''Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II'' is a

flight simulation A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and the environment in which it flies, for pilot training, design, or other purposes. It includes replicating the equations that govern how aircraft fly, how they rea ...

video game and the sequel to ''

A-10 Tank Killer ''A-10 Tank Killer'' is a 1989 combat flight simulation video game for DOS developed and published by Dynamix. An Amiga version was released in 1990. The game features an A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft. Following the success of ''Red Baron' ...

'', which was directed by

Frank Evers (CEO) Francis "Frank" Anthony Evers (born 1965) is an Irish & American businessman, the CEO of INSTITUTE/The Story Institute, and the president of Evergreen Pictures and Girl Culture Films. Early life Evers was born to Francis Anthony Evers ( Frank Ev ...

. Both games were made by

Dynamix Dynamix, Inc. was an American developer of video games from 1984 to 2001, best known for the flight simulator ''Red Baron'', the puzzle game '' The Incredible Machine'', the '' Front Page Sports'' series, ''Betrayal at Krondor,'' and the online ...

and

Sierra On-Line Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (formerly On-Line Systems and Sierra On-Line, Inc.) was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1979 by Ken and Roberta Williams. The company is known for pioneering the graphic adventure game genre, ...

produced Silent Thunder. It was made for

Amiga Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16- or 32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and significantly improved graphi ...

and

DOS DOS is shorthand for the MS-DOS and IBM PC DOS family of operating systems. DOS may also refer to: Computing * Data over signalling (DoS), multiplexing data onto a signalling channel * Denial-of-service attack (DoS), an attack on a communicatio ...

platforms. In the game, the player takes the role of an American

A-10 Thunderbolt II The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is a single-seat, twin-turbofan, straight-wing, subsonic attack aircraft developed by Fairchild Republic for the United States Air Force (USAF). In service since 1976, it is named for the Republic ...

aircraft pilot who fights in various campaigns across the world.

Reviews

Gamespot review, Chris Hudak, scored the game 8.5/10 and lauded the game calling it "a wicked, clean, no-B.S. combat sim with enough options and realism to hold the serious gamer's interest." Other reviews include: *PC Joker Mar, 1996 - 86 out of 100 *

GameSpot ''GameSpot'' is an American video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games. The site was launched on May 1, 1996, created by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein. In addition ...

May 01, 1996 - 85 out of 100 *

Gameplay Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games. Gameplay is the pattern defined through the game rules, connection between player and the game, challenges and overcoming them, plot and pla ...

Jun, 1996 - 84 out of 100 *PC Action Mar, 1996 - 83 out of 100 *PC Player (Denmark) 1996 - 83 out of 100 *

PC Games A personal computer game, also known as a PC game or computer game, is a type of video game played on a personal computer (PC) rather than a video game console or arcade machine. Its defining characteristics include: more diverse and user-dete ...

(Germany) Mar, 1996 - 82 out of 100 *Power Play (Germany) Mar, 1996 - 80 out of 100 *Computer Gaming Magazine Jan 13, 1999 - 80 out of 100 *

PC Gamer ''PC Gamer'' is a magazine and website founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc. The magazine has several regional editions, with the UK and US editions becoming the best selling PC games ma ...

(Windows) Jun, 1996 - 70 out of 100 *World Village Gamer Zone 1996 - 60 out of 100 * PC Player (Germany) (Windows) May, 1996 - 3 Stars 60% *High Score (Windows) Aug, 1996 - 2 out of 5 *

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(Windows) Jun, 1996 - 2 Stars 40%

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* {{Dynamix 1996 video games Flight simulation video games North America-exclusive video games Video games developed in the United States Video games set in Asia Video games set in South America Video games set in South Korea Dynamix games Single-player video games

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