It isn't long before escape is on everyone's minds and a dangerous pursuit across the desert lies in store. Following the opening tank battle, Mature is captured along with the usual cliches of by-the-book, stiff upper lip British officer (Leo Genn) and a cheery, chirpy cockney squaddie (Anthony Newley) and taken to a POW camp run by a German and Italian alliance. He's joined up because he was married to a German Jew and therefore feels the war is personal.
Produced by Cubby Broccoli, from a script by Richard Maibaum and the film's director, Terence Young, No Time to Die (to give this British film its proper British title Tank Force is the title it went by in the USA) stars Victor Mature as an American in the British 8th army fighting in North Africa.
FILM TANK FORCE 1958 SERIES
This is the kind of film the people who created the James Bond series did before stumbling upon that winning formula. In his review for Namco Museum on the Nintendo Switch, Damien McFerran of Nintendo Life said that Tank Force made for an odd inclusion due to its obscurity, describing it as " Pac-Man with tanks and destructible environments".For a war film that throws in everything including the kitchen sink - a sympathetic German officer who hates the Nazis (Alfred Burke), a ruthless, cold blooded Polish soldier (Bonar Colleano), an urbane pro-Nazi Arab Sheikh (Maxwell Shaw), a fascist posh traitor in the POW camp (Kenneth Fortescue) and a brief spot of eye-candy in the voluptuous shape of Luciana Paluzzi - this a surprisingly lifeless affair. Game Machine reported that Tank Force was the fourth most-popular arcade game of February 1992. The gameplay is very much like that of Tank Battalion, except that this time up to two (on an upright model) or four (on a cocktail) players can play simultaneously, there are seven new types of enemy tanks (Normal Tanks, Speed Tanks, Hard Tanks, Big Tanks, Rapid Tanks, Tomahawk Tanks and Jeeps) and there is fifteen types of powerups (Bonus 500, 1000, 20, Shot Powerup, 4-Way Shot, Hyper Shot, Ripple Laser, Twin Shot, Small, Shield, Bomb Attack, Timer Stop, Force Field and Extend) which appear for players to collect in order to increase their tanks' firepower and boost their score the enemies also roll into view from the top of the screen instead of just appearing and can also enter from the left and right sides, every fourth round is a "boss" round where the players must fight Train Cannons, AK Tanks and Boss Cannons at the top of the screen as well as the round's regular enemies, the players cannot destroy their own headquarters walls, when one player shoots another they will be pushed back, and the game has an ending which will be seen after clearing all thirty-six rounds. In 2017, the two-player version was re-released for the Nintendo Switch as part of the Namco Museum compilation. The game is a successor installment to Namco's Battle City (1985), itself a successor to Tank Battalion (1980). It was designed by Yutaka Kounoe, whose works include Dig Dug, Lucky & Wild, and Point Blank. Tank Force is a 1991 multi-directional shooter arcade game developed and published in Japan by Namco.
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