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Tank! Tank! Tank! goes free-to-play in Europe
For the Japanese release of Tank! Tank! Tank!, Namco Bandai opted for a free-to-play approach, releasing a segment of the game free on the eShop and selling the rest of it as microtransactions. Following the European retail launch, Namco has announced plans to re-release the game as F2P in that region as well.The base download will include Monster Battle, Free-For-All, and Team Versus modes, playable up to three times. The first add-on includes the entertaining My Kong mode, temporarily discounted 80% to €1.99 /£1.59 through February 28.While the piecemeal sale may not be ideal, a free demo is. We strongly suggest trying before you buy.
Tank! Tank! Tank! review: Tread on your head
Keep track of all of Joystiq's Wii U launch coverage on our Wii U hub page! The thesis of Tank! Tank! Tank!, I think, is that it's fun to crush your friends' faces. Or blast them. Either one works. Tank Tank Tank (henceforth rendered without exclamation points), allows its players to photograph themselves with the Wii U GamePad. These photos come complete with carnival-style cutouts (military helmets, pirate hats, tiger faces, etc), and once the photo is taken, the images are attached to each player's in-game tank.It's a simple feature, but significantly adds to Tank Tank Tank's limited level of entertainment. Without it, you'd just be blasting tanks and monsters. With it, you're blasting the snarling face of your brother-in-law wearing a lucha libre mask.%Gallery-165976%
Namco Bandai bringing Tank! Tank! Tank!, Star Trek to Gamescom
Namco Bandai is jumping on the Germany train (rather than the "train to Germany" -- fare from Tokyo to Cologne would be insane) with its Gamescom 2012 lineup. Namco will be showing off its Wii U installment Tank! Tank! Tank! and will demo the Star Trek movie tie-in game in its very own seated theater at stand C11 in hall 9.Namco will also have playable demos of Tekken Tag Tournament 2, One Piece Pirate Warriors, Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition, Tales of Graces F and Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch.
Tank! Tank! Tank! is E3's least effective Wii U showcase, is fun regardless
Tank! Tank! Tank! may not be what I would have shown off at E3 with innovative new hardware. It's fun in a profoundly goofy, vintage-arcadey way, but it's hardly pushing any new ideas or making any graphical leaps. In fact, it's not even a new game -- it was originally released as an arcade cabinet in 2009.It doesn't make particularly interesting use of the WiiPad, either. In the demo shown in Nintendo's booth, one player saw the action from behind their own tank, while up to four other players could play on the TV with Wiimotes -- after everyone passed the WiiPad around to snap avatar portraits. The gameplay was the same -- even the view was the same -- just on another screen.%Gallery-157223%
