| Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm | 
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| From: Greenwave
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (10 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2038
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.3
MPN: DCASPC0522
Model: DCAS-PC 0522
UPC: 094922928634
EAN: 0094922928634
ASIN: B0017S2S0Y
Release Date: August 19, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Career Mode (Realistic and challenging simulation for gamers and Deadliest Catch fans) | | • | Missions (Gamers experience the hard core Bering Sea life, including participation in United States Coast Guard search and rescue missions and ice flow navigation) | | • | Arcade Mini-Games (Allows casual gamers to enjoy fun challenges, including crab boat races and skiff races) | | • | Five Authentic Crab Boats, twenty Real Fishermen (including Edgar and Norman Hansen, Josh and Jake Harris), six Authentic Captains (including Captains Sig Hansen, Phil Harris and Larry Hendricks) and 4,500 lines of recorded character dialogue | | • | Four real harbors |
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Product Description
Experience the thrill of captaining your own boat while searching for undersea riches in Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm for your Windows PC. Battle 40-foot waves, storms, ice and a nearly 100-percent crewmember injury rate on the icy Bering Sea. Select one of 5 real crab boats featured on the Discovery Channel series, or create and customize your own boat. Then choose your own crew from a roster of 20 real crab fishermen. Selecting the wrong boat or crew member can lead to disaster. Lead your fatigued, hungry and hardworking crew in the search for King Crab and Opilio Crab, while battling to secure your catch before other crews get there first. Realism is added with 4 real Bering Sea harbors and 34,000 miles of real Bering Sea coastline created from the United States Geological Survey. Weather and fishing conditions are based on authentic weather data and get worse each season. The ultimate goal is to return safely each season, upgrade your boat and crew, and attempt to break the real-life Captain Sig Hansen's actual lifetime catch of twenty million pounds.
6 Authentic Captains (including Captains Sig Hansen, Phil Harris and Larry Hendricks) 4,500 lines of recorded character dialogue Captain the 370ft. USCG Cutter Mellon 34,000 Miles Actual Coastline 4 Real Bering Sea Harbors (Akutan, Dutch Harbor, King Cove and St. Paul) Interactive Virtual Tour Northwestern Crab Boat 100 Exclusive Crew Videos
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Deadliest Catch September 28, 2008
I love this game. It would not work on my old PC but works great on my new one. The graphics are excellent and it is challenging enough for kids over 40.
 deadliest catch alaskan storm September 21, 2008
I downloaded a trial on discovery.com and the graphics were way beyond my expectations. The download played smoothly on my computer so I bought it. The only bad thing I have to say is it loads kind of slow. This game is easy depending on the difficulty you choose. I love this game I play this game every day.
MORE PLEASE? September 17, 2008
Generally when a simulation game is made for console and then converted to PC (with the exception of top road racing games) a lot is left out and traditional PC sim nuts are left wanting more.
I think there is much room for improvement in Deadliest Catch for those who will literally stay up all night (after night) studying water temperatures, ocean floor topography, bait choice, crew morals, provisions to load on the boat, complex info on other vessel's strings and habits, and basically all the complication of the real thing.
I gave this 3 stars because I'm able to get what I can out of it and I've logged quite a few seasons. It's fun and not overly tedious.. its just too simplistic.
What I really hope is that someone like UBI will buy this license and remake this game in a VASTLY more immersive manner with multi-players working for others (or above players) on ships.
I can also imagine that you can play the Coast Guard at times, throw the hook for a living, search for the best prices on parts and crab sales, start out with a very small boat until you can afford another, have your players gain real experience.
Its better than I thought it would be September 9, 2008
Most cover games are horrible, but this isnt too bad. If I would give it one knock, is its performance. Its not all that graphically spectacular but its very sluggish despite this.
Great Game. September 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The game is great once I got it up and running.
Yes, when I first tried to load the install it took twenty minutes for my computer to recognize it. In fact I had given up twice and thought the disc was bad until I came here and read from other reviews to put the disc in and wait and wait and wait...
Then the game kept freezing on me so I went to the website and followed the directions for updating my NVIDIA drivers. The directions were located in the forums under things you can do if the game is freezing and provided a link. Once I updated the video driver, the game worked perfectly ! I have VISTA, 32, NVIDIA 6150 LE.
If you like games that taking planning and control and repetitive tasks you should like this game. Yes, it can become monotonous, however, this is the kind of game that I find I can continue to come back to time and again.
My main point for this review is to tell others about the technical problems I had and how I solved them, so I will leave the game playing detail and descriptions for others.
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