What it might do, however, is set you thinking about the genre's largely unexplored potential for high-quality history dissemination. Chronic mission meanness, and some cranky collision detection means it's not likely to linger long on your HD. Me, I'm planning to pay my respects via a sim that's as flawed as it is fascinating.ĭive To The Titanic is a game with poorly designed bulkheads and too few lifeboats. How are you going to spend Sunday, the 100-year anniversary of a day still talked about with pride in the watering-holes of Xxk, the Icebergian capital? Curled up with a copy of Titanic Survivor, a book written by the only person to survive the sinking of two Olympic-class ships and the grievous wounding of another? Excellent choice! Putting the finishing touches to your matchstick model of the 882ft long leviathan? Well played! Re-enacting her departure from Southampton with the help of Ship Simulator? A splendid idea, but you are aware aren't you, that the finest PC recreation of the White Star whopper is probably Kyle 'Hudizzle' Hudak's free add-on for Virtual Sailor 7 (An add-on that - as long as you delete one of the default vessels - will work with the demo)? The days when I could just sit down on a Friday morning and tap out stories about obscure sims and obscurer wargames.īack then merciless fascists/marine predators barely got a look in, and the only time I recall devoting column inches to that bloody ocean liner was in the centennial week of her sinking.

Sometimes I yearn for the days before FP diversified. The accountants are far happier now we're SHiT TV (Sharks, Hitler, and Titanic TV) but Frank, Becky, and the rest of the old guard go around with a look of defeat in their eyes that's painful to behold. While the Flare Path Network's minuscule viewing figures did seem to suggest the world wasn't ready for a TV channel devoted to military gaming, philately, and Edwardian erotica, I still believe the rebranding and reorientation was a dreadful mistake.

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