Military Life: Tank Simulator

Military Life: Tank Simulator, as its name suggests is a game meant to give you control of one of the greatest warmachines ever made, the tank. You will be put to face several missions that involve sabotage, convoy interception and, of course, tank on tank shootouts.

For a simulator, this one is more of a tank driver and shooter. Apart from aiming and firing, there’s nothing else really to simulate. The controls are simple, standard FPS keyboard layout, you have a primary gun to fire and a machinegun to use as a secondary while the canon is reloading, and that’s just about it.

There is no tank customization, repairs are inexistent or any other kind of features or tasks that are involved in simulating tank warfare. You can’t even throw a bucket of water over it to clean ash and dust after completing a mission. Moreover, after a checkpoint is reached, your ammo refills so you won’t even have to simulate wise use of ammo.

Sure, in a tank there’s not much you can do but shoot stuff. Physics are involved in the game but are mostly, if not completely, tied up to aiming and firing. The angle if your shot and the distance of the target should be taken into consideration when you fire so that’s fairly accurate.

On the other hand, your projectiles seem to be made out of dry clay since shooting through the leafs of a tree is out of the question. The tank ammo simply disintegrates on foliage contact. Unless those are steel trees perfectly painted to look like real ones, that would actually make sense.

When you think tanks you think destruction but that’s not really the case here. Buildings go down in one shot and they instantly appear as rubble, you can run through some fences (like a ghost) and others are well too strong for your tank. To make things worse, you can't even stray a few feet away from the roads that are highlighted on the maps so a remotely explorable world is out of the question.

To sum things up, Military Life: Tank Simulator looks good, it offers simple and intuitive gameplay but severely lacks in any real fun. Audio and visual effects are barely decent and enjoyment is crippled by its linearity.