Line #40 VideoGame/ThunderWolves


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thunder_wolves_heli.jpg]]
2	-> ''"It's not rocket science kid, it's just rockets."''
3	-->-- '''Max''', succinctly summing up this game.
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5	''Thunder Wolves'' is an arcade-style, [[ThirdPersonShooter Third Person]] helicopter-based ShootEmUp by Most Wanted Entertainment, and released by bitComposer Games in 2013, first for the Platform/XBox360 and Platform/PlayStation3, and eventually on PC. You can get it from Platform/{{Steam}} and [[Creator/HumbleBundle Humble Store]].
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7	[[TheNineties It's 1991.]] [[PrivateMilitaryContractors A crack mercenary unit]] called the [[TitleDrop Thunder Wolves]] are on deployment [[{{Qurac}} somewhere in Central Asia.]] The player takes on the role of [[DeadpanSnarker wisecracking]] AcePilot Max and his [[SnarkToSnarkCombat equally snarky]] new gunner, [[EmbarrassingNickname Blister,]] as they provide [[GunshipRescue overwhelming aerial support]] for the ground pounders from their [[HighlyConspicuousUniform bright red-and-yellow]] helicopter.
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9	The game is essentially a {{Pastiche}} of the [[TheEighties 80s]] action film, with persistently over-the-top action, a near-constant stream of [[OneLiner One Liners]] and [[ClusterFBomb swearing]], a villain with [[NGOSuperpower improbable resources]], and of course, a whole hell of a lot of StuffBlowingUp. Gameplay is very forgiving and fun, with simplistic controls, [[BottomlessMagazines unlimited machine gun ammo and regenerating rockets]], [[MadeOfIron generous player health]] and even a NitroBoost. Players can select from nine availiable helicopters with various stats and special weapons. There are 13 missions across three difficulties, and an option for CoopMultiplayer wherin the first player flies and the second shoots.
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11	!!This game provides [[MadeOfExplodium explosive]] examples of:
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13	* AnimalMotifs: The Thunder Wolves versus the mysterious and vengeful [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Serpent.]]
14	* AppropriatedAppelation: Max immediately christens his unwanted new teammate, Sgt. Hall, "[[EmbarrassingNickname Blister]]" to demean him. Blister objects exactly ''once'' and then runs with it.
15	* BlandNameProduct: The helicopters are all real world models, like the Apache, Kasatka, Blackhawk and Hind, but are known by fake names. It gets odd because several helicopters are properly named during in-game dialogue.
16	* BloodKnight: Both Max and Blister ''really'' get into their work. Zara also counts.
17	* BossFight: Several, including armored anti-air tanks and intense duels against enemy helicopters, which play out like an OldSchoolDogfight.
18	* BottomlessMagazines: Your machine guns never run out of ammo or even [[{{Overheating}} overheat.]] Your rockets are on a recharging meter.
19	* ClusterFBomb: Max and Blister drop about as many F-bombs as they do real ones!
20	* FlashBack: Certain levels of the game take the player back to [[TheEighties 1986,]] as part of Max's story about the first time he faced the Serpent's forces.
21	* GunshipRescue: Max and Blister deliver several of these over the course of the game, and they're AlwaysClose.
22	* HellishCopter: Max gets shot down several times over the course of the campaign. Twice, you have to steer it as it spirals out of control towards a specific area, and the first time that happens, an UnexpectedGameplayChange occurs where you are able to use the wreck's guns and even ''rockets'' to defend yourself while waiting for backup.
23	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: It is possible to blow your own stupid self up with the PlayerGuidedMissile. [[SchmuckBait Doing so actually nets you]] [[CosmeticAward an achivement.]]
24	* HomingProjectile: Each helicopter can use homing missiles as well as dumbfire ones.
25	* ImperturbableEnglishman: Pearce has shades of this.
26	* KilledOffForReal: Max's old gunner, Zara, who [[DiedInYourArmsTonight died in his arms.]]
27	* MadeOfExplodium: ''Everything!''
28	* MacrossMissileMassacre: You will rain an unholy amount of rockets down on your foes in this game. One chopper even has this as special, and it is ''glorious''.
29	* NGOSuperpower: As you progress, the Serpent throws increasingly unlikely amounts of military grade hardware at you, even for a drug lord slash arms dealer, including but not limited to: a Typhoon class submarine, a ''battleship'', and a fully equipped ''ICBM launch facility''. Holy ''hell.''
30	* NukeEm: The protagonists juggle a live warhead with the bad guys for a while before having to let it blow in an unpopulated area, being unable to defuse it in time. Max and Blister [[AlwaysClose pull Pearce out of the frying pan just in time.]]
31	* NotQuiteDead: Max thought Hector was dead. He thought wrong. [[FaceHeelTurn Very, very wrong.]]
32	* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Max and Blister spend much of the game making light of each other, the enemy, and pretty much anything else.
33	* SpecialAttack: Each helicopter has one big attack that has to recharge fully between uses. Notable ones include a PlayerGuidedMissile, [[KillItWithFire napalm missile,]] and a plain old MacrossMissileMassacre.
34	* ShoutOut: There's a few in the achivements:
35	** [[Film/{{Predator}} Get to the choppa, of course.]] For completing a mission as each helicopter at least once.
36	** Courage Wolf, for completing the game on at least Normal difficulty.
37	** [[VideoGame/StarFox Star Wolf]], for earning a three star ranking in each mission.
38	* StuffBlowingUp: In the finest action game tradition. This game gives ''VideoGame/RenegadeOps'' a run for its money in the explosion department.
39	* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Happens at least once per level, including RailShooter segments, a bit where you drop bombs from a C-130, a bit where you control Pearce on an anti-aircraft gun and even a part where you drive an [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier APC]].
40	* TheUnreveal: The {{Big Bad}}'s motivation? [[ForTheEvulz He can "snap his fingers and the world jumps!"]] Yeah.
41	* TooDumbToLive: Max is seperated from Blister at one point and has to work his chopper's guns alone. He fails to realize the rockets are operated via a BigRedButton until Blister tells him, prompting an IronicEcho of the page quote above.
42	--> '''Max:''' Smartass.
43	* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: The suitably attractive Lin.
44	* WorldOfBadass: Pretty much. Even the navy gets its moments.

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