Arcticfox

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Description

In 2005, aliens have taken over Antarctica. You are sent in to combat them with the new super tank, the Slye-Hicks MX-100, Codename: Arcticfox.

Arcticfox is a futuristic-based 3D tank simulation game where your overall goal is to destroy the invading aliens' main fortress before Arcticfox is destroyed.

Enemy targets come in all sorts of shapes and sizes: planes, tanks, recon sleds and other important targets such as communication towers, atmosphere converters, etc. Your state-of-the-art killing machine is equipped with a cannon, guided missiles and mines at your disposal in addition to radar and forward/aft view-screens to detect your enemy advances.

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Alternate Titles

• "Arctic Fox" -- Alternate spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Gameplay Feature: Targeting system
• Games with classical music

User Reviews

3-D POV simulator, but more strategic than arcade, AI ahead of its time, and still challenging and surprising after all these years.	Commodore 64	Jim Dohring (9)
A futuristic Tank Simulation introduced ahead-of-its-time-techniques	DOS	Indra was here (20921)
Different	Amstrad CPC	Neville (3024)

Critic Reviews

Info	Commodore 64	Jan, 1987		90
Info	Amiga	May, 1986		90
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Commodore 64	Feb, 1987	8 out of 10	80
Popular Computing Weekly	Amiga	Jul 10, 1986		75
64'er	Commodore 64	Mar, 1987	9 out of 15	60
The Games Machine (UK)	DOS	Oct, 1987	58 out of 100	58
The Games Machine (UK)	Amstrad CPC	Sep, 1988	55 out of 100	55
The Games Machine (UK)	ZX Spectrum	Aug, 1988	46 out of 100	46
Sinclair User	ZX Spectrum	Jul, 1988	45 out of 100	45
Happy Computer	Amiga	Nov, 1985	Unscored	Unscored

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Playing on an Amiga emulator?	1	xroox (3970) Sep 17, 2007

Trivia

Copy protection

The PC version of Arcticfox features on-disk copy protection. Should the copy protection check fail, the title screen would load but any attempt to start the game or enter the enemy preview mode and the game will return right back to the title screen.

Graphics

Arcticfox is one of the few PC titles that supports 16 colors exclusively in Tandy mode.

Awards

• Computer Gaming World
  • November 1996 (15th anniversary issue) – #138 in the “150 Best Games of All Time” list

Additional information contributed by Neville