Team Yankee (video game)


Team Yankee is a video game adaptation of the 1987 Harold Coyle's World War III novel Team Yankee that was developed by British studio Oxford Digital Enterprises for the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS and Commodore CDTV systems.
It was released in 1990 by publisher Empire Software, and was followed by two sequels that used the same game engine. Team Yankee is a mixture of real-time strategy and simulation game and uses a 3D environment and 2D sprites. The player is able to use several well-known late Cold War-era tanks and other armoured vehicles.

Reception

1992 and 1994 Computer Gaming World surveys of wargames with modern settings gave the game two stars out of five, describing it as "an arcade-like product trying to pass as a simulation of modern tactical armored warfare". A full review by the magazine in 1992 criticized Team Yankees lack of infantry or air power. The magazine concluded that it, while more realistic than Pacific Islands, was not for "the hard-core wargamer, but are for people who enjoy a quick and relatively easy run-through of a tank game".