Ship Simulator 2008 Demo
The Ship Simulator 2008 Demo consists of just one player ship, the rescue boat, and one small part of the game environment, Cowes. The demo is based on a realistic yacht rescue operation: bad weather, big waves, yacht in trouble, SOS call. You experience a number of new elements we added to the game, like weather changes, emergency flares, environment changes, ship motions on waves, and big bow splashes.
If you enjoyed the demo, we have good news: you will also like the full game! It has 13 more ships, and 6 more sailing areas for example. The full game contains 30 missions, and even more missions are added almost daily on the Ship Simulator forum.
More features of the full game, other than what you can experience in the demo:
- Dynamic ocean waves, with realistic ship motions
- Long distance travels , open ocean voyages between ports
- Visible damage system
- Thirty new complex and challenging missions
- Extensive day, night, and weather systems
- Three new environments: San Francisco, Southampton/Cowes/Solent, and Marseille
- Six new ships, each with walkthrough functionality and interactive bridge controls
- Controllable container crane
- Advanced vector graphic sea chart based on realistic 3D seabed models, with full-screen display option, transparency setting, and level-of-detail on text & depth readings
- Advanced damage system showing dents and holes in the ships after severe collisions
- Free-roam mode where players can choose a ship, an environment, set all weather, day & time parameters and get sailing
- Realistic bow splash water, with support from an advanced physics simulation model
- Extensive mapping options for keys and joystick buttons
- Advanced rope system, which allows you to connect and disconnect player ships to other ships or mooring boulders at will (anchoring is now also possible)
- Icebergs in some missions, which cause damage when you collide with them
And if that wasn‘t enough there are some more features currently in development, which will be added in free patches over the coming months:
- Mid-mission save function
- A system for sinking ships when damaged below the water line
- Advanced system for scoring and ranking in different ship type classes, linked to your on-line profile on the forum
- Two extra player ships: jet-ski and hovercraft
- Additional language versions of the game (French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish and more)
- Set waypoints yourself in free-roaming mode
- Multiplayer functionality, so you can sail around in your favourite environment every day with your Ship Simulator friends
- Mission editor, so you can create your own adventures and share them with your fellow players on the forum
