Challenge your friends online with New Horizons, the official add-on for the hit game Ship Simulator 2008. Try your hand at sailing a luxury cruise liner, a classic yacht or feel the impact of the waves as you guide your fishing vessel home through a storm! New Horizons offers new highly realistic environments and adds eight exciting new vessels for your sailing pleasure. Includes all new missions and free roaming multiplayer mode too!

The Ship Simulator 2008 New Horizons requires a valid installation of Ship Simulator 2008.

• Dynamic ocean waves, with realistic ship motions
• 20 new complex and challenging missions involving new vessels and new environments.
• Extensive day, night, and weather systems
• New environments: San Francisco, Southampton/Cowes/Solent, and Marseille
• 8 new ships, each with walkthrough functionality and interactive bridge controls
• Controllable container crane missions
• Advanced vector graphic sea chart based on realistic 3D seabed models, with full-screen display option, transparency setting, and level-of-detail on text & depth readings
• Advanced damage system showing dents and holes in the ships after severe collisions
• Free-roam mode where players can choose a ship, an environment, set all weather, day & time parameters and go sailing in their preferred conditions
• rope system, which allows you to connect and disconnect player ships to other ships or to mooring boulders at will (anchoring is now also possible)
• Addition of icebergs which cause damage when you collide with them
• A system for sinking ships when damaged below the water line
• Advanced system for scoring and ranking in different ship type classes, linked to your on-line profile on the forum
• Including a free mission editor to create your own adventures and share them with your fellow players on the forum
• Online multiplayer free-roaming action, including towing