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Postby mr.editor » Mon Jun 23, 2014 2:28 pm

1.
Game was also published by Milestone Software.

2.
Review(-like writing) can be found from:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070624090 ... 8&skip=yes

3. Issues (maybe following should be made into txt and uploaded to game folder?):
- Game has 3 cartoonlike clips - intro, middle part, and extro. For some reason the game don't show those, at least under Win7. Clips can be seen from disc (or mounted image) from:
_driveletter_:\KillerTank\data\clip
or from Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_sthbWRg-A

- It's important to consider that the game corrupts itself. every know and then scripting errors occurs (eg. powerplant needing to be destroyed is invisible and can't be destroyed, disabled powershields do not come down and thus denying progress) and loading previous save do not help - quite often the loads "forget" the situation they were saved on and carry on the bug occurred later in the game.
Only level restart helps and for that there is may be need to use a cheat:
AECHEATS - Cheats enabled
AECLEV XY - Go to level, where X is the campaign number and Y is the mission number
more cheats: http://www.cheatbook.de/files/killtank.htm

- Game also crashes at times (Problem Event Name: APPCRASH error in Windows7 and somehow "learns" to keep crashing at same places or after little playtime).

- to change visual settings for DirectX version of the game (like resolution) one should run kt.exe in game folder, but it is not working under Win7 (it works under WinXP).
The game resolution can be changed in _INSTALLEDPATH_\Killer Tank\data\cfg\default.hps
line:
"resolution=1.000000"

"resolution=1.000000" is 640*480. Changing the value to:
"resolution=2.000000" gives 800*600,
"resolution=3.000000" gives 1024*768 (that is also the max - adding bigger number like 4 gives no result).

- As the game supports Glide, I really suggest using this version - quality improvement is significant. For that, fixed exe is needed from http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/ ... patibility

4.
I'm not sure the news point from http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/article_30879 is the best description of the game. Maybe the better one is from Egon68 nfo:
An evil Russian scientist dreams of world domination, and you're there to
back him back as a pilot of a super-charged tank. Thunder your way through 20
missions, ranging from seek-and-find to all out assaults, espionage, and
defence.

OR
http://www.fxinteractive.com/p006/p006.htm
has decent and more accurate description even after auto-translation into English.

OR (from http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3768516/ ... ll_PC_Game)

An extremely talented and ambitious physicist named Stephen Novotny, who previously worked for a top secret state program, now dreams of world supremacy. He launches a project of his own in the field of spatiotemporal transformations, based on the unofficial results of stolen governmental investigations. The climax of his project will be the creation of a miraculous Time Machine which will bring him absolute power.
The Machine is almost complete; it is already able to create chaotic shifts in time and space. Yet, to become fully functional it needs upgrades and adjustments. Stephen\'s budget has run dry, and he realizes that he cannot continue to work on the project alone. So, he decides to find a partner. He recalls T.J., his one-time pal with a rather dark past.
At the moment T.J. is serving a life sentence in prison for terrorist action. The scientist understands that a villain like this perfectly fits into his plans. Novotny uses a super-tank - one of his hi-tech creations - to rescue T.J. from prison. In return T.J. must become Novotny\'s right hand man and do all dirty work needed to upgrade the Machine to the best of its capabilities. In addition, T.J.\'s role is to terrify the world, bringing destruction to the most important life centres.


5. Additional info:
- walkthrough video for the 1st part of the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXchBohQ33Q
- before mentioned TPB torrent has photos of covers and fan-made readme.txt with additional information. If it would be mine to decide, i'd upload those 5 files from that torrent to legendsworld game folder as well. :)
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Re: Killer Tank

Postby Terje_P » Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:24 pm

Disregard this post.

I should have read your post more accurately.
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Re: Killer Tank

Postby Molitor » Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:40 pm

I guess mr.editor posted these info in order to have them added to the pre-existing game entry.
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Re: Killer Tank

Postby mr.editor » Mon Jun 23, 2014 11:38 pm

update: I uploaded covers and 2 readme files, including mine, to 4shared. Is it possible, if interested, to add those to game folder (I suspect only Egon68 can do that) as I'd prefer not to hold those under my 4shared account?
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Re: Killer Tank

Postby Supernova » Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:22 am

I wonder whether there's any kind of ripped version available around?
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Re: Killer Tank

Postby Meddle » Tue Jun 24, 2014 2:41 am

There is a rip of it.

2001-Nov-16 Killer.Tank-MYTH

However, it's not something I have.
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