Rumored to hit Xbox Live Arcade any day now, Heavy Weapon is PopCap's cartoonish tank shooter that is not only easy to control (you merely move left and right, aiming your turret 180 degrees with the right analog stick) it's definitely the easiest game to play at CES. And, yes, I've played Luxor 2.

Your tank constantly moves to the right and the sky is constantly filled with enemy aircraft. Jets, missiles, bombers, helicopters, and zeppelins will do their best (or close to it) to eliminate you by dropping courteously small amounts of missiles and bombs in your general direction.

Along the way, friendly planes will drop power ups to boost your rate of fire, shields and main weapon strength. They'll also drop MEGA LASER parts, which you'll need four of to deploy for a limited time. Finally, they'll drop nukes, which will give you a screen clearing (and boss damaging) megaton explosion.

After defeating the end level boss, you'll be given a chance to upgrade one of your tank's abilities, from defensive enhancements, to new weapons, such as flak cannons, lasers, homing missiles, lightning bolts (!!!) and more.

Frankly, the game was just too easy. I don't know if the difficulty was toned down for the CES demo, or if I somehow missed setting the skill level, but it was absurdly easy to the point of boredom. Granted, this is a PopCap title, but during my co-op run through of five levels, I lost only one tank. Hopefully, the challenge of the game will increase, because there was a simplistic fun about it, but I can see many gamers becoming quickly uninterested. Michael McWhertor

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