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Value for money is one of the first questions anyone needs to ask when buying an Xbox Live Arcade title. Sure arcade games will not send you broke, but if you keep buying lots of them over a long period of time the amount spend adds up. This question hangs over Death Tank more than most arcade games as it carries a price tag of 1200 MS points. Whilst this is not new, it is a price point usually reserved for the creme DE la creme of titles such as The Behemoth's Castle Crashers. Lets take a look at Death Tank and consider if it is well worth its price point.
For starters, those of us gamers that are well seasoned may recognise that Death Tank is pretty much a modern version of an old PC title called Scorched. Scorched had very similar gameplay and concept in that you were a tank trying to destroy another tank before you get destroyed yourself. However Death Tank takes this concept and adds in new gameplay elements to modernise the games concept.
The main campaign mode of Death Tank consists of 20 rounds in which your will battle 4-8 other tanks. The game supports 4 tanks in the offline mode and 8 online. In each round the aim is to attack and destroy as many of the enemy tanks possible to obtain the highest possible score. Your score equates to money which you can spend at the end of each round in the lobby to access different weapons and upgrades for your tank. These upgrades consist of different shell types and ammo types, a jet pack, the ability to move faster, an auto turret and even the ultimate weapon, a nuclear missile. Whilst these upgrades are exciting they get boring quickly and enemies are often destroyed just as quickly with a normal shell. That said the nuke is well worth the cash, even if to see the mushroom cloud at least once
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