
Buy this game you will really like it.

It's a WWII submarine game based on one British sub attacking the almost the entire German forces.

I have had this game for a couple years,it's fun to play,I have always been interested in submarines.My only complaint is I am unable to save my game progress,I always have to start from the beginning,once I got to a poiny where there was some type pf fortress with some huge cannon,and could progress no farther.

There is absolutely no support for this game,so if you have problems like unable to save games,you can do what I did,uninstall the game and toss it in the garbage,thats where my Steel Tide ended up after 2 years.

All that effort wasted gets old after a while.

You drive a real submarine, with all functions related to it.

Problem is in the way to guid the submarine and when you shoot the rockets, you should be facing the enemy unit, yet I missed some times when I was shooting... It is not an easy matter.

It is a great game if you like submarines, sea, rockets and many things to be managed same time