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Sands of Fire

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...................................................Russ Whitney

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your mission.  If you’re not lucky and 
your tank takes too much damage during a 
mission you can abandon it and take over 
the least damaged tank in your unit.  (I 
guess the crew that was running it stands 
out in the sand waiting for a bus back to 
HQ.) Sands of Fire™ is well paced, easy to play and generally enjoyable.  I found the 
foreground graphics of the interior of the 
tank were well done and the sound effects 
reasonable.

There were many things about Sands of 
Fire™ that I would like to see improved 
however.  First, I noticed there was no way 
to quickly scan the horizon.  I would like 
to see an additional view that allows the 
player to poke his head out of the turret 
and take in the scenery in 90 degree 
increments.  Currently you must rotate 
your turret to see what’s out there and 


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that can be slow. I would also like to see an improvement in the graphics outside the tank.  Other tanks don’t look very realistic and some seem to be less than accurate depictions of the real thing.  The terrain is also very boring and seems to be little more than a flat plain. Another thing that bothered me is the fact that the German tanks seemed too easy a target.  A single Panzer VI (the infamous “Tiger” tank) should have been difficult to defeat even for several Shermans, yet they seemed little more dangerous than an other.  

Changing the level of realism to “Expert” didn’t appear to improve the enemy’s lethality either.  The German tanks don’t fire very often 
either.  The end 
result is that the 
game becomes rather