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Tanktics: A Strategy Game Without the Zzzzzz\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Pushing strategy gaming into the 21st century Gremlin Interactive presents Tanktics, from DMA Design on PC and PlayStation, the fastest, most original strategy game in the history of the world.\u00a0 Ever!\u00a0 (And we\u2019re not messing).<\/p>\n Like a few others, the object of the game is to lay waste unto thine enemies, destroying their forces, annihilating their base and generally making life unpleasant in a number of creative ways.\u00a0 To achieve world domination you must take control of a heavy-duty, anti-gravity crane.\u00a0 Your crane is quite the most useful piece of hardware since the combined corkscrew and bottle opener was invented.\u00a0 It hovers above a huge 3-Dimensional SVGA polygon landscape.\u00a0 The landscape has been modeled to feature grassy plains, rocky mountains, lakes, lava, quicksand, forests, snow, ice and, of course, sheep!\u00a0 The sheep are important. The crane is controlled with the mouse and swoops and races across the landscape at speeds in excess of very fast.\u00a0 Each crane has a magnet that lets you manipulate, pick up, assemble and control your forces.\u00a0 And what forces do you manipulate?\u00a0 Well, check the name.\u00a0 You don\u2019t think we\u2019d come up with a pun like that without actually featuring tanks\u2026<\/p>\n Tanktics oddly enough, features a lot of tanks.\u00a0 The player\u2019s job is to construct a number of tanks and use these to seek, destroy and make life unpleasant for other people.\u00a0 Every tank in the game is modular, with tracks, engine blocks, weapons and radar control dishes that can be fitted together in different configurations.<\/p>\n Start off with a set of tracks.\u00a0 The player begins the game with a few assorted tank parts and a magical machine which we call the Part-O-Matic\u2122.<\/p>\n In order to create the tank parts, your Party-O-Matic needs a supply of resources.\u00a0 Yes, yes, I know what you\u2019re thinking, but in Tanktics there are no \u2018Harvesters\u2019, \u2018valuable minerals\u2019 or ore with a stupid name.\u00a0 The Part-O-Matic can use pretty much anything on the landscape – tank parts (yours or the enemies), boulders, sheep\u2026\u00a0 Once started, the Part-O-Matic\u2122 spits out bits and pieces of tanks in a never ending stream of death and destruction.\u00a0 Using your crane\u2019s magnet or grabbers you pick up a likely looking set of tracks and drop them somewhere safe.\u00a0 Now you need an engine block or two.<\/p>\n The more engines you fit to your tank, the faster it will be.\u00a0 You grab an engine block and take it back to the tracks.\u00a0 Hovering above the tracks you release the engine.\u00a0 Wheeeeeee!\u00a0 Splat! it goes, as it bonds firmly with the tracks.\u00a0 You haven\u2019t even marveled at the lovingly crafted \u2018splat\u2019 animation since you\u2019re already racing back to the Part-O-Matic in search of more parts.\u00a0 Another engine block – another splat!\u00a0 But, careful now!\u00a0 You can put together a maximum of ten parts of tank so, perhaps now you might like to go and look for some nice weapons.\u00a0 The Part-O-Matic has already coughed out a huge sinister looking gun that looks like it shoots bullets the size of office blocks.\u00a0 \u201cNeat!\u201d you cry excitedly and charge forward, but your companions and playmates have also spotted the gun that we like to call \u2018Mr. Eviscerator\u2019.\u00a0 You all charge into the fray, magnets a-buzzing\u2026<\/p>\n Once you\u2019ve built tanks to your taste you\u2019ve got to drop a radar dish onto the top of each tank in order to activate it.\u00a0 An exciting feature is the fact that whoever drops a dish onto a tank, controls that tank. \u00a0Imagine the surprise on your friends faces when you swish into their base, drop a radar dish on a HUGE battle tank that they\u2019ve spent 10 minutes constructing\u00a0 and then blast lumps out of him\/her.<\/p>\n Of course, the way you construct your tanks affects how you will be able to play the game.\u00a0 A dozen huge ferocious tanks will be able to chew their way through almost any obstacle but a couple of tanks composed of nothing but engines might be able to steal your flag and be off on their tracks before your monsters know what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n With over 70 unique weapons within the game the choices are huge\u2026<\/p>\n A Strategy Game 65 Million Years in the making<\/p>\n Tanktics features four distinctive Eras for the player to try.\u00a0 Stone-age features huge tanks carved out of massive chunks of granite.\u00a0 Slow movers but don\u2019t let them get too close.\u00a0 Medieval tanks are constructed like castles.\u00a0 Stone and wood with all of the heraldry and frilly bits.\u00a0 Modern tanks are mean no-nonsense cold-war chunks o\u2019 metal, sinister and deadly.\u00a0 While the future tanks have cool options like hovering and long-range weapons that Darth Vader would chew his sons remaining arm off for.<\/p>\n Each era contains enough tank parts to offer over 2 Million possible combinations of tank.\u00a0 Enough to keep even the saddest strategy freaks (i.e. us) happy for an amazing amount of time.\u00a0 When you combine the different eras in a single or multi-player game, where you can mix and match components from different eras, the number of different tank combination rises to approximately 3×1011.\u00a0 That\u2019s a lot of Tanks.<\/p>\n The eras have all been modeled so that no one era has a particular advantage over another era.\u00a0 The Future tanks will have a hard time beating the Stone-Age tanks and we love it that way.<\/p>\n You Can Change The Laws of Physics<\/p>\n But why would you want to?\u00a0 Tanktics has been modeled with an amazing amount of detail.\u00a0 A lot of effort has gone into accurately modeling the physical world of the game.\u00a0 The magnetic attraction and repulsion of the cranes has been modeled superbly.\u00a0 The inertia, momentum and movement of the crane while carrying a weight has been hand-crafted by experts.<\/p>\n Tanktics also features full interaction with the various elements found within the game.\u00a0 Tanks and tank parts that end up in water will become water-logged and heavy.\u00a0 Wooden tanks that come into contact with fire or lava can catch fire and burn.\u00a0 Fire spreads from one tank to anther until you can send them into a lake or an area covered in snow.<\/p>\n Tanktics is set to redefine the standard for strategy games.\u00a0 The speed and detail of the game has to be seen to be believed (honestly – I weep when I see it).\u00a0 Tanktics also has a feature that has been overlooked and ignored in the majority of strategy games for far too long – humor.\u00a0 Yes, we\u2019ve created a fast, slick, funny game that loses none of the strategy elements.\u00a0 With it\u2019s unique control and gameplay elements and superb graphics Tanktics is gonna be the biggest strategy game – ever.<\/p>\n Featuring :<\/p>\n For more information contact:<\/p>\n Steve McKevitt<\/p>\n Tel: 0114-2639900\u00a0 Fax: 0114-276-8581<\/p>\n E-mail: stevemc@gremlin.co.uk<\/p>\n Martin Bramall<\/p>\n Tel: 0114-2639900\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fax: 0114-276-8581<\/p>\n E-mail: martinbram@gremlin.co.uk<\/p>\n Michelle Kelso<\/p>\n Tel: 0114-2639900\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fax: 0114-2768581<\/p>\n E-mail: michelle@gremlin.co.uk<\/p>\n\n\n