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[NOW YOU'RE PLAYING WITH POWER]
=>AMIGA =>ATARI
=>COMMODORE =>NINTENDO
=>PLAYSTATION =>SEGA
=>SNK =>TURBO =>XBOX |
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ROBOT TANK
BY: ALAN MILLER
PUBLISHED BY: ACTIVISION
RELEASED: 1983 |
::RATING::
Graphics: 5
Sound: 5
Control: 5
Depth: 4
Overall: 5 |
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Robot Tank is a Battlezone clone and its existence at first glance seems unnecessary. While the game has the prerequisite Activision improvements and polish, Atari's Battlezone is a better simulation of 3D combat and is pretty great in its own right. But if you can get over the fact that you fight only one tank at a time and that the enemy won't fire unless they are in your line of sight (not the other way around), you'll find one of the most exciting "kill or be killed" games on the 2600.
The first person graphics are impressive and include various weather effects for night, rain, ice, and fog, as well as a nice bobbing effect as you drive your tank. Borrowing from author's previous game Starmaster, there are multiple qualifying scores for Activision patches, you can take out enemy fire with your own, and you take damage from indirect hits making it harder to control your vehicle.
Taking out a tank or two in nice daytime weather is pretty easy at first, but gets tricky as conditions worsen and the enemy continues to get deadlier as time passes. Do you play defensively waiting for better weather, or risk attacking using only your radar? The game quickly gets frantic and achieving a high score is just at that sweet spot of "difficult, but not impossible".
Highly Recommended.
-Ben Langberg
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2010 ben langberg, all rights reserved.