Ship Simulator 2008
Release Date: July 13, 2007
Ship Simulator 2008 is another game prepared by the Dutch company VSTEP, which deals with sailing on various ships. This time Dutch developers decided to serve a much more elaborate and richer product than in the previous iteration.
- Ocean waves, with realistic ship motions
- Advanced day/night/weather system
- Large-distances trips between harbours (open sea missions)
- Multiplayer
- Walkthrough options on all new ships
- Mid-mission save function
- Visible damage on ships after a collision
- New navigation instruments, like a depth meter
- Advanced towing and mooring rope operations
- Complex and challenging missions, like chasing other ships, container loading, fire-fighting, rescue operations
- Three brand new exciting sailing areas: San Francisco, Southampton/Solent incl. Cowes, and Marseille
- At least nine new vessels, under which several ferries, a hovercraft, a massive container ship, an offshore drilling rig, an oil tanker, a rescue boat and a jet-ski
- Two cranes for container loading and unloading, which can be controlled by the player
Last updated on August 14, 2015
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Ship Simulator 2008 Summary
Platforms:
PC Windows
Developer: VSTEP
Publisher: Lighthouse Interactive
Ship Simulator 2008 System Requirements
PC / Windows
Recommended: Pentium 4 3 GHz, 1 GB RAM, graphic card 256 MB (GeForce FX 5900 or better), Windows XP/Vista
Game Expansions for Ship Simulator 2008
Ship Simulator 2008 Add-On: New Horizons
Expansion
Simulation
March 22, 2008
Ship Simulator 2008 Add-On: New Horizons is an add-on to Ship Simulator 2008 by the VSTEP development team. The extension offers new types of vessels and a further twenty missions to complete. The developers also decided to introduce an additional variant of free gameplay (free-roaming) in multiplayer mode.