Old Gamers Never Die: The U.S.-China Undersea War Continues in 'Cold Waters'
A Chinese frigate sinks in the East China Sea after a hit from a Mark-48 ADCAP torpedo. All game design elements in these screenshots are © 2017 Killerfish Games Hello, again, Dear Reader. As you can tell, I am still playing the U.S. vs. China South China Sea 2000 campaign in Cold Waters, a submarine simulation from Killerfish Games that its designers tout as the spiritual heir to MicroProse's 1988 classic Red Storm Rising. As in that sub sim — which was designed by Sid Meier and is based on Tom Clancy's 1986 novel about a conventional war between the Soviet Union and NATO — Cold Waters depicts undersea warfare in an alternate timeline with three different iterations of the Cold War turning hot at three distinct periods; 1968, 1984, and 2000. A beautiful shot of USS Jefferson City, my third command in this deadly war between the U.S. and China. Since this is my first serious attempt at playing a Campaign game, I think I am holding my own even though I am not winning outright