Tank Troopers

Genre: Action

Players: 1-6 Competitive (Local Wireless), Download Play Supported

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Review:

Tank Troopers is a multiplayer-focused Action game released on Nintendo 3DS in 2017. In this game, players take control of a tank in battle with other tanks, with various goals and scenarios.

The presentation here is bright, colorful, and cartoony, with silly characters and exaggerated 3D visuals that lend the game a fair amount of personality. This is backed by a fittingly whimsical soundtrack, and brief nonsensical voice clips for each of the characters. It’s clear this is a game that doesn’t take itself seriously.

When it comes to the gameplay itself, the centerpiece here is clearly the tank vs. tank combat, and to that end, the game does fairly well, with controls that make use of both traditional gamepad controls along with optional added gyroscopic motion control input for a bit more precision. Players will still have to juggle controlling movement while separately aiming, and the game even allows players to shift gears by temporarily locking the tank’s direction in place to let you focus on aiming without affecting the tank’s movement.

As you progress through the game, you’ll earn coins that you can use to unlock content that includes additional tanks, paint jobs, and tank commanders. The tank commanders act as your special abilities, each to be activated when needed, and each with their own cooldown. This works well to let you customize your own ideal tank, starting by finding the tank that matches your own preferences for speed, armor, firepower, turning, and so on, and then pairing them with commanders that compliment that tank well. Perhaps you’ll prefer stealth and healing commanders to compensate for a tank with weak armor, or maybe you want commanders who can cover the enemy’s screen and power up your own radar to make it easier to find them and harder for them to find you.

Probably my biggest complaint here is that the gameplay can get a bit repetitive at times. Special abilities aside, you’re just driving around and firing your main weapon. The game does try to add variety via different mission types, but I can see fatigue setting in for players during the campaign. Of course, this game seems like it was designed around its multiplayer, and to that end the game has six player local wireless gameplay with download play support, so as long as you have friends nearby with their own Nintendo 3DS systems, you can set up a multiplayer match and start blasting each other away.

Ultimately, Tank Troopers doesn’t do anything especially unique or revolutionary, but when it comes to the game’s core gameplay of driving around a tank and blasting away other tanks, this game succeeds quite well, and the support for multiplayer is excellent. Overall, I’d say that Tank Troopers is well worth its $8 price tag.

tl;dr – Tank Troopers is an Action game where players control tanks and blast away at other tanks. The core gameplay here is good, though it can get a bit monotonous at times. However, with this game’s good support for multiplayer battles using download play, this is a solid choice to add to your Nintendo 3DS library.

Grade: B

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