Sandwarriors

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Sandwarriors
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Developer(s) Astros Productions
Publisher(s) Interplay Entertainment
Platform(s) DOS [1]
Release
  • EU: May 1997
[2]
Genre(s) Action [3]

Sandwarriors is a 1997 video game developed by Astros Productions and published by Interplay Entertainment. The game is a combat/flight sim. [4]

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Development

The game was developed by Astros Productions, a company founded in 1982. [5] It used an advanced 3D engine called 3D ALITY. [5]

Reception

PC Zone gave the game a score of 7.4 out of 10 stating "It's not a bad game by any means; it simply just doesn't distinguish itself from the pack. As Ron Pickering used to say to the losing team on the programme We Are The Champions, that's just 'hard lines" [7]

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