Guest Reviewer Matt "fatty" Gillis looks at Paradox Interactive's Naval War: Arctic Circle

http://www.simhq.com/_naval/naval_040a.html

Loved the review! You did a great job describing the features and explaining how the annoyances translate into the actual game play. I was part of the testing team for NWAC, and even with my bias IMO you were spot on. I am also of the mind that for $20, you will definitely get your moneys worth out of it. With so few naval warfare titles on the market the entire community seem to hang on every new release. With JanH, one of the developers, being an avid Harpoon fan it must have been quite intimidating to take on a project like this. With the warm reception NWAC has received the future is sure to hold new content in the form of DLC, and new titles that will eventually cover most of the worlds oceans.

Again, outstanding review!

Nice review

great job fatty... well done review.

Enjoyed that review. I had seen this on Steam a month or so ago and was wondering about it. Your review answered a lot of my questions..

BeachAV8R

Good review, I've had pretty much the same experience. On the NW:AC forum there is a mission editor in the works and a rather robust bunch of navysim fans who are pushing things along. Probably wont be a Harpoon killer (not that it was designed to be) but I think it's a good interim title until Conflict comes out.

-Jenrick

Thanks all. You guys must be going easy on me, given it's my first review and all


Yeah, the strong level of forum participation by the developers is pretty encouraging. It has a ways to go still, of course, but they seem pretty committed to support the project. I expect lots of the kinks will be worked out over the next few months New DLC or titles covering different regions and different navies definitely sound good to me. Glad you liked the review!

It's potentially a great game and that was a fair and helpful review. However, to the "Could be better" list I would have added "A significant number of people have been unable to play the game for more than 10 minutes because of constant freezes. No solution in sight yet"

I'm one of those 'significant number of people'.

As am I. Still stuck at the Ragnarok scenario and awaiting a patch.