Future Tanks Area

It is a great game, but the camera is awful.

Future Tanks Area is an arcade-like low poly third person/top down (it's hard to say) vehicle shooter where you control a blocky tank and ramble through various levels blasting all your enemies. It's not the worst premise for a game but the implementation is a let down. First up you do get to set the game resolution, so that's a plus. Unfortunately that's about all you can set... there's an ugly screen filter making everything look bloomy and blurry... the game just looks bad because of that and there's no substantial graphics tweaks to try fix the problem. I also don't think this is an asset flip, it seems to be sincerely made, just badly. It's clunky and unpleasant to play... like, there's NO camera controls, so you just have to aim blindly at the side of the screen sometimes hoping you can hit what's shooting you. A laughably bad defect. The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a co…