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Custom robo arena

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Custom Robo Arena The weak story leads you by the hand, leaving no room for individual thought. If your looking for a game to mindlessly fight in, good this is for you.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My son just loves it, he was so happy and he enjoys this game a lot!

Must Have for any Ds collection

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game from a store, and I just wanted to say that it is awsome. You are a kid that just moved to a new town, and you join a Custom Robo team Numero Uno to face the Grapple Gang, another rival in school team. From the start of the, you start out with Ray Mk II, a very well balanced robo. Somewhere after that point, you are able to start getting new parts and robos. The story could've probably been better, but it doesn't detract from the overall gameplay. THe graphics for the overhead "Rpgish" mode could've been slightly better, but im not going to argue, because the robos in 3D look great. The game is kinda short(for me anyways), but after you beat the robo cup, you can collect all of the other parts, and even unlock and buy Illegal parts. Also, this game has wifi, so you can fight an opponent many miles away from you online.

Customize like crazy. Repetitive yet addictive.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is not an RPG. Still, the effect of improving customization (better guns, better chassis, etc.) gives the same satisfaction as leveling up a role playing character. The variety of customization is excellent.

The battles are quick and addictive. Try to stop at just one... However the battlefields are too repetitive and many of the same style battles happen over and over and over.

This is realtime, not turn based. So there is a clenching tension about each battle that makes it exciting.

I have a new game I want to play. I've had it for two weeks now. But I can't stop playing this game... Maybe just one more battle.

Fun, but Shallow

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was a lot better than I'd expected it to be. The combat is very simple, fun, and fast-paced, reminiscent of the old arcade game Virtual On. The customization of the game is a little bit like a simplified version of the popular Armored Core series. The story looks and feels just like the Mega Man Battle Network series.

The customization is fun, and the battles are a blast, but that's all you're going to enjoy the game for. The game's story mode is bad, especially when plagued by lame dialogue that can't be skipped. But you have to cringe your way through the story mode in order to collect enough of the many various parts to customize your robo.

The exploration in story mode is very bare. It looks just like Pokemon or the Mega Man Battle Network games, but closer to the latter in which you'll be given simple tasks like "go to point B and talk to person A, return to point A and battle person B, go home". Your home is where you go every night, have a dinner conversation with your family, and go to sleep. Then you wake up, have a breakfast conversation with your family, and go to school.

It's after school that things start to get interesting. You can go to the various parts shops for your robo, buy dioramas to pose your robo in (A time-consuming but addictive affair that is purely cosmetic and doesn't have any affect on gameplay), and visit the local Robo Center where you can battle various AI characters for fun. It all gets old very fast, but you're getting parts and money while you do it, so that should be enough incentive to keep going.

Some touch-screen features are tacked on, like posing your robo in various dioramas, and the need to polish your Custom Robo to keep it clean, because a dirty robo is impaired in battle and nets you less money after a win. Later in the game you unlock a power-up which requires pressing a button on the touch screen, but that could have easily been mapped to a button on the DS, because one button is left unused.

The game's fun really opens up when in battle, where the story mode's AI opponents range from "stand there and do nothing" to "destroy you in seconds". The game's difficulty is unbalanced and occasionally frustrating, but if you fail repeatedly you can retry as many times as you need; the game even offers you handicaps with enough consecutive losses.

Taking the game online is the funnest feature, but you have to make it through the story mode first to really enjoy it.

Here are my overall ratings (1 to 5):

Gameplay: 5
Story: 2
Multiplayer: 5
Graphics and Sound: 4
Value: 5

This is a game that requires a little work on the gamer's part to enjoy, but once you collect enough parts for your robo and you're ready to take on online multiplayer, you have a fun online multiplayer battle game that you'll be playing for a long time.

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