Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10826 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: BBC Multimedia
• Released on: 2001-11-23
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Manufacturer's Description
New arenas, New Risks, New Challenges. Experience Gladiatorial Combat like you've never known it before! Unleash galvanised mayhem in awesome arenas around the globe, and battle against deadly House Robots Sir Killalot, Sergeant bash , Shunt, Dead Metal and Matilda. Choose to challenge them in previously unseen areas, including an abandoned Military base, a Steelworks and North Sea Oilrig.

Have you got what it takes to avoid the clutches of Sir Killalot and defeat some of the deadliest metal beasts ever seen?

Customer Reviews

Quiet good actually!
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

If you love Robot Wars - you are in heaven
Overall a very nice game. The ability to build robots is brilliant and the number of options for parts are wide. There is a "scrapyard" for cheap bits (ala Star Wars Racer) if you can't afford the normal shop price. Fighting is great fun and control is nicely modelled - i.e. it is very similar to using a radio controlled machine.

Four irritations:

1. The commentry (very FIFA like!) repeats phrases too often, and references parts of robots that are clearly out of play "The chainsaw not making much impression..." that is attached to the robot in the pit!!! THIS GETS IRRITATING.

2. Damage is nicely modelled, but you can never be quite sure how you are doing against the scoring system until the bout ends (like the real thing?). Sometimes you are sure you are winning - but don't, and vice versa.

3. Sometimes you add motors to the robot but it fails to work but still docks the price from your credits! Very irritating. It also seems to add wheels as pairs, but takes them off individually.

4. There is a bug that if you change the screen resolution and then save the game it will not run again on the machine. BBC say patch is on the way, but until then don't fall foul of this.

OVERALL GREAT FUN - CAN'T WAIT TO WIN A COMPETITION AND GET PRIZE MONEY TO UPGRADE MY BOT - what do you mean we bought this for the kids? Anyone who knows Dr.Dudd will know that praise does not come easily from me, especially if there is nothing in it for me financially.

Not just for the kids!
What a wonderful game! I bought this for my Robot Wars-mad children for Christmas, but thought I'd better test it first to make sure it ran okay on our slightly aged PC. It did. And several hours later I was still "testing"!

Its an absolute dream. You can spend many happy hours just tinkering with your design - the options are so many and varied. When you can drag yourself away from the workshop, the battles themselves are wonderful with quite a good commentry (including a pre-fight summary of each 'bot). The new arenas are well worth trying out. And you can even pit your creation against the best of the best - Hypnodisc, Chaos 2, Pussycat - they are all there.

Fantastic!