Heavy Armor Brigade

Nintendo exclusive

Tank Beat is entirely stylus-based. As you draw tracks and fire on the DS's bottom screen game map, your tank appears and responds on the top screen. Players engage in a variety of missions and commandeer a full range of tanks: from tiny scrappers, to missile carriers, to giant Panzers.

Also known as: Tank Beat · Tank Beat 2 - Gekitotsu! Duits-gun vs. Rengougun · Tank Beat 2 - Gyeokdol! Jeoncha Daejeon
Released: 30 November 2006
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Genres: Artillery Strategy
Developers: Milestone
Publishers: O3 Entertainment
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Themes: Action
Country: Japan
Age ratings: ESRB E10+

About

Tank Beat (タンクビート, Tanku Bīto), known in PAL regions as Tank Battles, is an artillery/strategy game for the Nintendo DS that was developed by Milestone Inc.

Keywords

modern warfare
vehicular combat
vehicle combat
modern military

Media

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Reception

Tank Beat received "unfavorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. The gameplay mechanics were cited to have a "hit or miss" feel, ranging from "great fun" to "old in about two seconds". In Japan, however, Famitsu gave it a score of all four sevens for a total of 28 out of 40.