688(I) Hunter/Killer
1997
- simulator
- strategy
- warfare
- single player
- multiplayer
The story
Master the sonar and weapons control systems, learn to develop real target situations and outfit your boat with the latest advanced weaponry. Then use your skills to complete the tour of duty and earn your dolphins to become a true submariner.
What it’s like
Cold, murky blue-green sonar displays dominate the screen, with grainy green contacts sliding across dark scopes and the faint ping of active sonar cutting through the hum of the boat. The 1997 PC simulator's interiors are cramped and dimly lit by red and amber panel glow, its fluorescent-tinted control rooms and gray steel bulkheads offering a flat, working-class realism rather than cinematic polish. Its pace is deliberate and methodical: long stretches of listening, plotting bearings and waiting for a noise signature to resolve, then sudden, tense bursts of torpedo preparation. The mood is cold, focused and quietly anxious, a sense of constant calculation under pressure. Violence is abstract and off-screen: torpedo hits register as distant flashes and a dull, far-off thud, with no gore or human faces. It suits a long, quiet evening alone with headphones, rewarding patience and attention. It is for people who enjoy technical simulation, methodical strategy and the slow satisfaction of mastering a complicated system.
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