this is not necessarily a bad review but i also have some disappointments with it,
for a start Tank Universal is an old ass game now i played it when i was a little kid years ago off WildTangent Games, this game i couldn't find for the longest time i came across finally and found out there was a sequel, i played the first one and beat it and immediately moved on to the sequel, the new systems looked good the updated visuals and frame rate was nice and the and coming from the first game i was actually interested in the story. however some problems i have with this game are nitpicks and not at all integral to the game itself, the game works and plays as far i can tell.
as for my problems with it it mostly comes down to the first game, for a start the new systems are kinda a pain in the ass, it feels too simulator if thats the right word for it, the 1st game was Arcadey, every enemy has so much health and you knew exactly how many shots or what method to kill them, lights where fast but 1 hits kill and threatening in higher numbers, medium tanks where higher damage but 2 hit kill, evade their shots and hit them before they hit you, artillery was 1 hit kill but was far to the back near the enemies base, they could cause problems to network missions and were decently threatening watching as a volley of red missiles travel from the enemies wall right to your allies sitting and spinning because their AI broke, suicide where very fast and dangerous but a charged attack near them could kill them instantly an give tons of power shards, and heavy tanks where very dangerous but could be out manoeuvred while you charge up a shot to deal huge damage. In TU2 it feels like the only tanks that are still how they used to be are the light and suicide tanks, the medium tanks take so many hits to kill, especially on network missions if there are too many your better off just bailing on your own tank and finding a new one because they kill super fast but it takes 7 plus shots to kill 1 medium tank and they are the main tank the enemy deploys. along with that because they kill so fast your systems go down instantly especially if you have no armour active it feels unnecessarily difficult but maybe i just miss the arcade elements of the TU1
next complaint i have it the level design, ive been in the same field/canyon for 2 hours, its like the level design just vanished, all the unique locations and vast monolithic structures are gone, like the chasm with the sheep mini-game or the tower with the high council all these unique locations are non existent as far as ive played so far, its just valley with trees and walls on the outside of the map, and some distant towers, like i get we are leaving the area around Sector City but is there nothing out there besides a stone village in each level and some towers it just feels like this vast world doesn't really feel so vast now.
with that my final gripe is actually dumb but i miss the old characters models, making them people and not the blue red and green dwellers of this cyber world just looks kinda weird to me, also i cant take Turx seriously when he looks like someones Uncle lol, its a dumb problem i have but it not the end of the world i think its weird though how all the people we meet in the game are all like alien looking cyber people but Turx and the one woman from the gorgonopolis cutscenes are human beings
anyway like i said this isnt a negative review the games fun and if you like half simulated half Arcady tank games this and the first game are good fun, i just thing some changes from the first game are unnecessary and that TU2 is kinda barren compared to the first game, NOTE: i have 2 hours in this and haven't finished this game yet but as of where im up to which is maybe mission 9 this is the opinion i have of this game so far, Dev made a fun game and he did a good job on it but i prefer the first game
