Four tanks. One screen. No teams.

Pick a hull, pick a paint, and fight it out in an arena that was built the moment the round started. Crates splinter, drums go up and take their neighbours with them, and the camera pulls back to keep every survivor in frame — so there is nowhere to hide and nothing to camp behind for long.

Sit down and play

• One to four players on one screen. Keyboard plus up to four gamepads;whoever does not turn up is replaced by a bot.

• Rounds — last tank standing; first to 3, 5, 10 or 15 round wins.

• Deathmatch — three, five or ten minutes, nobody eliminated. Die and yourespawn on your own base, already invulnerable. Highest score at zero takes it.

• Every match is stock on both sides. Nothing you unlock elsewhere followsyou into a versus match — the only thing that decides it is who is driving.

Six hulls, six second weapons

The cannon is the same for everyone. What is bolted on beside it is not:

• Brawler — Rocket. Lobbed over cover onto a fixed spot, with abarrel-sized blast. Middling reach, middling wait — the all-rounder every otherweapon trades away from.

• Longshot — Lance. A bolt that does not stop. It opens every crate on theline in one pass and hits every tank standing behind them. No blast at all, so ithas to be genuinely aimed.

• Bulldog — Grenade. A short throw on a fuse that bounces off walls andkeeps rolling after it lands — the one shot you can put somewhere you cannot see.Hardest hit in the game.

• Scout — Mine. Set down behind the hull and left armed, three at a time.Never a danger to you, and the only weapon that pays for running away.

• Siege — Barrage. One heavy round that comes apart where it lands andwalks five blasts across the ground. Twice anything else's reach, and long enoughin the air to be walked out of.

• Hexer — Hexbolt. A slow bolt that skips off four walls before it goesoff. Unavoidable down a lane, easy to dodge in the open — and after the firstbounce it belongs to nobody.

They are sidegrades, not a ladder.

Six worlds

Depot, Forest, Desert, Island, Arctic and Volcano — each with its own ground, its own cover, its own light and its own weather. A fresh layout every single round.

Adventure: 300 levels, solo

Six areas of fifty levels. The arena grows from a yard to a field, the crews get sharper, and new enemy hulls arrive one lesson at a time — the Scout teaches you to watch your back, the Hexer teaches you that a wall is not cover. Levels ask one of three things: destroy everything, outlast the waves, or out-score the room before the clock runs out. Every level is the same map on every retry, so a level worth learning is worth learning.

The garage

Kills, broken crates and cleared levels pay coins. Coins buy the rest of the fleet, open new areas, and raise five stats per hull across ten levels each — but a hull levels in step, so all five have to keep up before any one of them moves on. A full run through the campaign will take one favourite most of the way. It will not max everything, and choosing is the point.

The book

Seventy-seven milestones across sixteen counters, and the only thing in the game that watches every mode — a kill in a four-way brawl counts the same as a kill in Adventure.

Collect a rung and it pays into the campaign purse.