Hovertank One

Hovertank One is an early first-person combat game that places you inside a futuristic armored vehicle and sends you into hostile environments. The idea is delightfully direct: drive, search for targets, and destroy enemy units before they destroy you. It has the rough visual appearance of an early 3D experiment, but that simplicity is historically interesting because the game was helping establish ideas that would become much more familiar in later first-person shooters. Navigation and combat are central, while the limited technology means imagination has to fill in some of the scenery. The controls may feel primitive today, yet there is something charming about watching the world unfold from the cockpit of a tank-like vehicle. Hovertank One is an important curiosity for anyone interested in the evolution of 3D action games. It is proof that id Software was experimenting with perspective long before corridors full of demons became the company's specialty.