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It may have taken five years, but the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed and publicly admired sim games is finally with us. <span id = "game_title">Silent Service II</span> features all the best bites from the first game, as well as a host of original and new doo-dahs.

Digitised graphics and sampled sounds simply confirm the Service as a game which is undoubtedly one of the most detailed, accurate and realistic on the market, but new gamers should be warned that, just like life on a real submarine, it's not all walking, er, action.

No. There's a lot of the old <i>Above Us The Waves</i> stuff with turning off engines to sneak up on enemy warships without alerting their radar. And as for all that tank blowing stuff, I ask you!

MicroProse are indubitably the outright kinds of all things sim, but their policy of increasing the action and minimising the dial-watching as used to such good effect in F-15 Strike Eagle II would be well extended to this particular title.

For gamers wishing to purchase an accurate sub simulation, rest assured, there is absolutely none better. But those expecting to get their torpedoes off straight away would be better to wait for a more accessible equivalent.