Reviews

Intriguing one this one, clearly not a top selling strategy game, no magazine reviews, no recorded advertising or press mentions, but also certainly a commercial release and, like most even passable strategy games, a good rating on WoS.
And... its OK. Nice premise, salvaging shipwrecks in the Carribean, some strategy required, some nostalgia - 80p for a gallon of fuel anyone? - and a few boat pictures. Search for treasure is an 'action' sequence as you move a tiny cross around in the sea seeking little pixels on the sonar. These are few and far between and movement in your search is slow to the point of tedious, interpreted in the instructions as
"100% machine code for superfast action"
A very nice creative concept for an absorbing strategy game but not brilliantly delivered.

Upon loading the game and choosing a difficulty level*, you're presented with a please wait message and a suitably lengthy wait. That's never a good sign and so it proves. Despite the interesting premise, the game was just too slow to hold my attention for long.

*Despite opting for the easiest difficulty level and hiring the best boat and crew I could afford, I ran into trouble with the oxygen equipment about 10 seconds after leaving port and was forced to return!