You start off in your chosen nation’s weakest tin can and work your way up to behemoths of steel. The main tank lines are American, German and Soviet. The company,, is originally from Minsk, Belarus, though it now also has operations in London. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that a game about tanks and artillery comes from a company in the former Soviet Union, which owed its very survival of Nazi Germany’s onslaught to the powerful use of armor. More important, there are amazing victories just waiting to be pulled from the maw of defeat through your mastery of strategy and aim. In fact there is no blood at all, just a lot of nice, clean tank explosions and buildings being ground to rubble. World of Tanks is about, well, yeah, tanks, specifically those of the World War II era. And if you’re tiring of elves, demons and aliens, you may find the experience of watching your enemies scatter or be blown to shards by the rumbling might of your Tiger tank just a bit more visceral. If you’re a World War II buff, the game is a must. To put it in blunt, even howitzerian, terms: if you have any interest in military tactics and a speedy computer (the game runs only on fairly powerful Windows PCs), you should at least give it a try. Even when I should have been playing some other game, I was probably playing World of Tanks, a concussively enjoyable, shrewdly designed armored-combat game.Īfter more than 1,500 online battles, I now find myself daydreaming about obscure military concepts with vaguely suggestive names like gun depression, defilade and enfilade. When I should have been doing something responsible, like scrubbing the tub, I was probably barreling around a European town called Himmelsdorf in an “Easy Eight” Sherman. When I could have been doing something healthy recently, like going to the gym, I was probably sniping with a Panzer IV from the escarpments of a desert called El Halluf.
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