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- Armored fist -  
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Altough there have been plenty
of simulations in the past most of them used vector graphics in which 3D
objects could be scaled and rotated according to your position relative
to the object. In the beginning computers simply weren't powerfull enough
to produce realistic graphics using these sort of graphics. Novalogic introduced
a new type of graphics composed of voxels a bit of a midway solution between
vector and pixel graphics. The first game introduced was called comanche,
a helicopter sim, and this game is a tank simulator called armored fist.
The game's main tank is the M-1 Abrams tank but there are a few others that
you can drive as well including an M-3 Bradley and a Soviet T-80. You can
choose to play a single battle or a campaign and each will let you select
wether to play as the east or the west which is a nice touch that many simulations
never have. The single mission is pretty straightforward but the campaign
is a lot more involved and stretches out several mission after another.
You don't have to do too much work here if you want because a lot of the
game is more arcade oriented so you can hop in a tank and start blasting
away. Not all enemies are landbased as you'll encounter anti-tank helictopers
like the hind and apache as well.
Using voxels the terrain is much more varied than with traditional vector
games because polygons are basically flat and you'll have to use a lot of
them to create terrain. This gives the game quite a unique feel as being
a landbased vehicle a tank can use terrain to it's advantage. There are
some problems though as the voxels can get very chunky up close and I once
saw one of them nearly the size of my own tank which is a bit unrealistic
to say the least. Another nice touch are the night missions in which you'll
have to drive in darkness towards your mission goals.
Personally I was never much into simulations because they often require
a lot of time to get into. When armored core was released I did really want
to play it because of the good things I heard. After playing it though I
had some mixed feelings and there's some bugs in the game that make it less
fun to play like the bad targeting system. Don't expect a true simulation
here though because it's quite action oriented but good tank games aren't
plentyfull so give it a go if you like that sort of thing.
Overal rating: 7/10
Erde Kaiser
Armored fist was released for one system here are some notes:
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Released
in 1994.
Be sure to get the small guide about the control keys which you can
use or you'll find yourself lost in the controls. |
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Date added |
Nov-16-2007 14:05 |
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Armored fist |
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Developer |
Novalogic
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Novalogic
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First released |
1994 |
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Genre |
Simulation
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Download |
MS-DOS, filesize: 5975 Kb
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Manual |
No manual available
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Solve / Docs |
No solve available
Get ingame keys here
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