{"id":445,"date":"2013-05-07T19:25:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2016-03-21T19:26:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T23:26:38","slug":"tank-tank-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/07\/tank-tank-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Tank! Tank! Tank!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I decided to give <em>Tank! Tank! Tank!<\/em> a try try try. It was originally a Wii U launch game, but they recently converted it into a &#8220;free&#8221; game. And by free game, I mean a skimpy demo that wants to charge you money for DLC for practically everything. But first, I had to download it. You need to have 2,121 MB (over 2 GB) free in order to download it, which is ridiculous when you consider how little content the demo actually has. I had to delete both of my Rayman demos and Wii Street U to make room for it. Once you start the game up and enter your name and choose your icon, you are presented with an option of playing story mission or multiplayer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tank1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-446\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-446\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tank1.jpg\" alt=\"Tank! Tank! Tank!\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tank1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tank1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>I chose story mission. After choosing a support character and watching a short video, you are taken to a screen where you choose your mission. Only one is listed, so naturally I chose that one. I clicked the mission, but nothing happened. Do I need to pick a different tank or something? I scroll through the list of tanks, and only one is available. I re-select it, yet I still can&#8217;t start the mission. At this point, I&#8217;m wondering if I&#8217;m overlooking something really obvious so I look up a video on Youtube, only to see someone else confused by it as well. The story mode is not available in the demo. So why isn&#8217;t that clearly stated when you try to start it up? Wow, what a waste of time that was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other mode is the multiplayer mode, and that does have three modes you can try: Monster battle, free-for-all, and team versus. In monster battle, everyone teams up to destroy a common enemy. It may be 100 big spiders or one gigantic monster. The action is okay, but there&#8217;s nothing particularly captivating about it. And it has this annoying habit of popping up huge notices, telling you a teammate has been killed or showing the monster&#8217;s health level. I can understand why it would want to display that information, but must it be in a gigantic window smack-dab in the middle of the screen? It blocks your view and it makes no sense to put it there when there&#8217;s all sorts of free space in the corners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tank2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-447\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-447\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tank2.jpg\" alt=\"Tank! Tank! Tank! Gameplay screenshot\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tank2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tank2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>As for the other two modes, they&#8217;re your standard deathmatch battles (but in tanks, of course). Free-for-all is every man for himself and team versus is a team battle. I was just playing against computer opponents, but I could see how this could be fun if you had three other friends to join in the action. And that is probably the ideal crowd for <em>Tank! Tank! Tank!<\/em> If you often have a group of friends over to play multi-player games, you might want to give this game a try. But if you primarily stick to single-player games like I do, this isn&#8217;t even worth the free download.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tank3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-448\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-448\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tank3.jpg\" alt=\"Tank! Tank! Tank! Gameplay screenshot\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tank3.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tank3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to give Tank! Tank! Tank! a try try try. 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