Old school gameplay gets an upgrade this week on Xbox Live Arcade, as Snowblind Studios releases Death Tank, a shiny new take on the classic tank-on-tank angle shooter.
Go, Death Tank, go! The Xbox Live Arcade release of the Saturn multiplayer classic may not have much in the dazzle department, but it’s clean and has explosions and looks like a good way to spend some Microsoft Points. It also has an amazing title screen. We can be very meat and potatoes sometimes.
Death Tank Silent Spring Gameplay HD [GameTrailers]
We may have gotten wind of it a bit early, but it’s always nice to back things up with an official announcement. Snowblind Studios, Inc. and Flat Games LLC have proudly announced Death Tank for Xbox Live Arcade, a classic game of tanks and trajectories redone with that special XBLA flair. People like to compare it to Worms, but I like to go back a bit further and compare it to an old addiction of mine, Scorched Earth, only with powerups, particle effects, and 8-player multiplayer via Xbox Live (4-players locally). We’ve got screens, a debut video after the jump, but no word on when it’s coming out. Can’t possibly be soon enough in my book. This is gaming right here.
Germany’s rating board, the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle, may have let an Xbox Live Arcade announcement out of the bag a bit early, as it has rated Death Tank for the Xbox 360. Should you have gone without a Sega Saturn and copies of either Powerslave or Duke Nukem 3D, Death Tank is a 2D multiplayer tank shooter with a deforming landscape, similar to the Worms series, but with more tanks and more death.
The game has yet to be officially confirmed or announced, but with the Leipzig Games Convention right around the corner, we’re hoping to get our hands on a playable version very, very soon.
OH #%!& SON, IT’S ‘DEATH TANK’ FOR XBOX LIVE ARCADE [GamerBytes]
