When you introduce a game called Death Tank into the world, you have certain expectations to live up to. You expect lots of firepower and lots of vicious weapons and lots of awesome explosions. You don’t, however, expect an old friend to come back and surprise you, and that’s just what happened for me.
Death Tank, recently released to Xbox Live Arcade, allows you to take control of tanks with a small arsenal of weapons, including cannon, machine gun and guided missiles to take on a series of other tanks. Defeating your opponents allows you a cash budget to upgrade your own tank and improve the chance of killing everyone else.
When I said “an old friend”, I meant it. There was a game a while back, in which you were required to input the angle and velocity of shots and fire on other cannons. Death Tank is a lot like that game, only with a lot more movement and a lot less deliberation.
Death Tank is a surprisingly fun title, even if it doesn’t have a lot of replay value unless you get a group game going, then you’ll probably have even more fun with it. But anyway, it’s a nice little title from Xbox Live and should give you occasional bits of fun for a long time, especially if you spread them out. A little of this game goes a long way.
