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Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction (PC CD)
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As you might expect, Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction is the game of the TV programme. The aim, put at its simplest, is to build the best robot you can, and watch it destroy the competition--or watch the competition destroy your creation. Your first task, then, has to be to design your own robot. A visit to the shop lets you buy components, or, if the budget is tight, the scrap yard might be a better bet. Weapons, armour and power of some sort are all required, and if there's any money left in the kitty you can add some extras, even down to deciding a paint scheme. When you're happy with your robot, the battle can commence. The Robot Wars arena is reminiscent of the TV programme, and you could content yourself simply with building better and better robots with which to pound the opposition. Alternatively, there's a training ground for honing skills, and a robot trading area, where you can buy and sell bots. There are numerous playing options, ranging from a full tournament to a free-play mode in which you can choose a location depending on how many credits you've won in previous battles. Alternatively, try a Vengeance Battle in which you take on another human's creation. Robot Wars fans will also have access to a Web site where they can exchange robot designs. Robot Wars is an addictive game which is all the more fun if you can play it with a friend. Let the tournament begin! --Sandra Vogel
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5/5 |
What an absolutely fantastic game!
(September 23, 2004) |
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This is a really addictive, fun and fantastic game! The graphics are very good and the game play is excellent. Probably the best part of the game is building your own robot, and buying many other robots that are available e.g. Chaos 2, Hypno Disk, Firestorm etc. There are many arenas that you can battle in and there are many tournaments that can be entered to win money, trophies (to buy more robots and robot parts etc). Robot was really is a great game and I would recommend it to anyone! |
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4/5 |
Quiet good actually!
(July 26, 2002) |
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Robot Wars Arenas of Destruction is fairly good on an AMD Athlon 1900+ 64mbGeForce3Ti and 512mb memory. Bad Points:
1.The houserobots move about five times as fast. i.e. Killalot zooms around the arena.
2.Weapons fly off your and other robots. i.e. Hypnodisc's flywheel flew away!
3.Damage is unrealistic. i.e. great holes in your titanium armour.
4.The options break the game unless you have the patch which fixes it.
5.Commentary doesn't resemble the battle.
6.Secret components don't exist
7.Needs high computer specs.
8.No Pinball, Gauntlet, Sumo Good Points
1.Building a robot is great!
2.Being flipped on the flipper is good
3.Many different arenas.
4.Cheats
5.Well modeled robots
6.Different challenges Other
Robot Wars Arenas of Destruction is based on: Series 3 because of no Refbot who came in Series 4.
A sequel to it Robot Wars Extreme Destruction will be out in November.
With Refbot and Matilda's flywheel and new arenas Overall 8/10 |
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4/5 |
Putting the scrap back into metal!
(April 27, 2002) |
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Overall this is a very good game. The graphics are adequate, the gameplay is amazing but Johnathon Pearce's commentary...annoying. The House Robots are great but unrealistically easy to beat. There's also the problem of loading the thing which made the difference between 4 and 5 stars. It's fun bashing your opponents to shreds, especially later on when you've unlocked some of the better robots like Razer and Pussycat. I think they should have made more real-life robots and less of the BBC's own creations - they suck. |
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4/5 |
A really addictive game.
(April 22, 2002) |
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What can i say, some people have slated this game for poor graphics, poor commentary and loads of bugs. The graphics aren't brilliant but they are fairly good, the comentary does get rather boring and isn't very imaginative or acurate. Oh and as for the bugs they were really beinging to get me down.... that is untill I found a patch that fixed them (yes it did take some serious tracking down *ARGH* but its worth finding). But just a second this game is imense amounts of fun, once its working properly I found that i could quite happily play it for 6 or 7 hours at a time... Yeah it could do with more levels, yes multiplayer over the web would be amazing. Basicaly this is a good game, but it could have been a brilliant game with just a little more work... what a shame. |
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4/5 |
Graphics/sound only average, but very addictive nonetheless
(March 05, 2002) |
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I've seen much better engineered games than this, but the formula is surprisingly addictive, so much so that both my kids burst into tears when Sgt Bash attacked OUR robot and not the opponent we had just pushed into the CPZ - outrageous! There are some irritations- commentary that doesn't follow the action well enough, some confusing rules about what you can/can't include when building your robot, and it's all a bit sluggish between scenes - but all this is compensated for by the fun of battling it out on the arena floor. |
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