Red Storm Rising
1988 · MicroProse
Source book
- Red Storm Rising — Tom Clancy
Sid Meier's submarine sim of the novel's war, not a tour of its chapters.
Platforms
Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, PC-98
Fidelity
MicroProse, 1988, co-designed and co-programmed by Sid Meier. Based on Clancy's 1986 novel. You command a US attack submarine in the Norwegian Sea theater of that war. Commodore 64 first, then Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, and PC-98.
Read first?
01
When to read first
Read the novel first if you want its characters and the wider war before you only see the undersea slice.
02
When playing first is fine
Play first. You get the campaign the book is about, from a periscope, not the novel's full cast and plot. The book still has its own story.
03
Why
A sim of a war is not a retelling of the novel set in that war. You can play the boats and still be surprised by the people.
Source
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Storm_Rising_(video_game)
The call above is an editorial reading of that public page. If the page and this note disagree, believe the page.
