![]() ![]() ![]() To make matters worse, your tank seems to be slower than your opponents so you won’t win by simply heading into each arena guns blazing. ![]() You have a single life to complete each stage against the multiple AI opponents so one hit and that’s it. Later stages change to include force fields that destroy your tank as soon as you come into contact with them. The arenas themselves are set in a variety of indoor locations including children’s playrooms with a variety of obstacles to navigate and use as barricades to hide behind. Most of you will start off with the single player mode, which puts you up against multiple AI opponents over 60 levels steadily increasing in difficulty. It’s a top-down 3D version of the classic but instead of players controlling high-tech military craft, instead each combatant is equipped with a small but heavily armed remote control tank. But what has any of that got to do with this review?Īs you can see from the screenshots, Ratalaika’s Attack Of The Toy Tanks is a modern-day reworking of the tank based game modes from Atari’s Combat. That game itself wasn’t exactly original, being based on an earlier Atari arcade game, Tank, from 1974. ![]() Attack Of The Toy Tanks from Ratalaika pays homage to the classics from that era and more…įor home gamers, the one arena game most people will be familiar with is Combat – the Atari 2600 classic that was bundled with early releases of the late 1970s console. These classics weren’t the first to be released from the genre, but they’re the ones most gamers remember to this date. For those old enough to remember, Berzerk from Stern (and later on Williams’ Robotron 2084) set the standard that everyone else followed way back in 1980 with the confined room-based shoot-em-up gameplay mechanics. Arena based arcade games are nothing new. ![]()
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