Ship Simulator 2008

Ship Simulator 2008 is, according to Brian Ekberg, an EA Partners initiative designed to take your cargo and transport to the very edge of the galaxy.

What makes it different from anything else on the market is that the range of vessels you have to send in at any given time is more complex. Which, apparently, is a key factor in boarding the battleships and deciding whether to carry them into the thick of the field to leave them or to go overboard, to the heat of battle.

You don’t need a 4x4 carrier to battle these vessels, obviously, but how you fly them to the top is entirely up to you.

Other pilots can be up for the challenge too. There’s no rumble so you’ll have to race as a slower boarding class of ship, and with 20 different ship classes to train, you can get more involved in the battle too.

Perhaps it’s because the controls work a bit more like an analogue stick than a mouse and keyboard in a much more intuitive manner, but if you’re looking for a quick and easy way to deal with ship care and for making sure your fleet is all perfectly fine-tuned, this is a great choice.

You can play solo with a crew of six, or up to eight friends can enjoy a full complement of two player (or one group) games via your computer. There’s an interesting audio package going on under the hood and if you’re looking for more replay value then you’ll certainly appreciate the decision to add a chunky helping of audio tacks.

An acquired taste in the sea is certainly the game’s biggest draw, but for those who are truly ready to sink some serious time into that world, the Enhanced Edition of the game will be right up your street.

That’s because the remaster features full controller support, along with a significant performance boost for the Nintendo Switch Lite when playing this way.

When we reviewed the base game the Nintendo Switch received a significant performance boost that was worth it. The enhanced edition doesn’t simply boost the graphics, but also upgrades the game’s frame rate, visuals, and audio quality.

At 1080p (rather than 30FPS), the improvements are minimal. While this obviously isn’t a big deal if you own the game on the original Nintendo Switch, we did find that the higher resolution bump to 720p did bring a little to the overall image quality.

Luckily, the new HD resolution isn’t quite so bad. The increased resolution is absolutely a result of the studio attempting to include higher resolution textures and an improved draw distance, but it still just feels a little bit disappointing that the full remaster would be missing an option to draw distances more.

Though it is technically possible to do so, we were unable to find any specific improvements between the original Switch release and the Switch release, so we're hoping to see that feature integrated into the new Nintendo Switch versions as well.

The original was one of the best Switch games in its class. It offered excellent visuals and precise control, and the way that Nintendo has re-released this port on modern hardware with new UI and easier access to other players could provide a compelling reason for players to purchase it. It might be that they want to have more options for porting the game over, but the fact that you can't upgrade to the new release just deprives you of an entirely different experience.

At the very least, this should be a good decision on Nintendo's part, but until then, we can only speculate about what other changes could be made to the new versions. There have been numerous audio issues, and there have been significant changes made to cutscenes in the original release, as well as some other new content that didn't work on the Nintendo Switch version. It's possible that Nintendo may change the audio quality in this version and release it separately for that matter, but this has yet to be confirmed.

If you've been playing Switch games on the console for years now, then you know the disappointing state of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Even though it's an incredible game with a lot to offer, it's the problem with the release of the Nintendo Switch version of Breath of the Wild that really makes it such a major disappointment. While Nintendo still makes the most out of the console, there are still times when the game simply looks and runs poorly on the Switch, and it's not going to help matters when the game was originally released for the Wii U.

This lack of polish is especially upsetting to some fans who are still enjoying Breath of the Wild, and for others, the lack of content and the game world are the major causes for disappointment. The biggest reason for that is because The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was a huge financial success at the time of its release, and the Wii U was quickly followed by its successor.