Fighting Steel

Discount Price: $12.04

Accessories:
Saving Private Ryan (Special Limited Edition)	100 Military Leaders Who Shaped World History (100 Series)

Customer Reviews:

I loved this game, but that's just me. [Posted on 2000-12-01]
As a boy, I always wanted to be a in the navy. Unfortunatly, the Dutch Royal Navy academy has a policy of only recruiting people who are able to succesfully calculate a heading and who have at least some grasp of math. Usually, my math teachers started to sob uncontrollably when they saw me entering the classroom, so well... I became an Information Retrieval specialist instead. I was overwhelmed with joy when I discovered Fighting Steel. A combat simulation game! With WWII battleships! Oh boy!

I must say, this game's a blast! At least, when you love either WWII battleships or combat-sims. This is clearly a game for the slugfest- and battle simulation-zealots and not for the action-loving thrillseekers or people interested in having some quick action. When playing the game, expect to be buisy for at leat an hour. Battles will take a LOT of time and effort.

When you like strategic/tactical simulation, or are just fond of historical ships, this is a good game for you.

The ships you can take to sea are the real, historybook celebreties such as the Bismarck, the Yamato, and the Hood, in the thick of battle, you can see turrets exploding, shells impacting, smothering holes in the ship's armour, and then there is a really nice easy-to-use editor to arrange your own gala slugfests.

Unfortunatly, this game has only four stars, instead of five. Why? Becouse this game also has some serious drawbacks. For starters, as already mentioned in other reviews, there is no land to be found. Yes, the developer states in the manual that they deliberatly chose not to incorporate landmasses into the game, but that doesn't mean we have to like it. Another little problem is the fact that the game looks unfinisched at some points. Several of the 3D models models have strange 'holes' in them, and sometimes there are the most odd glithses such as the report of the fact that 'none' has been hit by a shell fired by this and that ship. The last problem I have is the complete abscense of ships other than transports, destroyers, heavy and light cruisers, battlecruisers, and battleships. There are no submarines, aircraftcarriers or anything else not mentioned in the last sentence. This too was done deliberatly as well (or so does the manual say), but again, that doesn't mean we have to like it. Despite all that, Fighting Steel gave me the one thing I bought it for: good clean fun by blowing up historical ships in real-time 3D.

Incompleted and a little bit disappointed [Posted on 2001-01-11]
It's been a while since the last WW2 battleship game out on the market. This game broungt some attention, but the contents are not very well.

The game didn't have enough ships to make it a complete WW2 naval game. It didn't have the later battleships which joined WW2. So the players could not enjoy the whole history and battles during the entire WW2.

The models and the resolution of the ships were out of date. This was not a flight sim which the objects moved more than 200 miles per hour. How much computer power needed to make a 20 knots ship looked good ? I don't think as much as 40 fighters and bomber under the same sky in EAW or even the compaign of Falcon 4.0. So what happened to SSI when they modeled this game ? Didn't they notice the change of the military sim market and the power of graphic cards?

If you want some taste of traditional gun fighting naval game, you can try this one. If you want to find some excitment, this game probably wouldn't give you too much.

Good concept, but too many bugs! [Posted on 2002-07-11]
I think the concept was great and I especially liked the scenario editor - it's fun to set up whatever kind of naval battle you'd like. Unfortunately, there are too many bugs. The most frustrating is right in the middle of a battle, the game quits and goes back to desktop.

Would really like to see a better version with the bugs "debugged". I agree with the other reviews that improvements need to be made in:
1)land mass
2) range tables (more hits at closer range)
3) later WWII ships included.

Fighting Steel [Posted on 2002-09-01]
Hey, I've read all the reviews on Fighting Steel. There is hope. Although Divide By Zero did not do a good job, a group of guys called Navalwarfare Simulations has picked up the ball. They've created patches and updates for virtually every problem with FS and continue to update the game. They've added new ships all the way up to 1946, AND new fleets. They've totally revamped the gunnery and damage control systems. Best of all it's FREE. They're currently releasing the patches all in one easy download. They respond to input and are currently getting ready to release version 7.0 of the FS game. Again All free.

...navalwarfare...

BUY this game. Then download the patches and the newest version. You won't regret it. Included in the download are over 60 new scenarios. I've played over 500 times with no crashes.

Mike

What game did you guys play? [Posted on 2007-08-10]
What game did you guys play?? This is a fascinating game. I got it when it first came out, been playing it until this past spring when it finally gave out. Probably played several hundred games and that doesn't cout my son who has played it for several years as well. I'm ordering another Fighting Steel, since I have seen nothing better in shp to ship combat. By the way - have you tried Carriers At War?? AWESOME. Each gen just gets better.

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