No, it’s not Sheryl Crow’s old pet name for Lance Armstrong. (Get it? He only has ONE BALL!!!)
Tank Ball is a really fun and simple multiplayer arena game where you join a team of off-road tanks that blast over-sized dodgeballs at each other.

The graphics are all 3d, and pretty well done to boot. The forest-like island you play on has tons of variety in the terrain and foliage and the tanks themselves interact with some nice physics. The explosion effects are pretty lame, but still forgivable.

The music and sound are pretty basic, nothing fancy, but no ear-rape either.

The gameplay is, at the core, very basic. You move forward or backward, and steer left and right, with one button to fire. The fun comes in the physics and speed. You can’t aim your guns up and down so you need to get your tank on level ground to get a clear shot. Holding still is usually bad strategy so you end up driving like a drunk-to-the-gills redneck and firing at tanks and trees alike.

The only thing I really hate about this game is the lack of a game setup screen so you can actually play with your friends. For the most part you just get dumped in a random game with random people. That said, blowing up perfect strangers is still pretty damn fun.

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