Blazing Thunder

STORY / GAMEPLAY
The story takes place somewhere in the future where you find yourself in the middle of a tank battle. There are no outstanding features to the game really. Your main goal is to just control your tank around the levels shooting anything that moves, until you reach the end of the level where a large enemy vehicle awaits (a tank, a chopper etc). The further you advance, the better weapons and power-ups you'll collect. Along your way you must also avoid enemy minefields! The game is quite playable but hard enough to last. It's surely fun for a while but it's not as addictive as Ikari Warriors but that doesn't stop Blazing Thunder from being a great little shooter.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The Amiga version has 27 colors on-screen, smooth scrolling, very detailed backgrounds and pretty large sprites. Soundwise, the Amiga version features a good introductory tune and sampled in-game sound effects like enemy cries (differently pitched), cool gunshots, explosions and more. Unfortunately there is no in-game music (much like in the 8bit versions) which is rather awkward for an Amiga game.