Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf

Informations générales

Date de sortie

1 février 1992

Plateformes

DOS • Amiga • Super Nintendo Entertainment System • Game Boy Advance • Sega Mega Drive/Genesis • Super Famicom • BlackBerry OS

Note IGDB

★★★☆☆ (66 votes)

Genres

Shooter • Strategy

Thèmes

Action • Warfare

Développeur

Electronic Arts

Éditeur

Amiga • Electronic Arts • Gremlin Interactive • Ocean Software • Tec Toy

Modes de jeu

Single player

Perspectives du joueur

Bird view / Isometric

Langues

Classifications d'âge

U.S. & CA

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Histoire

After terrorist leader General Kilbaba has seized control of an unnamed "small but wealthy" Gulf emirate, overthrown the monarchy and installed himself as dictator, the United States sends a lone helicopter to destroy his army in a series of swift strikes. The game's plot was felt by commentators to be a thinly disguised reference to the Gulf War, while comparisons were drawn between Kilbaba and Saddam Hussein, and between the game's unnamed desert setting and Iraq

Résumé

Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf, commonly known as Desert Strike, is a shoot 'em up video game released by Electronic Arts (EA) in February 1992 for Sega's Mega Drive. The game was later released on several other formats such as the SNES, including a much upgraded version for the Amiga home computer. The game was inspired by the Gulf War and depicts a conflict between an insane Middle Eastern dictator, General Kilbaba, and the United States. The player controls a lone Apache helicopter and attempts to destroy enemy weapons and installations, rescue hostages and capture enemy personnel, while managing supplies of fuel and ammunition.