In the sequel, hitting a car yields a standard, boring explosion and that’s it. In the original, you could run over cars with your tank and flatten them into little metal pancakes. It bothered me, for instance, how you couldn’t crush cars anymore.

Some of them are, admittedly, very minor. There are, additionally, little touches that the game gets wrong. To be fair, I also didn’t like the game’s psychic powers plot overall, but it certainly didn’t help that the writing generally stepped away from the tone I enjoyed so much in the original. Maybe you’ve heard of me.”) does nothing besides adding a cringe factor to an experience that was already walking a fine line of credibility before. Giving him poorly written dialogue (“My name is Griffin Spade. It’s just that he works better as a concept an everyman suit for the player to slide in and out of. I’m not saying that Griffin is a terrible character. Global Assault, comparatively, makes him into more of a person with a direct hand in dialogue, much to the game’s detriment. He was your basic stand-in for the player with the majority of his story being told by a detached narrator. There wasn’t much to him besides his quest. In the first game, he was pretty much a blank slate. A big part of this is that its protagonist, Griffin Spade, is a lot less likable this time around. Global Assault doesn’t pull off the same vibe quite as well. The music, the story, the visuals while I certainly pulled no punches describing the inherent silliness of it all, it possessed a level of sincerity that made the experience work. It might sound silly but there was something about it that grabbed me. When I look at the two games, however, I just can’t get over how much more charming I find the original. It’s funny because there are more than a few tangible ways that it improves on the original (in the case of the N64 game any ways). I didn’t like BattleTanx: Global Assault as much as I did the original, and that goes for both the Nintendo 64 version and the PlayStation version. Picking up where BattleTanx left off, it takes the strong foundation of the first game and builds on it with more powerups, more missions and, best of all, more tanks!

The tanktasticness continues with BattleTanx: Global Assault.

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