Panzer Knights

Basically if you've played World of Tanks, then you no doubt understand the controls and likely have a decent idea of the overall gameplay. And the artistic style is pretty cute, fun and continued throughout the game, if a little overdone with 'character' appearances and dialogue. The variety of vehicles and the realistic control, such as slow heavy armoured tanks taking great difficulty with traversing terrain, or quick light armoured nimble Panzer II or III'S being very fast and efficient. The mechanics of the game are severely lacking, and when considering what the developers were likely aiming for, could be thought of as none existent. World of Tanks have mechanics that make the game tactical, for example a bush or a rock will provide you cover, one is visible cover, the other is hard defensive cover. But the tanks in that game have mechanics that make it a fair fight, rocks or ground can be used to reduce your silhouette so the enemy has less of target to shoot at, buildings and other destroyed tanks be used as a shield to stop shells from hitting you. This game does not do that, think of it as the most poorly implemented arcade version of what someone thinks World of Tanks is. I tried to use a rock to hide behind whilst firing at a group of enemy tanks, the rounds went through the rock. The odd chance the enemy misses is a miracle, and the majority of the time you will be fighting against tanks that can absolutely pound you in the dust. You think the enemy will target you from afar, which they do, and they hit you from afar. But the enemy will bum rush up to you in as short a time as possible to get a point blank shot. The enemy tanks are completely immobile until you shoot them or get within five foot of them. As in, they will not even recognise you exist until you engage them first. The game could have been amazing, the style is banking on the Girls Und Panzer stereotype, but the mechanics are abysmal and the re-playability is completely pointless.

Really can use a big patch to fix bugs and assets. Bugs such as even the best guns bouncing off tanks that it should 1-shot easily. Rounds that disappear into thin air or hitting objects in the path while being not even near the flight path of the round. Bridges often have gaps between the bridge and land, making it rather awkward. lots of assets look sloppy and unfinished. Draw distance is very close, so you see a lot of assets suddenly pop in while crops mostly cause major lag issues (anything really on farm fields) The idea is great, but it seriously lacks a lot. I really would love to see the bugs being fixed and the unfinished assets getting final touches. It would have been great if you had a actual tech tree so you can unlock things that way, similar to World of Tanks for example. Vehicles can be too sluggish making you fall asleep during driving. Tactics or trying to hit specific points doesn't really seem to matter. Which is rather awkward and silly. Should really get promoted for trying to use tactics and hitting specific points. Would I like to see more of this game? Well, after getting those fixes in it's a decent game I guess. The idea is good as I already mentionedd, so it can work if finished properly. Also playing as the Germans will most likely cause a lot of eyebrows to raise. Specially as angry mustage man is mentioned quite often. It would be a lot better if you had the allies added to it, let's say the British or Americans.

It's a fun game to play, not overly complicated and fun to play.

anime looks, cartoony history, but complex enough missions

I just wanted to leave this here to tell people before buying, gamepad controls do not detect the right stick. So you can't turn the camera. Mostly everything else is bound to the gamepad but not turning the turret/camera. So just beware, mouse & keyboard only