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Sail Simulator 2010 for PC reviewed by Harry Neary. Game supplied for review by Paradox Interactive

I'm a cynical old cove and when presented with a game that has packaging clearly designed to give a false impression I'm very wary. Sail Simulator 2010 aka Sail Simulator 5 tries that old trick of stealing the font from another franchise to ride on its coat-tails. Here the font is from Microsoft's long running Flight Simulator series and the casual observer might be forgiven for thinking this sailing game was from the same stable, harbour, airport or whatever mixed metaphor leaves me without too much egg on my face.

Sail Simulator 2010 isn't very good. At least as a game. For experience sailors with unusual powers of mouse control it might be a great aid to training, but we're a game site and we review games. Sail Simulator 2010 is actually hardly a game.