The new game World of Tanks sounded to Gaming Heaven to likely be an intricate tank simulator with complexity on the level of a Jane’s Aircraft Sim, so when they realized the tank was controlled via WASD and the mouse they were quite taken aback.  Their preconceptions couldn’t be further from the truth, this is more of an MMO with a bit of RPG elements and a whole bunch of HE shells.  In one case they saw about 60 tanks running amok blowing each other to Kingdom Come.  Their were a few balance issues in the preview that they tried which you can read about here.

“The title of the game conjours up images of those macho magazine subscriptions that come with a hardback folder as a free gift with issue one. As such expect a dry, technical tank based simulation with loads and loads of information for military enthusiasts and a technically accurate control system that requires reading a five hundred page manual, right?”

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