"PC Zone"s reviewer summarized "Tornado" with: "The more you play the deeper it gets - eventually you'll need a bathyscaphe. Not for beginners." Of the mission planner, he said: "will impress you so deeply your socks will be blown off. [… it's absolutely incredible." On "Tornado"s faults, he highlighted the lack of shadow beneath the plane in external view, the use of a single crash sequence regardless of cause of death, the lack of mission replay facility, and the fact that "Digital Integration makes absolutely no concessions to the fact" the gamer had to micromanage both the pilot and navigator roles with their myriad of keystrokes in the heat of the battle. "PC Zone" gave "Tornado" a rating of 93%.