Armored Fist is a tank simulation and strategy game involving the armed forces of both the United States and the Soviet Union.

Garcia found that the state of computer technology at the time allowed for more realistic tank warfare such as strategic terrain masking.

The developers even spent a day learning about tanks at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms.

[3] The game originally went by the working title Battlefield 2000 with development overlapping with other NovaLogic projects including the combat helicopter simulator Comanche: Maximum Overkill and the science fiction mech shooter Ultrabots.

Garcia considered it to the most complex product the team had worked on up to that point, consisting of eight man-years of programming and a quarter million lines of hand-assembled code.