This game does try to be more realistic than its predecessors there are different levels of damage for different tornado strengths and strucutres are torn to pieces in a more realistic tornado fashion. There are different types of structures your tornado can take out including permanent homes, trailers, fences, vehicles - anything in your path! This is NOT to be confused with the Steam game of the same name!įorce of Nature is an indie (made by one developer) game where you take control of a tornado. I think I paid $5 for mine back in the day and while the cost has gone up with time you should pick up a copy while they're still cheap. I'm sure there are various online acquistion methods that shall not be spoken of *wink wink* but if you want to try the game I do recommend picking up a CD off of eBay or something as they are not expensive at all. Fair enough, but the houses can only get their roofs torn off as there are not different levels of destruction for different strengths of tornadoes.ĭespite these shortcomings, this game is freaking FUN! The game wasn't designed to be realistic so I can get past the shortcomings, and I highly recommend you try this game if you haven't already. In all fairness, in some ways the game does try to be somewhat realistic in the Suburbs map the default strength is F2 and when the player steers the tornado into the houses they get their roofs torn off. No F0 tornadoes can't collapse skyscrapers and loft heavy vehicles hundreds of yards through the air. There is one thing about this game that should be noted however: it is NOT realistic in any way shape or form. You can play any unlocked map with any unlocked tornado. In Tornado Alley mode the goal is simple: destroy EVERYTHING. As you go along your tornado increases in strength and you unlock that strength and the map.
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In Adventure mode you have to destroy a set of targets on the different maps. There are six different maps from a simple prarie to a big city and everything in between and tornadoes ranging from F0 to F5 in strength.
#TORNADO JOCKEY DEMO WINDOWS#
NOTE: IF YOUR COMPUTER DOES NOT HAVE A DEDICATED GRAPHICS CARD OR AN OPERATING SYSTEM NEWER THAN WINDOWS 7, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PLAY THIS TECH DEMO.Īh yes, my favorite tornado game of all time! I spent WAY too much time playing this game as a kid.Īnyways, Tornado Jockey was released in 2006 by WildTangent. If anyone is interested you can find downloads for this tech demo on various websites. The storm is controllable by the user and upon contact, the trailers are lofted and/or torn to pieces by the tornado. The tornado and trailer park are rendered using fill-rate techniques via the GPU while the CPU calculates the physics of the trailer park.
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#TORNADO JOCKEY DEMO SERIES#
Featuring DirectX 7 and OpenGL 1.3 capability, the 4MX series were some of nVidia's budget or "entry level" graphics cards available at the time. This 30MB tech demo was created and released in 2002 by nVidia to showcase the capabilities of their then new GeForce 4MX series graphics cards. But some of these games try to be more realistic then others. I've started this thread to talk about various tornado games that have been released for Windows over the years.įirst and foremost: Are any of these games 100% accurate simulations of tornadoes?