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688 Attack Sub

Review

This realistic submarine simulation challenges you to command multiple stations or delegate to your crew across ten Cold War missions.

688 Attack Sub was developed by Electronic Arts and first released for MS-DOS in 1989, which is the original platform and earliest commercial release.

About 688 Attack Sub

688 Attack Sub is a simulation of Cold War era naval operations, offering a choice between American and Soviet submarines across ten distinct missions. Its interface prioritizes functional representations of onboard systems, with detailed control panels forming the primary visual component.

Players manage various stations such as sonar, navigation, and weapons, though the option to assign these tasks to a virtual crew is available. This delegation system allows for a focus on specific roles. The graphical presentation occasionally shifts from the standard instrument panels to display digitized photographs of surface vessels and personnel.

688 Attack Sub Screenshots

10 images
Title screen
Mission selection screen
U.S. control room
Soviet control room
U.S. torpedo room
Overhead map and U.S. sonar controls
Contour map and U.S. navigation control
U.S. damage screen
U.S. periscope view of a torpedoed ship
Not every mission is successful :)