• Various types of battle tank games can be played online for free.Tank image by JASON WINTER from Fotolia.com
  
  Individuals looking to play military-inspired action games while browsing the Internet may consider various types of battle tank games. Featuring different war scenarios, these video games put the player in charge of large military tanks while facing other opponents equipped with similar tanks. Opposing players' military headquarters must be destroyed to win most of these action games.
  
  

Big Battle Tanks

• While using your computer keyboard's directional buttons to move your tank's turrets in the right position, Big Battle Tanks offers up multi-player modes, including death match. This mode allows you to compete against other online players while traversing a rocky landscape while you look for other tanks to destroy, thus winning the game if you have defeated all opponents.
  
  

Tank Melee

• To win this single-player game, you guide your tank through enemy lines and destroy all enemy outposts and headquarters. Your military tank is equipped with machine gun turrets, flame throwers, grenade launchers and rockets that are used to destroy and eliminate all opposition to your challenge of making it out of enemy lines intact.
  
  

Tank Battles

• Developed by video game design company Gameloft, Tank Battles is a downloadable PS3 game that features a basic campaign mode along with a multi-player mode. While controlling your well-equipped military tank through a series of increasingly difficult scenarios, you have to complete 50 levels of military action to reach the end of this game. When using your tank's missiles to take out advancing enemy targets, you can also drop land mines so that enemies following you will be blown up.
  
  

Battle Tanks

• Owners of the Xbox gaming system that are also connected to the Internet can download Battle Tanks to their console via Xbox Live. This military action game places you in the driver's seat of a large battle tank as you attempt to defend your own military base from other tanks and enemies. You can also play this game with a friend as both of you power up your tank's weaponry by rolling over various power-up icons located throughout this game's environment.