I've been very busy with this Street Fighter videogame, and you're going to be hearing quite a bit from me on it, but there was a certain very important release that has unfortunately been completely overshadowed by SF4. I'm talking, of course, about Death Tank.
Yes, Death Tank. Included as a bonus game in Saturn ports of Powerslave and Duke Nukem 3D, Death Tank and Death Tank Zwei were perhaps the greatest multiplayer Saturn experiences. The game is basically Scorched Earth, if you remember that: five tanks (multicolored boxes) on a map, aiming and shooting at one another in real time. It's not really exciting at all to talk about, but it's exciting as hell to play with all your friends huddled around the TV, screaming at it as your shot juuust misses, as two tanks have a point-blank machinegun duel to the death, or as some lucky bastard demolishes everybody else on the screen with the Death's Head. The developer knows their strong point: they've put free online multiplayer on the demo. I bought the game sight unseen, but if you haven't experienced Death Tank, then definitely at least download this demo. If you're not sold by the time it's over, you're probably not alive and have greater problems than some silly videogame.
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