Line #11 VideoGame/ThinkTanks

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2	Picture a mix of ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY and]] ''VideoGame/{{BattleZone\|1998}}''. You've got ''[=ThinkTanks=]'', developed by Bravetree Productions and published by Xbox Game Studios.
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4	First released in 2003 for [[Platform/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and Platform/{{Xbox}}, the game featured a simple enough, arcade plot: You've been kidnapped by aliens, and fight your way out. By the way, you're a disembodied brain in a tank who is implied to be the brain of a soldier.
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6	The main attraction of the game which has subsequently died down was multiplayer. The developer has since been absorbed into Garage Games and the game had a short [=F2P=] period from 2009 to 2010, before simply vanishing from the radar altogether, not even being available for purchase from the publisher's site (however, it can still be purchased from Shockwave.com for seven American dollars).
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9	!!This game provides examples of:
10	* CompetitiveBalance: Theoretically it was designed to be this with the three classes of tanks. In practice, it was all [[LightningBruiser high-speed, fast-shooting light tanks all the time]] in multiplayer. Players who tried to compete with the medium and heavy tanks would get utterly destroyed by the light tanks driving circles around them, and the use of the other two classes quickly became an indicator of noobishness.
11	* ExcusePlot: You get kidnapped by aliens and subsequently make explosions happen. Repeat until you run out of tanks.
12	* TankGoodness: The other half of the game's title. You can have the typical [[FragileSpeedster Light]]/[[JackOfAllStats Medium]]/[[MightyGlacier Heavy]] tank choices as per a normal tank game, and you can unlock the [[HoverTank UFO]] which is [[GlassCannon lighter]] than the regular light tank.
13	* GameMod: At one point, entire ''sites'' were devoted just to skins for the game, but now the majority of such skins are hosted off of [[http://www.planetthinktanks2.com Planet ThinkTanks]]
14	* MoreDakka: Sported by the Light Tank, which actually looks like more like a Gatling Gun on treads than an actual tank.

Context VideoGame / ThinkTanks