Even for a 79p game, it’s as fully-featured as a gall bladder stone, and just as painful. But Ground War: Tank Battle is completely outclassed by that dusty old museum piece. Thirty-two years have passed, along with multiple console generations, so you would expect Ground War: Tank Battle to surpass Battle City on every level. Ground War: Tank Battle has the unfortunate habit of sprinkling these onto walls, some of them unreachable, and they disappear all-too-quickly, so they can often be a tank-tease.īattle City, the game that Ground War: Tank Battle most reminds us of, released in 1990 for the incredibly limited Nintendo Game Boy. Shields, armour-piercing shells and time-slowing boosts all offer a fair amount of additional power, while ‘1up’s give you an extra tank for that level. But you can tip the scales even further to your advantage by picking up power-ups in the environment. Your basic shells are pretty powerful – on normal difficulty, two will dispatch the average tank. We couldn’t figure why the level wasn’t over once we got to zero. Once that number is zero, you still have to mop up the tanks that remain on the screen to actually complete the level. On the right side of the screen is a bemusing little number that took us a dozen-or-so levels to work out: it represents the number of tanks you have to destroy before tanks stop emerging from their bases. There are four settings, and they mostly just push the number of tanks on both sides up or down. On the left-side of the screen are your lives, which change depending on the difficulty setting.
They can destroy yours, however, which hardly seems fair: you have a single square, usually surrounded by bricks, that you must protect as if your life depends on it… because your life depends on it – if it gets hit by a single shell, or even gets accidentally clipped by your caterpillar tracks, then it’s game over man, and you’re back to the start of the level. Presumably to stop you blitzkrieging through the levels, you can’t destroy these bases, even if you feel like you should be able to. Each level starts with you at the bottom of a single-screen map, with enemies pouring out of bases at the top of the screen.
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