DHGF: If you’ve ever considered roasting ants with a magnifying glass to be in poor form on account of the ants being unable to fight back, Bugs vs. Tanks! has you covered. You can blow away ants, bees, and moths guilt free as they assault your base and eat your comrades while you wage war with insects using miniature tanks. Everything from the presentation to the gameplay is a bit on the simplistic side and while this does mean it’s easy for anyone to pick up and play, there’s also a lack of variety in the mission structure and environments. It may be below par for designer Keiji Inafune, but Bugs vs. Tanks! still succeeds in providing a few hours of mindless entertainment involving tanks, something that’s hard to be too upset about.
"I’m not really sure what intrigued me so much about Bugs vs. Tanks. Perhaps it’s my real-life fear of bugs and the added satisfaction of blasting them to pieces with a tiny virtual tank. Whatever the case, the game is passable, but it hasn’t aged terribly well," writes Cliff at Game Freaks 365.
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BUGS vs TANKS! is a top-down action game from Level-5 and Comcept. You best know Comcept as the studio recently formed by Keiji Inafune, the creator of Dead Rising, Mega Man, and other great games from Capcom. BvT! is the second game in the GUILD02 trilogy of experimental games proceeded by last month's The Starship Damrey. The trilogy itself is the second after last year's GUILD01 was released for the Nintendo 3DS. BvT!'s title is self-explanatory, much like PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies games, as you play as a tank well, fighting bugs. Unlike PvZ, BvT! is very much a strategic action game as opposed to a strategic tower defense game.
