Tank Battles - How Best Game
Tank Battles is a game that's every bit as straightforward as its title suggests - at least in the beginning. This dual-stick shooter starts simple, with tanks taking shots at each other wars from a few obstacles, hazards, or power-ups. The early going in the Campaign mode is not a little challenging, but fun, and that's why it's unfortunate that in the later levels introduce new features, they become overly complex and fun gives way to frustration. Players battles do not suffer from that problem but highlight the power-ups that luck - rather than ability - very often plays a big part in determining the victor.
Control your tank very easy: You use the left analog stick to move and the right analog sticks to aim and, if you choose to play out the fire button, and shoot. You can drop mines after your tank with a quick press of the circle button or L2 as well, which can be useful in multiplayer games, but to serve the purpose of the Campaign levels where many enemies are stationary turrets. Friendly fire is the cause of the ever-present worry because you can not just get blown up by mines on your own, but your projectile attacks and rebound off certain surfaces and have a habit of coming back to haunt if you're not careful. A limit of the number of projectiles that can be flying around at any time prevents the action from getting too crazy, but move a lot faster than your tank, so even ninjalike mind often enough to get out of a tight spot. Your best bet is usually to shoot down projectiles more projectiles, which is easier than you might think.
The ability to shoot down projectiles is always good if you are the last to do so, but often, this results in the ability of a stalemate of sorts as the tanks to fire each other at the time of the shells cancel each other out. Temporary power-ups to alleviate the problem, and others to burst that even in acquiring them for a short period of time can make a huge difference. Some very useful in certain situations. For example, the "quality of fire power-up is the best there is because it not only increases the speed at which you can fire multiple shells but also increases the number of shells that you can be flying together. Invisibility, on the other hand, it is great to get close to the unwary AI tanks, but it's worthless multiplayer games because your opponents can see the same version of translucent your tank as you. This is unavoidable if you are playing the same console but unnecessary online. Other temporary power-ups include flamethrowers, missiles homing, speed boosts, and invincibility.
In Campaign mode, especially in the later levels, to get the right to a random power-up at the right time is often the difference between success and failure. Toward the end of the game, the sound levels puzzle battles in the open, and not finding the right power-up for the job can make you feel like you're trying to finish a jigsaw puzzle with a piece missing. If you're on a conveyor belt surrounded by mining the past dozen or so enemy turrets, and then picking up speed and intensity of rocket launcher it will not do you much good. But if you grab some missiles homing and increase the quality of your fire, you're set. Even the strongest levels that Tank Battles has to offer would be frustrating if you could take a patient to beating them, but most people throw you into the battle from the get-go, and all 50 played against the time limit just two minutes. The timer is a necessary bad when it is considered that there is a stalemate situation, but it's incredibly frustrating to fail a level that has been struggling to run out before you could get in the final.
And limit the use of multiplayer games, although only if you opt out of allowing unplanned airstrikes drop across the battlefield after a few minutes to help hasten the resolution of the game. Players battles support up to four players, and the projectile, and the prevalence of side - feel a lot like competitive play Bomberman. You choose how many people each player receives at the beginning of the game, set the time limit if you want one, and then driving around shooting each other until only one remains. It's not quite that simple, though, because while you can only drop three mines during each of your lives for many, they do not disappear from the battlefield when you die. The result is that at the end of a long theater, it is possible to screen mined, making it nigh impossible to walk through. There are plenty of fun had multiplayer Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Capture the Flag modes, although the frame rate struggles to keep up with the action when things get especially crazy.
Multiplayer modes can also be played against the AI on one of three difficulty settings, but the AI enemies at best completely clueless predictable. AI teammates sometimes shoot each other if there are no enemies nearby, and if the tank AI do is pick up the flag in a Capture the Flag game, get it back to the base to score a point seems to be the last thing his mind. Like its colorful visual style, Tank Battles initially appealing, but it is impossible to hold your interest for more than a few hours.
