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Sub Culture

Windows - 1997

Alt names 海底文明, Dive
Year 1997
Platform Windows
Released in Germany, United States (1997)
Japan (1998)
Brazil, Germany (1999)
Genre Action, Simulation
Theme Managerial, Real-Time, Sci-Fi / Futuristic, Submarine, Trade
Publisher Imagineer Co., Ltd., Ubi Soft Entertainment Software
Developer Criterion Software Group Ltd.
Perspectives 1st-Person, 3rd-Person
4.74 / 5 - 31 votes

Description of Sub Culture

Sub Culture is THE best underwater simulation game I have ever played, bar none (well, except for Archimedean Dynasty perhaps).

In the spirit of mercenary games e.g. Privateer, Sub Culture is an open-ended game allowing players to accept missions or just explore their surroundings. As a freelance mercenary running dangerous missions, you trade goods at the various cities and-- on the side of course-- bring peace to your underwater world where a nasty war is raging between two undersea nations Procha and Bohine. Trading is integral to the game, as you must earn cash to upgrade her equipment. You can make money by prospecting for ore, pearls, and scrap metal, or by completing the missions that advance the plot, which starts off interesting but gets even better as time goes on.

What qualifies this game as a simulation rather than trigger-happy action game is the fact that all objects and creature have been designed using realistic physics models which affect movement through the water. For example, if you stop your sub, you'll drift. This can make it difficult to accurately line up targets, but at the same time it really makes you feel as if you're moving underwater. If your joystick supports force-feedback, the game provides near-perfect immersion: you'll feel collisions shaking the ship and explosions rocking your little sub.

All in all, Sub Culture is a wonderful underwater simulation that is even better than MicroProse's underrated SubWar 2050. It might disappoint arcade fans due to some "lull" periods of relative quiet as you navigate to the waypoints and just taking in the amazing surroundings. For the rest of us, however, and even for reflex-impaired people like me, Sub Culture is a must have. Highly recommended!

Review By HOTUD

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Comments and reviews

Captain Chaos 2024-02-25 0 point

I can get the game to work on either an 86Box virtual machine or the nGlide wrapper, but in either case there is no music in-game, and no cutscenes in 86box either.

Zephon 2024-01-26 0 point

I have the same issue as other commenters:

1. Installing this on Windows 10 works fine with the original (non-rip) ISO when copying all the files from the ISO into a local folder and then using a InstallShield3 or 5 Engine (Is3Engine or Is5launcher) setup.exe from the ReactOS Forums to replace the older one in the Install/Windows/ folder of the ISO. After that the setup runs just fine.

2. The game runs in slow motion on newer CPUs, just like other commenters mentioned. I haven't been able to get any further than this. Has anyone managed to run this flawlessly in Windows 10 without the submarine slowing down to a crawl? It runs fine on a virtual machine like PcEM or x86Box, but not directly on Windows 10

ruki 2024-01-09 0 point

the game runs, from a virtual cd, al works, but i cant save the game... help...

J.D. 2023-10-15 0 point

another game from my childhood, everything went ok, the installation, music and cutscenes works great, until i started playing, the game is slow and very choppy fps, not even dgvoodoo2 program can fix this issues. then i find out it's somehow it's tied to the MHZ speed of the cpu (which is something i never heard of, very weird and unusual for a game) and i'm not risking playing with my cpu setting just to fix one game. so i installed it on my older pc and it works with no issues.

Tank 2023-09-13 1 point

Music is not working. Can I get some help please. Thank you.

Monkeyboy 2022-12-16 1 point

Here's a tutorial I created to play this game in WINE with UBUNTU. I got it working just fine:
https://www.cuevadeclasicos.org/comunidad/temas/jugar-con-wine-en-ubuntu.17219/#post-325213

MasterBlaster 2022-10-15 1 point

Hi WALRUS,
the problem with the slow game is a old timing query by the most Ubi-Soft games. The solution is quite simple. Got under Windows 10 to the settings = system = energy safe option = energy settings = setup for energy safe = extendet option = now go down to the porocessor energy setup = and set the percent to 13% or less, that the main speed from your PC is by 350MHz, than the game runs in normal speed. Is you frequency to high, than the game runs very slow, that is very funny ;-)

Joshua 2021-04-25 1 point

The music wont play at all and cutscenes are missing, controls seem messed up too as I cant change tools nor use the suck-o-matic

Obsti 2020-11-18 4 points

If the turbine/engine sound of your sub annoys you, you can replace it.

Go to the installation directory, subdirectory "waves". Find "PROP3.RAW" and rename it, e.g. to "xPROP3.RAW" as a backup. Then copy the "PROP4.RAW" and rename the copy to "PROP3.RAW". Basically, you replace the PROP3 sound with the PROP4 sound which is much less annoying.

Walrus 2020-09-05 2 points

The game starts, but it is extremely slow. I use nglide 2.10 with a high-spec gaming laptop. Is there any way to play the game at normal speed?

BERSEK 2020-08-28 0 point

The italian and spanish version are missing. The iso version miss those languages.

Atenos 2020-04-21 2 points

I was able to get the game to run under Windows 10 by downloading nglide and playing the SC3DFX application. You can download nglide from http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide

VINZ0R 2019-07-07 -1 point

Doesn't run properly. The ship is all slowed down and in slow-motion. Running 3DFX executable under Windows 10 with nGlide 2.00. Anybody have other suggestions?

TGP 2019-01-14 0 point

Hi! it doesn't work.
If you have doubts, send me an email:

toninilamborghini@gmail.com

thanks

Crimson12 2018-08-25 3 points

Uno de los primeros juegos que terminé.

Snekry 2018-04-23 1 point

the game my childhood

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