Desert Thunder
Developer: BrainBox Games
Publisher: Groove Publishing
WeaponsYour M1A6 tank uses several 120 mm shells:
- Basic Shell
- High Impact Shell
- Hellfire Shell
- EMP Shell
- Homing Shell
You also have a 20 mm minigun, which fires (alt-fire) three types of ammo:
- Basic Round
- Armor Piercing Round
- Explosive Tip Round
You'll find that you normally use your main turret to destroy enemy tanks and buildings, and your minigun to swat away the pesky terrorist infantry.During the missions, you'll have several enemies and hazards with which to contend:
- Mines
- Air Strikes (note: you cannot destroy the MiGs)
- Light and Heavy Infantry
- Gun Emplacements
- Russian T-72 Tank
- Russian T-90 Tank
- SHTURM (Mobile Anti-tank Vehicle)
- Russian GOLIATH Super Tank
GraphicsWhile Desert Thunder uses Unreal technology, the mission level graphics are bland and repetitive. You can see this for yourself in our picture gallery. Some of this is surely due to the fact that you're over there in the Middle East, in a desert, fighting terrorists. Still, I would have liked to have seen some more imagination put into things like the structures and other constructs.Sound/MusicNot much happening here either, I'm afraid. As a bargain-level game, it appeared clear to me that there was simply not much effort put into creating an audio environment to enhance gameplay. Specific things I noted were a lack of enough discrimination between the explosion sounds from the different shell types, lack of thematic background music, and lack of enemy infantry 'chatter', all of which would have helped the game.