![]() ![]() During the heat of battle, your thumbs naturally drift away from these inefficient buttons and the tank grinds to an aggravating halt. Instead of using the obvious (and far superior) option of driving the tank and aiming the turret with the accelerometer, there are some small and badly positioned arrows around the edge of the screen for forwards, backwards, left, right and fire. There's an option to switch to a top-down view, but this doesn't help much since the view is again stationary until your tank reaches the very edges of the screen, only to be greeted by an enemy bombardment from a metre away that you previously couldn't see. ![]() This makes surveying the levels not only difficult, but quite irritating, since enemies hardly suffer from the same handicap. Being as this is a slick 3D game, it's something of a jarring experience to see the camera fail to track and pan along with the vehicle or turret. ![]() Issues with the controls and camera angles cause the game to breakdown, however. There's never any real shortage of tanks to shoot or lorries to plunder for fuel and ammo. Despite the unimaginative landscape, it's impressive to see how much has been squeezed into a single megabyte. When required, you can switch from controlling the tank to aiming the turret, allowing for more precise targeting. It rarely changes much beyond rocky fields of peaks and troughs, with a river at one end which tests your shelling abilities before moving on to the next round. The diversity of terrain, aside from the actual topography of the landscape, is rather disappointing, however. Brilliant programming ensures the game runs smoothly with your tank up to full speed. Trundling over the undulating 3D environments is a joy. The levels are admirably simple, requiring you to clear the area of enemy tanks so your troops can advance to the next sector. The Allied and Soviet armies advance on Germany from either side, while the Germans attempt to break through the East and West blockades. Tank Ace 1944 places you in the driving seat of a World War II tank on one of three sides: Allied, German or Soviet. The lack of effort to get the most out of the device, however, smacks of apathy and disinterest, especially for a full price game. Not to say that Tank Ace 1944 is a poor game – far from it. The bad news is this is a pixel-perfect conversion of a format that doesn't boast motion sensitive controls, and therefore finds itself seriously lacking on the iPhone. Instead, this iPhone conversion of the oft-ported portable adventure lacks firepower. ![]() With Tank Ace 1944, that expectation is unfortunately not met. Any lack of accelerometer-driven interaction is noticeable by its absence. iPhone games have only been around less than a month and already we're expecting a lot of the handset. Note: RESETgame does not condone invasion of other countries and cannot accept liability for such an event.How fickle we gamers can be. Enemy trucks carrying rounds, fuel, and armor. Three tanks: Sherman, Tiger, or T34, each with movable turret and cannon. Play one of three aces: Allied, German, or Soviet. Either way the brass will want to have a talk with you. The game ends when you take the enemy capitol, or they overrun yours. If you wipe out the enemies you will advance one sector, retaining any excess supplies you have scavenged. If you run out of fuel or armor, or for some reason drive your tank into the water, in addition to an untimely death you will be forced to retreat one sector. The last three can be replenished by ramming (not shooting) an enemy truck. Skills you will need to accomplish this are a working trigger finger, the ability to navigate west or east, and driving ability sufficient to crash into other vehicles.Ī status panel shows the number of enemies left, rounds remaining, fuel, and armor strength. The goal of each round of play is to clear the enemy from a map sector and drive them off the far bank of a river so that your side can cross and advance. But since you face overwhelming odds and are forced to scavenge supplies as you go, you might just find yourself retreating instead. At least that's what the orders from HQ say. Allied and Soviet Tank Aces advance on Berlin German Aces advance on London and Moscow. In the game you command a World War II tank charging to occupy the enemy capitol. Tank Ace Reloaded is the next generation tank warfare game from the makers of Tank Ace 1944. ![]()
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