Armored Fist 3

by NovaLogic

Product Features

• Command M1A2 Abrams tanks through four campaigns and more than 50 missions
• Create custom battles and share them with friends with the full-featured mission editor
• Explore realistic terrain and effects
• Talk to fellow gamers with a headset using Voice-Over-Net technology
• For up to 32 players online through NovaWorld (requires subscription)

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002EPYK
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: August 1, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,409 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

From the squad-based battles of Delta Force 2 to the helicopter combat of Comanche and air warfare of F-22 Lightning, Novalogic continues to craft war games that tend to offer more in the way of action than simulation. Armored Fist 3, the third title in their tank game series, continues that tradition.

In Armored Fist 3, players command M1A2 Abrams tanks across four campaigns that encompass more than 50 missions of tank combat. A well-designed interface simplifies the often-complex game situations; still, prepare to memorize many keyboard functions, including ones for launching smoke grenades, calling air support, and operating the GPS.

Once players complete the single-player game, Novalogic's online service, Novaworld, offers multiplayer competition (up to 32 players) that allows players to use microphones so they can transmit voice commands to their teammates. Also, a full-featured mission editor lets them create custom battles and share them with fellow Armored Fist 3 players.

Perhaps the biggest gripe with Armored Fist 3 is Novalogic's Voxel Space 32 engine, which eschews the use of the latest 3-D accelerators. Though the software engine supports a dazzling 16 million colors, you'll need at least the minimum requirements just to play at an enjoyable speed, and a much more powerful machine to enjoy Armored Fist 3 at the highest graphical detail. --Doug Radcliffe

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A pretty decent armored cav sim, April 20, 2003

By 

Harold E. Kies (Bangor, Pa. United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Armored Fist 3 (CD-ROM)

Armored fist 3 is a fairly decent game based on the M1A2 Abrahms tank. The game's controls are very easy to understand and the inside of the tank looks awesome. The amount of detail is fairly well displayed seeing as different enemy units require differnt types of ammuunition. Also driving the tank is very important in combat because the enemy can taget the back of the tank and take you out with one shot. The requirements are fairly low, I run it on windows xp and an Nvidia geforce with 32mb and it runs with no problems at all. The graphics are so so if you can imagine the graphics from the first Delta Force you have the graphics from armored fist 3.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Armored Kick, April 1, 2000

By 

Zane (Idaho) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Armored Fist 3 (CD-ROM)

This game is great for for ne one interested in tanks. Withplenty of missions and 4 theaters of operations and tons of differnetsettings of play this game rocks. Admitted this game has a few multiy player clitches but with online updates it will soon be easily solved. In addition to multiplayer play novaworld offers voice over net where you can talk to opponets or allied friends. It also has capture the flag, death match, team death match, red on blue missions and coopertive missions.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Basically Armored Fist 2 ported over to Windows, March 14, 2006

By 

R. L. Hodges (Layton, UT, United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Armored Fist 3 (CD-ROM)

I absolutely loved Armored Fist 2. For Nova Logic's DOS game series, that VoxelSpace engine of theirs was truly ahead of its time and they got a lot of great mileage out of it. So much so that they even came up with a Win32 version of it and ported Comanche 3 over to it as Comanche Gold. Armored Fist 2 for DOS is now ported over as Armored Fist 3 for Windows. So basically, you have AF2 for Windows. The game plays well enough, but I do have one problem with it - sound. Nova Logic has always had the market cornered on fantastic in-game sound. The audio tracks and recordings are always done so well that you really think you're working with experienced military in the tank, cockpit or by your side. Really super-believable audio, perfect, really. In Armored Fist 2 for DOS, you were actually in that tank! Not so with Armored Fist 3, however. They really botched it here. The sound effects are great, but the spoken dialogue audio tracks are shockingly horrible. Amazing for Nova Logic, who usually creates the most believable audio in the industry. In AF3, the spoken dialogue sounds like it was written and performed by some 8th grade programmer working out of his bedroom. Even shareware isn't this bad. I'm amazed Nova Logic even let this one out the door. And the Voxel Space engine for Windows - I'm glad it allowed fantastic games like Armored Fist, Delta Force and Comanche to be ported over to Windows, but Delta Force and Comanche were taken to 3D levels. Armored Fist needed to go 3D very badly, but never did. Because of terrible sound dialogues and the very outdated VoxelSpace graphics engine (very tolerable, just not 3D), 4 stars. By today's standards, it would normally get a 3 for graphics alone. I give it 4 stars instead of 3, however, because this is the last great tank battle simulation we may ever see, and it is a fantastic one regardless, especially since there's no other competing tank sims to choose from. Ask yourself this - are you sick to death of all these shooters yet? Of course you are. We ALL are. Are you listening, Nova Logic? We're shootered to death out here. We're drowning in shooters! Please save us and give us an Armored Fist 4 or Comanche 5 or F-22 Lightning 4. ANYTHING other than these endless shooters shooters shooters! We're sick to death of being force fed years worth of nothing but mindless ground grunt stuff. Not everyone wants to be a jarhead. Run shoot die, run shoot die, run shoot die. Enough already!

Nova Logic: Please - in the name of all that does not suck - bring back the military jet, tank and helicopter simulators that you did better than anyone else, which dominated the very market you once owned! Regain your former glory and give us back the military hardware combat sim!