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TGS: Tank! Tank! Tank! four-player Wii U My Kong Mode I had a go at the new four-player mode for upcoming Wii U game Tank! Tank! Tank! here at TGS 2012. Namco Bandai calls it My Kong Mode, and they say it's a perfect fit for their casual party battle title. The game also includes a free-for-all mode, a team vs. mode, and a "fight against giant monsters" mode, but we'll be focusing on Kong mode here. The Kong mode has up to three players using standard Wii Remotes (in the sideways-held controller mode) to drive tanks, trying to take down a giant "Kong" robot, controlled by a fourth player using the Wii U game pad. The Kong player will use the Wii U pad's screen to attack the tanks while the others view a split screen configuration on the television. The attackers are free to drive around the stage picking up power-ups to add weapons to their arsenal, using anything they can find to chip away at the Kong's huge life bar. Before starting My Kong Mode, every player will use the Wii U game pad's front-facing camera to create a portrait. They're free to chose some funny overlays to turn their face into something more cartoon-y. The portrait taken for the Kong player is used as the face of the Kong, which means that you'll be shooting at the real-world face of your opponent. With the given tools it's pretty easy to make some funny faces.
As a tank player, game play involves frantically driving around looking for openings to fire on the massive Kong. While stages are large, they're still fenced in, which means that you can run, but not hide. Finding randomly scattered power-ups lets you hit the the Kong with a bit more firepower than you'd have with the standard weapon. Outside of this, playing as a tank could not be more simple, as you can only drive and shoot. The Kong player gets an overhead view of the map and others players on the Wii U game pad's screen. Using the L and R buttons the player can use hand slap or fist smash moves to smack around tanks. Flicking the controller downward lets the Kong do a butt smash on tanks, taking them out completely, and shaking the controller powers the Kong up, making it glow gold with power. The goal is to use these tanks to survive long enough for a countdown timer to complete. Tank! Tank! Tank!'s My Kong Mode is pretty simple, but I could definitely see it being a hit with friends as a party game. The game is slated for the Wii U launch window. Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)We were mocking Tank! Tank! Tank! In the chat during E3, but it looks pretty awesome.
Not full price awesome, but awesome none the less. "The Kong mode has up to three players using standard Wii Remotes (in the sideways-held controller mode) to drive tanks, trying to take down a giant "Kong" robot, controlled by a fourth player using the Wii U game pad. The Kong player will use the Wii U pad's screen to attack the tanks while the others view a split screen configuration on the television."
Asynchronous multiplayer using the of the most rudimentary controller, and all doing things that sound perfectly capable on current systems. Behold, the unlocked possibilities of Nintendo hardware! As a person who has played this game on an actual arcade machine, this game is amazing. I'll pick it up whenever I get a Wii U. We have this machine in the arcade I work at and it I pretty fun, the Kong mode looks like a fun addition.
Hopefully I'll get to beat the damned mossy building boss in the home version. This actually does look really fun. There are too many launch games that look amazing, though, so this one will have to take a back seat for a while. I played this at an arcade in Disney World, it was pretty fun. There was a camera in the machine to allow you to paste your face onto your char. Whats to stop people from taking pictures of their privates and using that as the picture of the kong??? This is a wii ware title right? I can definitely see myself picking it up for some silly fun with friends but if it's retail it'd be madness! Mercenary Kings will be playable at PAX East2D action game Mercenary Kings continues to look nice in the latest screenshots posted by developer Tribute Games in a Kickstarter update. As you'll recall, the title was successfully funded last year and managed to raise eno... more God of War: Ascension single-player demo in the worksThe half-minute teaser video for single-player in God of War: Ascension looked good, but there wasn't a whole lot of substance to be found in the footage. Thankfully, the powers that be are gearing up to put multiplayer on th... more Project X Zone getting localized, coming to North AmericaProject X Zone, the crazy crossover game featuring Namco Bandai, Capcom, and Sega characters all working together, is coming to North America! Namco will be bringing the role-playing fighting game hybrid to North American, Eu... more Street Fighter X Mega Man unofficially hits MacCapcom made the decision to bring Street Fighter X Megaman solely to PCs initially so that they could test the download count -- but despite the fact that they still could have tested it for Mac based systems, they never repr... more The Street Fighter X Mega Man update is hereRemember when Capcom released Street Fighter X Mega Man without a number of core features -- like, oh I don't know, a password or a save system?Well, they had a change of heart, and now you can reap the benefits of fan demand... more Become a cowboy detective in browser game WesteradoDeveloped by Ostrich Banditos and published on Adult Swim's website, the cleverly titled Westerado has you running around the Wild West to perform odd jobs and, eventually, find out enough information to track down the scumba... more Gas Powered Games sees layoffs, might close KickstarterWhen thinking of what-if scenarios that you wouldn't want to happen while running a Kickstarter campaign, I feel like "layoffs" would be up there pretty high. Days after seeking crowdfunding support for its action-RPG/RTS Wil... more Interview: Disney Infinity's John Blackburn on toysAn hour after taking the stage to unveil Disney Infinity, "Disney's most ambitious video game initiative ever" (a press release states), I sat down with Avalanche Studios chief creative officer John Blackburn to discuss where... more Have a short God of War: Ascension single-player teaserMuch of the promotional work on God of War: Ascension has been centered around the game's new multiplayer mode. Which is fine, but I think most long-time fans will be buying this prequel for its single-player campaign, leavin... more Assassin's Creed III DLC is now available on the Wii UFor weeks now, Ubisoft has remained tight-lipped in regards to Assassin's Creed III DLC on the Wii U. We knew it was confirmed, but we had no dates or confirmation of which pieces would be coming. As of now, the Hidden Secret... more |     Dtoid is... Dale North Editor-in-Chief Jim Sterling Reviews Editor Hamza Aziz Dir. Communications Conrad Zimmerman Managing Editor Jordan Devore PC Editor Andy Dixon Community Manager Rick Olson Dtoid.TV Producer Niero Gonzalez Publisher Editors Meet the team Our sites Flixist Japanator Tomopop Contact Us Suggest News Advertising General Info  |
8:15 AM on 09.20.2012
