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Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the best game ever. Much butter then then Robot Arena 1. The game has great physics where you can be lifted off the ground flips and sometimes sent flying by another robot. The robot workshop is really cool have unlimited possibilities. I can't stop playing the game because of the great fighting with four robots. The game also is realitsic and anyone who doesn't like this game is surely "blind"

Annoying

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Before we start I would like to say that I am an avid RC car user and have about ten. I have also made my own robot so I know what I'm talking about!

This game is very annoying. In the bot building mode you cannot change your chassis without erasing all of the components in the bot. Also in the bot builder mode you have to keep the robot's height in 90 degree angels to beable to add any mapping.The wiring mode is easy to do but you have to get used to it. There are some problems with realism in battling. First of all the one time I was fighting in a match with a spinner, my robot flew up about 50 feet in the air and fell out of the arena. Another time, my spinner hit another robot and it disapeared. Also the one time a robot was launched 50 feet into the air and fell down and took no damage.The robot A.I. is stupid, they will often drive them off the arena or into a pit.Finally the game crashes after about an hour of gameplay. Right now this game is very glichy when a new patch to fix these problems this game could be very fun.

Windows killer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: December 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I downloaded and played the demo on my Windows XP box. After 30 minutes it expires and took my sound devide with it. I should have known better when it said it wanted me to install DirectX 8.1 (as of this writing the current directX is 9.0.x).

For a marginally interesting game it's not worth the damage that resulted. BTW, I had to uninstall my sound device and let plug and play find it again to get sound back on my PC.

Buyer beware.

game would be great if multiplayer worked right

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is a good one only if you like playing single player.there have been so many problems with multiplayer that game is almost impossible to play against anyone else.if you go to the aceuplink site you will see all the post about the multiplayer problems.despite all the post and emails to gabriel and infogrames they have done nothing to fix mutliplyer.its been over 3 months and still there is no fix for the MP problems.it looks like the makers of the game are giving up on RA2.nothing is being said about a fix and now the offical RA2 site is closed.playing single player is all played out and game is not fun unless we can play MP.if multiplayer problems are fixed game would be great.

Just to correct the latest review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

You can definitely mod the game, and that is what makes it so great. Aceuplink (it's a webiste, hint hint, wink wink, try and guess the extension) has tons of mods in the forums. The new DSL mod will comlpetely change the game, and make it into Robot Arena 3 for all intensive purposes. We are adding real life motors and batteries and probably quadrupling the components. Also, new arenas, new game types, new user interface, new AI (based off real life robots).

PS-The game is awesome, closest thing you'll probably ever find to real life robot combat.

barbre's review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Please ignore the review by barbre ("Windows killer"), as it is filled with misinformation and, quite frankly, stupidity.

I will address the rest to barbre him/herself...

About the sound card - If you had cared or had the intelligence to look more carefully, you would have checked the master volume controls, and seen that Wave is muted. No need to uninstall your sound card and "let plug and play find it".
Your comment about DirectX ("I should have known better...") is one of the dumbest things I have heard in a long time - "Oh no, version 9 is newer than 8.1, so 8.1 will surely destroy my computer!" - and given the fact you're running the abominable, sickening, eye-candy-filled terrible excuse for an operating system called Windows XP, I must come to the conclusion you are, indeed, of very little brainpower.

So, everyone: Do ignore that review until Amazon (hopefully) deletes it.

(Oh, and the game is great. 5 stars easily.)

Cool Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is not like the other games out there, it actually allows you to build your own robot without using default chassis. (You can edit pre-made chassis though).The fact that you can design the chassis using a grid is amazing. And you don't have to worry about money when building the robots.

P.S.: I had no problems playing it on my computers. I have one with Windows 2000, and one with Windows XP.

Nothing else like it, great value

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The "quality/price ratio", as I like to call it, is incredible on this game. You can design and customize your robots to fine detail.

You start by building a chassis (bot shape); then you add battery packs, motors, tires, weapons, and other gadgets; you then specify the controls for your new robot;followed by a custom paint job and textures (complete with brushed metal and scratches).

After testing your bot to make sure you programmed it correctly, you can put it in an arena with up to four other bots (computerized or humans via LAN or Internet) and endure massive carnage.

The battle physics are incredibly lifelike. My favorite aspect is the damage you can inflict. A good hit to the armor of an enemy bot with a sledge hammer will create a very believable dent, possibly breaking off their weapon or one of their wheels.

If you've ever seen those battle bot TV shows... Robot Arena: Design and Destroy is very close to the real thing. I gave it four stars only because you cannot expand on the game with mods. Unless, of course, I'm mistaken.

Much improved!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is much improved over it's predecessor. Many more options, your bots are really customizable now! The lost point is due to AI that is a little easy, and the fact that it can be really tricky to get a bot that is perfectly aligned so the wheels drive right.

Great Game...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all...any person who says this game isn't great obviously is blind...it's the ultimate robot building & Fighting experience...the bot lab is great, and the gameplay rocks, i admit the multiplayer could use some tweaking but other than that i give this game 5 stars...and i'm very thankful that they made the game so it's like you are there controlling an actual robot thank god for HAVOK!

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