BattleTanx: Global Assault is a 1999 tank action game for the Nintendo 64, developed and published by The 3DO Company. It is the sequel to the previous year's BattleTanx, which won its audience with a simple, irresistible pitch: take a tank, flatten everything in your way, and defend your base while you do it.

The series is set in a post-apocalyptic America where armed gangs fight over ruined cities with fleets of armoured vehicles. Global Assault widens that conflict and brings a broader selection of tanks and weapons. The gameplay mixes straightforward destruction with light tactics — holding key points on the map, managing ammunition, and picking the right machine for the job at hand.

Multiplayer was the real selling point. With four controller ports built in, the Nintendo 64 was made for shared-screen sessions, and BattleTanx leaned into that hard; its multi-player battle modes were the reason many owners kept the cartridge in the console long after finishing the campaign.

Today it reads as a textbook late-90s console action game: no pretensions, quick pacing, and living-room fun above all. The 3DO Company itself folded in 2003, which makes titles like this one a reminder of the label's strongest years.

The single-player campaign rolls through ruined American cities in short, punchy missions, and the controls never ask for more than movement, fire and a special weapon — a directness that makes the game easy to pick back up decades later without relearning anything.

Its OldGame.cz page brings together the release year, the studio behind it and screenshots taken straight from the battlefield.