Free Iphone Applications

Tank

Remember what we said a couple of review back about war simulation games making it on the iPhone and iPod Touch? Well, it’s happening, and here’s the second major military app to be released, called Tank. The App, developed by independent Cyril Cambien, is based around (you guessed it!) tanks in combat against each other.

This App seems promising at first, because the aspect of a tank combat game on the iPhone or iPod Touch is really exciting. After opening the App, however, we were greatly disappointed. Not only is the game a single screen player in which you have to combat other tanks and enemy aircraft, but it lacks some very complex, and even simple, game play. First of all, there is a limited amount of ammo you receive in the game, and there is basically no more you can get once you’ve used all of it. Secondly, there is no use of the Apple Accelerometer, which we found was a great underusage of resources. Finally, the fact that there is no multiplayer, but instead only single player action, was a bit of turn-off to us, as we got bored of fighting 15 tanks with 10 ammo shells pretty quick.

As you can tell, this was one of the most disappointing apps we have ever reviewed. While we still believe there is a future for such games on the iPhone and iPod Touch, this game was definitely not it, and it looks like it was rushed out by the developer. The fact that this game even close to topping the charts is another fact that astounded. So, we’re going to go ahead and award this App an very poor 1 out of 5 stars.