Techno Tanks

Genre: Top-Down Action

Players: 1-4 Competitive / Co-Op (Local)

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Review:

Techno Tanks is a Top-Down Action game released in 2021 on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch where players either tackle a series of progressively more difficult single-screen stages aiming to clear away enemies with their tank, or navigate increasingly larger and more elaborate stages in search of an exit.

The presentation here is pretty bare bones, with simple 3D visuals (sometimes lit by a “disco ball” lighting effect) backed by decent but forgettable techno-style synthesized tracks. This is all fine, but certainly nothing extraordinary.

As for the gameplay, there are two major problems here. The first is that enemy AI is absolutely brainless, often only firing in the vague vicinity of your direction and moving in the general direction of where you are at a snail’s pace.

The second problem is that the way this game handles aiming is absolutely absurd. There are two aiming methods, both of them bad, and they have you moving a crosshair on-screen that your tank will fire at, rather than rotating your tank’s gun in a way that actually feels like it makes sense. This makes aiming awkward and more time-consuming than any sort of traditional aiming. And as a bonus, due to these two issues, you’ll have just as much to worry about from your own ricocheted bullets as you will from your enemies, if not more so.

I suppose Techno Tanks still does technically work as a game, but with unimpressive visuals, moronic AI, and terrible controls, I can’t imagine many players will actually find this fun.

tl;dr – Techno Tanks is a Top-Down Action game where players control tanks fighting other tanks in simple levels. This game’s visuals are unimpressive, its controls are terrible, and the enemy AI is absurdly dumb. Don’t bother with this game.

Grade: D

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