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Could Be BETTER!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 17
Date: December 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is like the first Robot Arena. I have seen the first Robot Arena's reviews and I can agree. This one is even better. This game has new arenas. Making a robot [is not a bad thing] anymore. You can have a two wheel robot. There is also an arena that you can hit cones, go over ramps, and do other things in the practice arena. Heres something eles you can spry paint your robot. In the first Robot Arena you could be one color. But now you can have any colors you want. But before you do any of that, you can make the shape you want your robot to be.You can score points when you fight. The kinds fights you do are one on one,table match,and more. There are 5 total.There is one more thing you might I say you might get to do spiltscreen. What that means is you can fight at the same time and use the same keyboard. I don't know for sure. .

What a GREAT Game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A long time ago I was bored with my current games so I went out and found a neat looking game called Robot Arena. I took it home and installed it and then played it. After about a day, it started to get repetitive. You can only do so many things. It was an alright-to-bad game. But then Robot Arena 2 came out. It is so much better! You are no longer limited to 5 or 6 chassis designs, you can design your chassis how ever you want! And you arent limited to just 1 step weapons(a saw blade, or a battering ram), in this game you can build in a 3D workspace putting weapons on weapons, and use extenders to build more complex weapons. You can build a motor and then put 3 weapons on it spining around. There are pistons and burst motors to utilize plows sludge hammers and other destructive items. It is a great and fun game! I highly recommend it.

Almost perfect...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: April 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'd give this game 5 stars. It's amazing. There are a few quirks, however, one serious. Multiplayer is very unstable and lags. I'm not the only one who has this problem. If or when a patch is released to correct this problem, I'd give this game 5 stars. Single player is very, very good. The other robots' A.I. can be pretty tough and there are enough arenas and robots to choose from to keep it interesting for awhile. Designing your own robots is a little complex at first and its sometimes difficult to put the compontents exactly where you want them, but once you get passed that, it's some serious fun. The game can be played two player on one computer, but it is not split screen. Often its hard to get a clear camera angle for both players, one disappears off the screen, or you have to place the camera so far back you lose a lot of the detail. The physics are pretty cool, not exactly totally realistic, but now you can flip other robots over, knock over crates and so on. It's a vast improvement from the first Robot Arena. Final word: worth your time, especially if there are future improvements to correct the multiplayer issues.

Impressive!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Great improvment. I played the first one, it was ok for like an hour. Then the monotony really got to you, not enough customizable features...yadda yadda. BUT THIS ONE! this is great! You can COMPLETLY free-draw your bot! Ther is no grid you have to stick to no pre-determined places for motors or weapons, its ALL 100% free-drawn bots. This allows for an extreme measure of imagination. And you know hat that means? Serious reaply factor. It will take you a long time to get sick of this game! Trust me its a great game for the bot builders out there!

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.

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.

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!

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: 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"

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.

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