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Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: MC_Honky on November 28, 2003, 05:38:18 PM: Lot's of fun memory's with the orgional. Here's the press release:

SAN FRANCISCO - November 26, 2003 - Ubisoft™, one of the world's largest videogame publishers, today announced that it has officially ceased production on Harpoon IV and has chosen not to release the title.

"Ubisoft is committed to making the best military simulation games possible, and unfortunately, the Harpoon IV project wasn't meeting this goal. In our judgment, the product quality could never reach a level that meets or exceeds consumer expectations," said Tony Kee, vice president of marketing, Ubisoft. "We will never intentionally ship a product that is sure to disappoint our discerning customer base."

While the game will not be finished or published by Ubisoft, discussions are underway to license the source code to a third-party group within the community in order to finish the game. Information regarding this development will be available soon at the game's community website harpoon4.ubi.com.
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: Otto on November 28, 2003, 06:12:10 PM: That game starts and stops more than my old 1971 Toyota.
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: Pongo on November 28, 2003, 07:27:05 PM: If they sold so many when you needed a masters degree in boot disks to even play the thing imagine how many they could sell now.
idgits.
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: Animal on November 28, 2003, 07:52:17 PM: I dont know. Ubisoft has a reputation of releasing a good amount of top notch games recently, such as Rainbow Six 3 (XBox), Prince of Persia 3 (XBox), IL2 & FB, etc, so it would make no sense to ruin it by releasing half assed software.

I rather more companies have better quality control, than release crap.

Remember Gunship!
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Post by: Curval on November 28, 2003, 07:57:49 PM: Disappointed. Harpoon was my first gaming addiction.

..and lol to Pongo. Been there.
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Post by: ygsmilo on November 28, 2003, 10:09:54 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Pongo
If they sold so many when you needed a masters degree in boot disks to even play the thing imagine how many they could sell now.
idgits.

Thats got to be the best comment I have read on this board in a while,,,

Thats the first computer game I ever played. Started out with the box game, used to drive my wife crazy as I turned the living room into the north sea :)
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: Pongo on November 29, 2003, 02:45:11 AM: Sneak a knox out of the formation and light up all its radars..the stupid commies would fire every thing they had at the poor bugger and then you could hit em hard...
My knox class captains didnt think much of my tactics.
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Post by: Sixpence on November 29, 2003, 04:00:42 AM: Whew!, I thought you meant Harpoon ale.
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: Sundiver on November 29, 2003, 09:14:14 AM: Who still has the original or HarpII? I'll buy a copy of either. I lost mine years ago. Can't count the number of hours lost to that game.
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: Sox62 on November 29, 2003, 09:22:30 AM: I remember my first PC....12mhz 286.I thought,I can't leave the store without a game,so I bought Harpoon.It locked up EVERY TIME in the first mission no matter what I tried.

Frustrated,the next day I looked over some more games,and purchased "Their Finest Hour-The Battle of Britain",and I've been a flight sim guy ever since.
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: Nilsen on November 29, 2003, 12:18:52 PM: Harpoon4 may be released by someone else later, ill just enjoy the good old harpoon3 until 4 is released by someone.
Title: Harpoon I
Post by: Saintaw on November 29, 2003, 12:25:26 PM: Aw, loved that game , one of the 1st I played... and i STILL have it on my harddrive, with all the scenario packs :)
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: BlckMgk on November 29, 2003, 02:00:37 PM: Yeah Harpoon online, via AOL, along with Air Warrior on AOL where probably my first multiplayer games... omg... I loved those games..

I recently was looking for harpoon, and stumbled across #4, its a shame that they're not going to release, I was hoping to actually get back into the naval strategy...

Thanks for the info..
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: Nilsen on November 29, 2003, 02:58:08 PM: Harpoon2 and the updated harpoon3 rank among the best modern naval games out there when it comes to realism. It may not offer any eye-candy, but from my experiences with real naval simulators its fairly accurate.

We used something similar at the naval academy, and i've read somewhere that the US navy also used it for a while.
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Post by: Charon on November 29, 2003, 02:58:24 PM: Yeah, this sucks. They are, apparently, turning the code over to somebody though.

Charon
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Post by: MC_Honky on November 29, 2003, 03:41:55 PM: I went to the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point NY. We had to take a number of Naval Science Classes focusing on Convoy Ops. etc. We used Harpoon in "our Lab" ..we had our instructors create custom scenarios and we were graded on our performance. I know Annapolis used it because we often competed with students there.

If I remember correctly ..the Oscars were a beyatch..

The Russian Saturation attacks reminded me of Red Storm Rising....what a great game- I get excited just thinking about it.
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: Nilsen on November 29, 2003, 03:53:10 PM: Yeah, Red storm rising for commodore64 was REAL great.....to bad it hasnt been ported to win or mac :(
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: MC_Honky on November 29, 2003, 05:21:19 PM: I was refering to "Red Storm Rising" the book.
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: DmdBT on November 29, 2003, 05:22:26 PM: Is the original software, Harpoon I, II, and III still considered copyrighted material? If not, is there any harm in, errmmm, someone hosting it for download?
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: pugg666 on November 29, 2003, 05:45:32 PM: check this site out if your looking to buy a copy

http://www.advancedgaming.biz/agsi.htm
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Post by: BlckMgk on November 29, 2003, 08:31:00 PM: Do any of you still play harpoon... and is there an online version, still?
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: MC_Honky on November 29, 2003, 08:46:09 PM: BlackMagic are you the BlackMagic from the VMF-222 ?
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: Nilsen on November 30, 2003, 04:39:43 AM: DmdBT.... yes i think it is. Harpoon3 is for sale at http://www.harpoon3.com in a modified and very improved version.
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: BlckMgk on November 30, 2003, 11:28:21 AM: Yeah Honky thats me..

Playing the begginer level on Harpoon Classic 2002 Gold, and I can't find any enemy! its been maybe more than 6 years since I played, how do I detect enemy ships? I've sent out patrols with sensors (but kept them passive) and still haven't found anything, I just see yellow circles, with a red square in the middle (i guess a Possible contact) but still nothing..
Title: Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
Post by: MC_Honky on November 30, 2003, 03:28:42 PM: You still fly in the MA ?? I haven't seen you? Old friend here...errr had to change my name...errrr.......