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World of Tanks is a MMO Vehicular Combat game based around... well, what do you think?! It features hundreds of Soviet, German, American, French, British, Japanese, Chinese, Czechoslovakian and Swedish tanks.

Essentially, this game is Tank Goodness incarnate.

You start the game with very basic tank designs barely worthy of the name and proceed to work your way up the tech trees. The tech trees themselves consist of a mixture of vehicles that saw service in their respective armies and vehicles that only made it to the prototype stage or never made it off paper. note The vehicles that did see service often have upgrades available to them that were never adopted in real life, in some cases because they simply couldn't make it fit. All the vehicles featured have been extensively researched and their in-game characteristics are based on their real-world counterparts. Despite that, the controls are relatively simple, and it is most definitely not even anywhere close to being a hardcore sim. The range of tanks available stretches from the 1920s (with a single tank from 1917note The Renault FT, the first tank available in the French line , and its many derivatives) to the 1960s and 1970snote The later Swedish Tank Destroyers are 70's models.

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Vehicles are spread across three categories: tanks, tank destroyers and self-propelled guns. Tanks are the mainstay of each force, with tank destroyers serving sniping and ambush purposes while Self Propelled Guns (SPG) provide artillery support. Tanks are further split into three more categories: light tanks with amazing speed, medium tanks balancing speed, firepower and armour, and heavy tanks focusing on heavy armour and massive firepower.

A card-based MMORTS Spinoff, World of Tanks Generals , was announced by Wargaming.net. There also are spinoffs World of Warplanes and World of Warships which is the same idea, but with warplanes and warships instead.

The Girls und Panzer anime by Studio Actas is often considered to be The Anime of the Game. In a move that surprised no one, the makers of the game and Studio Actas will cooperate in creating in-game exclusive content related to the anime in celebration of the creation of a Japanese server cluster for the game. The game is also getting an official Comicbook Adaptation, "Roll Out", written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Carlos Ezquerra (both already veterans of tank warfare stories from Battle and Ennis's Battlefields stories), and starring Cromwells in the Battle of Normandy.

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