

As soon as everything kicks off, your units and the enemy's start looking around the map for predefined points of interest to occupy, scanning for enemy forces and looking around for cover. Even though all units look kind of plasticky and are coloured like toy army men, they actually look good with nice attention to detail.Īt the start of a battle, you use credits to pick a combination of units to your liking, place them on the map, before pressing the start battle button. If you know the difference between a Soviet ISU-152 and a SU-76, you'll understand what kind of historical units we're talking about. These are balanced in a sort of rock-paper-scissors system where one counters the other. The units in the game are a mixture of historically and physically accurate infantry units, tanks, artillery and aircraft. The maps are colourful with lots of cute-looking trees and other vegetation. For example, there are sandy desert plains, snowy mountains and quiet autumn villages with big pumpkins growing around them.

In Total Tank Simulator, you fight out battles against the AI opponent(s) on a wide variety of square maps. Turns out, we didn't have to overthink it all that much and we could just enjoy messing around with tanks and other units! This understanding of the game's aims matters, as during our initial playtesting we were a bit confused as to what we were actually supposed to be doing. The emphasis here is not on player strategy or fighting cunning AI adversaries, but rather it lies on enjoying the ragdoll physics and the moments it creates, with Totally Accurate Battle Simulator and Ultimate Battle Simulator offering similar experiences in the same genre. So who is this game for and what's to like about it?Īccording to the developers, the Massive Battle Simulator is a very particular genre. However, don't expect an overly serious or realism-oriented game here: this is a so-called Massive Battle Simulator that's all about physics, destruction, and ragdoll effects.

As the title implies, it's a game that involves tanks and is in a way a simulation game. Total Tank Simulator is a game that's been in development by studio Noobz from Poland for several years already.
