iPhone Games Review: Crazy Tanks

Crazy Tanks, as its name suggests, is a crazy tank blasting game for your iPhone. It’s got solid gameplay, great 3D environment, and enough fun fare to make it worthy of its $.99 price.

It’s so easy to describe Crazy Tanks. In fact, if you tap into the Question Mark icon on the game’s main screen, a new screen would appear explaining what the game is all about. To describe the game in one sentence, it goes a little something like this - Crazy Tanks lets you drive your crazy tank by tilting your device, shoot at enemy tanks by tapping the touchscreen, collect power ups and that’s it.

Scattered through various stages on the maze-like environment are power-ups, health restore, weapon upgrades and shield. There are three types of enemies you’ll encounter - moving tanks and stationary turrets which you need to destroy before they blast you away into smithereens.

Crazy Tanks Gameplay

The game also lets you fire your tank’s missiles on a wall to have it bounced towards your targets. There are some levels where there are walls and posts in the middle that you can shoot, hoping that your tank missiles will bump towards the enemy tanks. This adds some strategy elements to the game. Although be cautious when using these walls and posts as you might hit your own tank.

Crazy Tanks Control

There are only two types of controls employed in the game. Tilting your iPhone downwards moves your tanks forward while tilting it upward moves your tank backwards. Tilting it to left and right corresponds to the same directional movement for your tank. Aside from this, you get to use the iPhone’s touch screen feature to fire at enemy tanks and turrets. Controlling your tank is pretty simple, and yet requires some accuracy at times, especially when dodging tank missiles that you fire off accidentally hitting your tank. Aside from this, the iPhone’s accelerometer was well used in the controls of this game.

Crazy Tank Graphics

This game certainly rocks in this environment. The tanks are well rendered and animated fluidly. Crazy Tank’s game environment is definitely top-notch and the level mazes are so different from each other, so you won’t get tired of cruising along the same type of mazes every time. Crazy Tanks gets our thumbs up for this game in this department.