Paradox Interactive recently announced details of their upcoming title Ship Simulator Extremes. Developed by VSTEP, Ship Simulator Extreme puts the player behind the controls of a wide variety of vessels, in many different locales, and presents them with many authentic missions. Missions include things like taking on illegal whalers in the Antarctic, sailing a half-million-ton supertanker through a bad storm, or helping to evacuate a distressed cruise liner. Missions are based on actual real-world events.
The concept of sailing a giant boat has always been fascinating. All of us sort of grew up knowing instinctively that, given enough need, we could get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle and figure out how to go somewhere. That’s not really the case with something like a commercial superfreighter. I’ve actually stood on the bridge of a large freighter and there was nothing even remotely familiar other than the huge wheel. How to make it move? Forget it.
The appeal of something like this and other real-world sims (like Flight Simulator) is that it gives us the chance to do something we never thought we’d be able to do. It’s easy to forget how magical computers are, until you sit down at your keyboard and fire up something like Ship Simulator. Suddenly, you are experiencing something you’ve never done before, and probably never will get to do.
Ship Simulator Extremes comes out on August 24th for $39.95.
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