Desert Thunder2003

Desert Thunder

2003 KISS ltd52Mediocre

Playtime

BriefTypically 2 hours

Playable on

Available on

Game modes

Details

Launch
November 18, 2003
Publisher
KISS ltd
Themes
Action

Overview

Desert Thunder is an arcade-style action tank game for the PC. Ripped from today’s headlines, the storyline immerses players into the heat of a desert-based military conflict. Players will tear through desert, urban and industrial settings in their experimental battle engine, the Abrams M1A6.

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Reception

It is old like me but it is fun for an old fart like me

Plays well on a modern system; only had to manually swap resolution for a modern 1440p widescreen, which took 2 mins with a guide from Steam. The game is crap, looks awful, plays awful, AI woeful, controls awful. But the simple arcade 2000-era action of it makes it a good simple fun game for a blow out of fun. The campaign is set in a Middle Eastern...