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Naval Warfare

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: April 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game after playing Naval Ops:Warship Gunner and found it similar, but different. The game play has the same basic story, has slightly better graphics, and some extra weapons. I prefer the Gunner's scope versus Commander's birds eye view of the battle. The escort ships can be like watching an old 3 stooges show sometimes. Some of the battles ar unrealistically difficilt, while I could pulvarize a "supership" in no time flat with a simple premade ship. Despite thos flaws I am already addicted to it. The play in this game is faster than Gunner's, so it will keep your intrest longer without having the timeless travel through the sectors. I recommend this to anyone looking for a naval battle game that has a love for ships and the high seas.

Good and Addictive!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: June 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because I like war simulation games. I think this game is really easy until you get to the second area then it gets a little harder. But it is still really fun to play. One of my favorite parts of the game is that you can design your own ships, like an aircraft carrier with aircraft or a destroyer. One thing I dont like about it is it has some levels that are really hard and then the next level is really easy. Also i dont like the commander's view because you cant rotate it and because it sometimes gets annoying. Overall i would give this game a 4 1/2. Also i would wait for this game to come down and dont buy it brand new, buy it used for $35 or less.

More mayhem on the high-seas

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Okay...so it takes you a moment to adjust to the story line. But odds are you already played "Gunner", and so have an idea of what you're up against...the whole alternative time/universe thing. With bad guys...only more evil.
Koei kept the enjoyable things about "NOpG", and tossed in escort ships ala AC5. You can still work to improve, modify and customize your own little killing machine fleet. A note here: there's nothing, absolutely nothing in the game that will behoove a player to create the "ultimate" aircraft carrier. You will die, repeatedly.
The scenarios are challenging as they move along; although there's not a great deal to cue a player on how to increase their total rewards...these are vastly important in terms of obtaining a range of upgrades.

G4TV's "X-Play" gave the game a horrid review; likely because the host is utterly clueless on combat games that aren't of the FPS variety. NOC has a few bizarre twists in the story plot (and even more in the bonus scenarios), so it will take some suspension of belief to get a player through. You want a great story, read a book.
Koei has done a fair job trying to extrapolate data on verious weapon system effects and applying them to a video game (a 100cm gun would be hurling a 39 and third inch diamter shell), and you do get to blow the snot out of towns or anything else within reach of your weapons.
Unlocking all of the esoteric goodies can be a time-consuming process, but the end results are great fun. One of the better aspects of the game is the ability to return to previous scenarios/battles and stockpile points by generating victories.
Be cautioned that there is an exceptionally whinney female VO that will get on your nerves...reaching into the screen to make it stop type of get on your nerves.
On the big scale, NOC is a 8 out of 10 for fun, and about a 6 for replay. It's a keeper for those times when you feel the need to unload a few 61cm salvoes.

This game stinks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: May 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I also purchased this game after playing Warship Gunner, a game I found to be immensely entertaining. The first problem I had with the game is that the color doesn't seem to work - I'm playing in black and white! Second, and more important, the game play is terrible. The bird's-eye perspective is so confusing that it makes it so that you have no idea what is going on. Just awful.

Not Up to PS2 Standards

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I normally love strategy games, including naval warfare. For whatever reason, Naval Ops Commander just didn't grab my attention and hold onto it.

You are watching naval battles from a top-down viewpoint. The graphics aren't what the PS2 can offer. You get grey waters, grey boats, and greyish lands. The grey boats steam through the repetitive grey waters, leaving little trails behind them. They fire at the other grey boats, and health bars reduce down to zero. It often comes across more as a 2-D arcade game rather than a strategy game.

The sounds could help lift the game out of this grey world, but they don't. Instead, they are incredibly repetitive and get annoying very quickly. From the lackluster voice acting to the sound selections, you don't get immersed in this world at all. Some voices are so annoying that you are tempted to play on MUTE.

Maybe if there was a plot that compelled you to care about what was happening - but no. The plot is often absent and at times is unbelievable.

You could say, "well it's a strategy game - it doesn't need plot, sound or graphics. The pure strategy component should compel you". On one hand I am all for this point of view. I would gladly play Scrabble, Chess or Go for hours and hours with only the most basic of graphics and no sound at all. But a game that claims to have a story - should. A game that provides sound should make sure those sounds are at least neutral - not so annoying that they make you want to stop playing. A game that attempts to give graphics to make the gameplay easy to organize in your mind should not then give graphics that make things confusing and hard to keep track of.

Even worse, with most strategy games the point is that you learn and build strategies and replay the game multiple times to improve your skills. You don't just play chess once - you play it daily, becoming a better and better chess player. You don't just try Go once. You hold weekly parties with friends and enjoy a relaxing evening with the clicking of stones. With Naval Ops Commander, once you go through the game, there's little incentive to do it again.

Not well recommended.

naval ops commander

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

than you for the product when i contacted you that monday it come so thank mr disipio any more games i whould recomend people buy from you mr. disipio

Terrific Game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great game. I never had so much fun in my life. Everybody in my family loves it.

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