![]() The levels are enjoyably varied, with backgrounds, level layouts and music gradually changing as you progress through the game. Like in Dig Dug, you ideally want to put yourself in a position where you have a good vantage point, but enemies have limited ways to get to you. This might sound like a rather conventional sort of top-down shoot ’em up, but Tank Force does a number of things to distinguish itself from similar titles, as well as drawing inspiration from Namco’s earlier titles.įor example, the fact the game is set in single-screen, maze-like arrangements is rather reminiscent of Pac-Man, requiring you to carefully plan out your movements so you can get the drop on your enemies without making yourself vulnerable to them.Īt the same time, the game draws inspiration from Dig Dug by making much of the level destructible, meaning that both you and your enemies can blast a path through obstacles and attempt to use this to your advantage. Clear a “quota” of enemies and you advance to the next level allow the enemies to break down the walls of your base at the bottom of the screen and invade, and your game is immediately over. Rather than battling another player, it’s up to you (and perhaps a friend) to fend off incoming waves of enemy tanks and vehicles who appear from various entrances around the top of the screen. Tank Force, like its predecessor Tank Battalion, distinguishes itself from Combat by both being friendly to solo players and also having a different focus. Then, finally, we come to 1991’s Tank Force, the game that we’re concerned with today - and an underappreciated arcade title that is well worth your time to check out. ![]() ![]() Namco got in on the tank battle action in 1980 with its arcade title Tank Battalion, subsequently followed up by spinoff title Battle City for Famicom in 1985. Indeed, one of the earliest competitive games - Atari’s Combat for 2600, released in 1977 - is most well known for its highly enjoyable two-player tank battles, though the game’s myriad modes also incorporated a variety of other vehicles. (Then, of course, they trundled right over said landscape, flattened it and blew it up.) While they’ve fallen a bit out of fashion in more recent years, tanks have been an important part of the gaming landscape pretty much since its dawn.
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