Battle Tanks – fun and dynamic game

Battle Tanks is a fast 2D tank arcade game with multiplayer and split-screen modes.

“Battle Tanks” is billed as a funny battle on your desk, where you can choose one of three vehicles and eliminate your enemy using a whole arsenal of weapons.

It has original cartoon-like graphics and cool music, it is fun and dynamic, it has several network modes for deathmatch and cooperative — what else is needed to have fun with your friends? And all is packed and ready for you in “Battle Tanks”.

Features include:

• Multiplayer game. Network game and split screen mode are available, and also a mixed mode is possible, when two players use split screen on the server computer, and others connect via LAN. Two modes are available: deathmatch battle and cooperative game.
• Builders of “Battle Tanks” love these good old arcades of the past century. So they have tried hard to implement everything best of these old arcade games.

Performance characteristics:

• Three vehicles: Tank, Shilka, and rocket launcher. Each vehicle has its special features.
• Lots of weapons:
  • Four types of ammo:
    • “Eternal fire” type tank shell.
    • Shell with laughset focal point.
    • Explosive shell.
    • Dirt gun.
  • Six types of rockets:
    • Homing Missile.
    • Uncontrolled rocket.
    • Boomerang rocket.
    • Gas rocket.
    • Stop-rocket.
    • Nuclear missile “Pure Thermonuke”.
  • Landing troops: Machine gun and rocket troopers.
  • Mines.
  • MG turret.
• 13 Multiplayer maps (nine for deathmatch and four for cooperative mode) in different locations such as city, village, forest, desert etc.
• Game world that reacts on player. Roads have traffic, buildings can be destroyed, weather effects are simulated…
• Lots of war objects: troops, vehicles, helicopters and other.
• Keyboard and gamepad are supported.

Website: btanks.sourceforge.net
Support:
Developer: Netive Media Group
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Battle Tanks is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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