Linux Atomic Battle Tank Game

Here's another linux blog entry covering another nice classic game running on Fedora 8.

Atomic Tanks is a game in which you control an overly-powerful tank and attempt to blow up other highly powerful tanks. Players get to select a number of weapons and defensive items and then attack each other in a turn-based manner. The last tank standing is the winner. More info from here.

Game Play and Objective

Atomic tank game operates on fields and mountains. The objective of this tank game is to throw and shoot a missile against your enemies until they fell down to ground. Shooting the enemies with your missiles takes computational efforts on missile direction, thrust and speed, and trigonometrical angles to completely hit your enemy targets. Missiles comes in many various types. Some of them are heavy in weight, a few missiles are fast in speed, the others covers a wider horizontal bomb craters that also affects the tank ground positioning. You can check out these types of missiles here. The ability to withstand and hit the enemy targets makes you far better than the rest of the enemy tanks. Missile thrust, shotting angle, and speed can be increased and decreased by the player.

Atomic tank game has many optional features. This keyboard driven tank game has the ability to save and load game levels. The tank game offers several computer-based target tank enemies which contributes and increases the difficulty level of the game. The battle grounds and mountain stands in a way that makes the tank game more challenging on launching missile weapons on hidden enemy targets.

Installation and Requirements

Atomic Tank game is part of Fedora Game Project. Atomic Tank game requires a minimum hard disk space. A normal dialup connection would do fine on package dependency downloads and installation. This atomic tank game can be installed via yum on Fedora 8. After a successful tank game installation, the tank game binary is available from Applications > Game > Tank Game.



How to install Atomic Tank Game:

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# yum -y install atanks
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Launch: Alt+F2, atanks

ScreenShots:




You can view more actual game screenshots here.

All in all, this tank game is a nice classic game to have in a linux desktop. Approved for kids and grandmas for being a user-friendly non-audio toxic easy to play tank game.

Enjoy!