Destroyer Command is a naval simulation released by Ubi Soft in 2002 and developed by the now-defunct Ultimation Inc. The game placed the player in command of a destroyer during World War II, featuring both campaigns in the Second Battle of the Atlantic as well as the Pacific War. One of the touted features was the ability to play against owners of Silent Hunter II online, allowing both destroyer and U-Boat commanders square off against each other. A simulation is an imitation of some real device or state of affairs. ... Ubisoft Entertainment (formerly Ubi Soft) is a computer and video game publisher and developer headquarted in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and manouverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers (originally torpedo boats, later submarines and aircraft). ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb. ... The Second Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of World War II, running from 1939 right through to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, and was at its height from mid-1940 through to about the end of 1943. ... The Pacific War, which is known in Japan as the Greater East Asia War and in China as the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (kang-Ri zhanzheng, literally Resist Japan War), occurred in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in Asia. ... A WWII U-boat combat simulation from Ubi Soft for Windows 95/98/ME. It was originally being developed by Aeon Electronic Entertainment, the developers of Silent Hunter, but they had to leave the project unfinished, and Ultimation Inc. ... U-boat is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives October 1939. ...

Unfortunately, the game was released in a very buggy and clearly unfinished state. Certain crew stations did not function, and the game crashed when the player attempted to use the in-game vehicle viewer due to a particular .DLL file being installed to the wrong directory. Worst of all, the multiplayer interoperability with Silent Hunter II was also buggy and highly unstable. The game was critically panned, receiving a score of 2.5 ("Terrible") from GameSpot and was received with mixed reactions from naval enthusiasts. A computer bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from working correctly or produces an incorrect result. ... A crash in computing is a condition where a program (either an application or part of the operating system) stops performing its expected function and also stops responding to other parts of the system. ... In computer science, a library is a collection of subprograms used to develop software. ... Multiplayer is a mode of play for computer and video games in which multiple people can play the same game at the same time. ... The GameSpot Portal provides access to both textual and multimedia content. ...