Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II
The game simulates the Fairchild-Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II, a very powerful anti-tank aircraft developed for the US Air Force in the 1970s. There are 10 weapons, a lot of friendly and enemy aircraft, and…
Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II is a simulator developed by Dynamix, released 29 February 1996 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II is
Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II is a simulator game developed by Dynamix and released in 1996. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game simulates the Fairchild-Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II, a very powerful anti-tank aircraft developed for the US Air Force in the 1970s. There are 10 weapons, a lot of friendly and enemy aircraft, and ground vehicles available in the 24 flown missions.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 85% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II launched on 29 February 1996, within three weeks of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Pokémon Red Version, Sid Meier's Civilization II and Kirby Super Star. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Pokémon Red Version, Sid Meier's Civilization II, Kirby Super Star.
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