Tracker

published by Rainbird in 1987, developed by Mindware, running on Atari ST
type: action/reflex, flight, strategy
genre: Science Fiction
perspective: 1st person
player options: single player
languages: eng
4.2/5

Official description

IT'S TRUE. Your great ambition fulfulled. This show draws the single largest audience in the galactic region and tonight, YOU are the star, the focus of attention on a thousand planets.

IT'S REAL. The bright lights that hurt your eyes, the tiny sliver of steel that cocoons you as they strap you in to the skimmer, then noise of the crowd and the cold, impersonal eye of the camera recording what may be your last peaceful moments on any planet.

IT'S HERE. The moment of truth. Many before you have failed in this grotesque parody of a Gladatorial Rome extinct for five thousand years, resurrected here in a new and more terrible form. Your opponent is no mortal of flesh and blood, but a machine controlling a lethal force of Cycloids bent on your destruction. At its heart, no heart at all. Just energy, deadly and efficient in its special form for combat. This is the ultimate wargame. Man versus machine. Man versus Centrepoint. The Undefeated Centrepoint.

IT'S TIME. You ease the skimmer forward cautiously along the trackway. You know better than to rely on simple combat skills. Those contestants die too quick, too easy. You must depend on strategy, on your plan. Think ahead. Survive. Deploy your forces and try to stay calm. Do it your way. Destroy the evil of the Centrepoint. And remember, the cameras are watching, the universe waits. Are you going to let them down? After all, you are their newest star. The only question is - For how long?

Tracker features:
- An artificially intelligent enemy who will adjust its strategy to combat yours.
- Incredibly solid filled graphics in three-dimensional Combat mode.
- Icon driven, with keyboard or mouse control.

# 2006 - official description

Technical specs

display: flat polygons

External reviews (4) - average: 93.3% - median: 94%

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Arcades (01-07)fr21987-11n.a.view
Atari ST User (005-052)uk181987-0810/10100%
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C&VG (Computer & Video Games) (011-084)uk701987-0810/10100%
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Génération 4 (001-082)fr21988-0188/10088%
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Tilt 39-113fr501988-0117/2085%
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