[Sonarman]

It's really an unfair comparison given the time difference between these two games, Silent Service will always hold a special pace with me as it was the first game I ever bought on the C-64 (Ouch... 23 years ago!) and it really set the template for the genre a true classic amazing considering it fitted into a mere 64 KB of memory. Silent Hunter was also remarkable in that it was released shortly after what many considered the ultimate subsim Dynamix "Aces of the Deep" and yet it still managed to hold its own, largely thanks to the excellent graphics, perfect atmosphere and detailed recreation of the TDC, both superb games.

Possibly a more interesting and closely fought poll would I suspect be Silent Hunter vs Silent Hunter II it would be interesting to see if the graphics of the 3D sequel and it's Atlantic environment held sway against the original game's general brilliance.