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Fire Power (also Firepower) is a military tank action game developed by Silent Software for the Amiga. It was released in 1987 and published by MicroIllusions and Activision . Ports were released for the Apple IIGS , the Commodore 64 [ 1 ] and for MS-DOS in 1988.
Reign of Fire is a 2002 action-adventure game published by BAM! Entertainment. It is based on the 2002 film of the same name, in which dragons have annihilated the majority of the human race, and the survivors attempt to fight back using scavenged military hardware. The plot of the game, however, differs significantly from the film.
AllGame was more positive than most reviews, praising the game's use of graphics and sounds to create an involving experience, stating "I was amazed at the detail of the 3D environments, the use of color, and the multiple camera angles available. You actually feel like you're in a tank. I like it. As realistic as the graphics are, sound is even ...
The game is set during the Yugoslav wars of 1991–1995. The player is a Russian volunteer tank commander who is there to aid the Serbs. The player can use the T-72B (Ob'yekt 184), the T-55A (Ob'yekt 137G) and the T-34-85. The game has realistic physics, including the tank engine's complexity being simulated as well.
In the aftermath, many SPI staff members left or were let go. Rival game company Avalon Hill hired some of them, and formed them into a subsidiary, Victory Games. One of their releases, Open Fire, was designed by ex-SPI designer Gerard Christopher Klug, with cover art by James Talbot, and was published in 1988. [2]
Tank! Tank! Tank! is a spiritual successor to Tokyo Wars (1996), an older Namco arcade game that also involved tanks shooting enemies. [5] It was programmed for the Namco System ES1, a Linux-powered arcade system board. [6] According to Radio Nikkei, the game underwent a troubled development cycle. [7] Namco Bandai Games demonstrated Tank! Tank!
Between two and four human and computer-controlled opponents each control one stationary tank in a two-dimensional playfield of randomly generated mountainous terrain. The aim of the game is to destroy the other tanks by shooting, utilizing indirect fire. The game has 70 weapons and 13 types of shield, ranging from simple to the elaborate.
Hovertank One is set during a nuclear war. In Hovertank One, the player controls Brick Sledge, a mercenary hired by an unknown organization (referred to by the game as the "UFA") to rescue people from cities under the threat of nuclear attack (largely political activists or scientists), both by the government and by large corporations, but the cities are also full of mutated humans, strange ...