World Destruction League: Thunder Tanks

Fancy rampaging through the streets of Moscow? Good! In WDL Thunder Tanks your mission – if you choose to accept it – is to drive through different cities, completing various different objectives. In doing so you also get to blow up houses, boats, cars, trucks and pretty much anything else that is unfortunate enough to get in your way!

The cities in the game are set out a lot like the ones in Grand Theft Auto and Driver on the Game Boy – viewed from a top-down perspective – and they're all packed with lots of public property to spectacularly blow up as you pass through.

Your main opponents are other tanks, and there are plenty of them scattered throughout the various cities. Even though the game designers have come up with a fairly entertaining game in principal, unfortunately in the end it just doesn't live up to its potential.

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The problem is that the gameplay in WDL Thunder Tanks is very repetitive, and there is nothing really new or exciting to do as you progress through the game. For the majority of the time it's a simple case of just hammering the fire button and trying to destroy a never-ending onslaught of tanks. One thing that we really hated about this game is that, during a heated battle, there is really no way to avoid the shots from the other tanks. You always take damage from the enemy machines and the only effective way to destroy them is to move right up to them and keep bashing the fire button.

Overall this is a fairly poor effort with only a few decent ideas. The gameplay is lacking in any real depth and all the levels are a bit too simple, with only slight differences between each mission. Ultimately it's all just a little dull.