This is a game in which you control a tank in the middle of a battlefield. Enemy tanks slowly advance towards their goal - command headquarters. Your job is to defend by destroying the enemy tanks as they approach... and so goes the accompanying informative instruction booklet.

Sounds exciting, doesn't it? Well, I'm afraid that Tank Battalion is nowhere near as exciting as it sounds. Basically, you take pot shots at the enemy tanks as they ramble around the screen and if you manage to destroy 20 before they blow up the command headquarters, which incidentally is represented as a flower, you go on to the next screen to do the whole thing all over again.

Your tank is a simple character, not a sprite, resembling a tank and the enemy tanks are just the same apart from their colour. Sound isn't very exciting either. There are some nice touches to this game, such as different street patterns for successive screens, realistic explosions, two players option and nice tunes, but at £23.95, I honestly can't recommend it.

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