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Ship Simulator 2008 on PC

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Ship Simulator 2008 is a Racing game available on the PC.

Ship Simulator 2008 is a Racing game. Racing games, although sometimes seen as a sporting sub category, are a well established video game genre in their own right.

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Family Gamer review Mon, 11 Aug 2008

Hailing from a sailing town myself (though my one and only foray out on a yacht had me dropping equipment overboard and then misreading the depth sounding equipment so badly that we nearly ran aground) I was looking forward to Ship Simulator 2008. The game, from Dutch developer VSTEP and published by Lighthouse Interactive, is a follow up to Ship Simulator 2006 with improved graphics and a wider range of ships to control (including speedboats, tugs, oil tankers and even the Titanic).

It's a slightly unusual experience, not least as some of the missions can literally take an age to complete. While that might seem to be a strange complaint, imagine that during the majority of this time you are just sat there steering straight ahead through a realistic but ultimately monotonous seas waiting to reach your destination. This has been addressed in some cases, where you just have to reach a waypoint and are then skipped forward to be just a few minutes away from your target. But there are still many cases where it just seems to be far too much pointless sailing.
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