Tank Beat

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.

Released: 29 June 2007
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Genres: Strategy
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Themes: Action

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

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

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.