

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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Character
Plot-driven, unpretentious, grave and earnest.
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Developer
- Brainbox Games, Hip Games
- Publisher
- KISS ltd, Funbox Media Ltd, Groove Games
- Released
- November 18, 2003
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Third person
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 2
- Time to beat
- 2 h main story
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