Some weapons have a hidden "super shot", which deploys a more powerful version (that uses up all of its reserves) if activated when the player has an overabundance of it in reserves.
The game is set in post-apocalyptic near-future 2006, five years after Griffin Spade rescued his fiancée Madison from the armies of the "Dark Alliance" and ruled the city of San Francisco as Battlelord. The sequel to the 1999 game BattleTanx, Global Assault adds a wide assortment of new playable tanks (bringing the total up to 11), a new assortment of levels spanning both United States and Europe, new multiplayer game modes, and a more detailed story with cutscenes. It was later released in Europe on April 2000 and was released for the Sony PlayStation on Febru(Jin Europe).
BattleTanx: Global Assault is a sci-fi tank combat game developed and published by 3DO for the Nintendo 64 in North America on August 31, 1999.