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4 Rating: 4, Useful: 21 / 23
Date: May 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When I first started playing this game I wasn't impressed. Not until I started playing the "ultra" cheesy story mode. Its silly but the battles make up for the sillyness. Its old school arcade action in which you battle it out with other robots. the best part is finding new parts for the robos in which you can inflict more damage on robos or move quicker to avoid damage. The story mode might get old for some gamers but after you beat that you unlock "arcade mode" which then turns it into a straight "fighter". The two player mode isnt too shabby either, but you have to unlock parts by playing story mode. All in all its a very fun and entertaining game that looks to be made for the younger crowd but it pleases on both levels. younger kids will enjoy the silly story and will be challenged or frustrated by the battles, depending on the kid. The adults will enjoy the battles as cusomization can be quick victory or embarassing defeat. If you like old school fast paced arcade action then this game is for you! Is it a good party game? yes if you spend time in story mode. Its not a game that comes with everything on the table. You have to work for the extra stuff. That can determine whether you buy this game or not. I hope this sheds some light when deciding whether to purchase Custom Robo or not!

Robots fight each other. (Almost like in the intro!)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: June 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Customizing stuff is, in general, a good thing for a video game. Whether it's just choosing armor in a standard RPG, or creating a character from scratch like in some wrestling games, it allows the player to be creative. In this game, creativity is used to blow stuff up. You can pick one of 34 robot types, then arm it with THREE weapons (the pod launches out of a backpack type thing). And shoes. Sure, there aren't that many types of shoes, but there are plenty of weapons. With tons of parts in each catagory (Body, guns, bombs, attack pods, and legs (shoes)), anyone can make their own unique gundam-esque warrior. My robot is a Splendor armed with an afterburner gun, geo trap bombs, and wall pods. Shoes? Ultimate type, if allowed. The AI makes it as fun in single player mode as it is in multiplayer. I would pay fifty dollars for this game. Well, no I wouldn't. I already have a copy.
P.S.
You may be interested in this game because of the cool preview you saw in Gamestop or wherever. This preview can be watched at any time if you buy this game, because it's the intro!

Good old fashioned RPG fun -Mech Style!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: May 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is even better than I expected it to be. It was underrated by video game magazines, probably because it's kind of "old school". What I mean is that there are no voice actors, all the characters speak only in message boxes with pictures of their faces beside them showing various expressions; just like in Grandia. I think that's actually fun! Grandia (the first one) would have been better with no voice actors because the voices were bad!

In this game, you can customize your fighter from the body armor type to the sorts of weapons and legs, each giving you different abilities based on how you like to fight. I'll admit that I really got addicted to that sort of customization ever since Final Fantasy Tactics.

The story of this game impressed me too. All the characters are really fun, including the NPCs, and there's some great manga/anime style humor all throughout the game. The only thing that would have made the game better is if it were a little longer and the story were not as linear; but I could say the same thing about MOST RPGs!

I highly recommend Custom Robo!

Good but has some flaws

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: June 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Custom robo is a great game, and is well worth getting!
The graphics are good, and the idea is good but there are flaws.
Though there are 200+ parts and 3500+ combos of robots you have to go unlock the parts in the short and rather boring story mode. The story is simple, your a teen and you are going to become a custom robo commander in the will of your father. to advance you beat a bad guy, talk to the peoson who rewards you for beating the guy, get the part, and go to sleep, and wake up the next day to do the same thing over and over again. Once you do beat the story mode and get the parts, you get to the good part, the battles, use the bodies, guns, bombs, jetpack, leg boosters, to make a robot you like. Battle itself looks simple at first, but looks can be deceving. you must use the stadium offencively and defenceively, some weopans are stronger, others faster, knock enemie robots down, or evenfloat above them and strike when the enemie is still. The stadiums are good and move around at times, some of them go up and down, many have hazards, some even are as creative and a play room with a choo choo train.

OVERALL

-gameplay- story 5 rest 9.5
-graphics- 6-9 out of 10
-options- (15 things to do) 10
-sound- 8
-customization- i mean come on! 3500+ possible combos that like 20 out of 10! A kid can make a cute robot, an adult can make a hell fighter, be creative!
-fun- 10
-plot- 6-8 its good

DONT LISTEN TO THOSE (...) WHO SAY THIS GAME IS HORRIBLE! THEY PROBABLY DONT EVEN HAVE A GAMECUBE! This game is well worth playing, rent it, if you dont like it then dont get it...

A really fun game but could of been longer

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

This is a really good game to get. The story line is boring at the begining but once you first hear about Rahu it gets much more interesting. There are two chapters in the story mode, the first one is a traditional story and the second one is a bunch of tourments to get the rest of the parts in the game. I wished the story was longer and it only took me 1 week to unlock all the parts and modes in the game. It also has a great multiplayer mode. It is a must own if you like to customize everything and like robots.

the best robo game i have played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: April 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

everyone likes robots right? Whether its an oversized son of a tank and a weapons factory or a tiny hamaniod with all the offensive capbilities of cliff richard. my point is if like the frist one then this is the game for you. your love puting togeather your own tin man and and letting it loose on other bots. the visals of the are crisp and clear. the audio (sound tracks) are decent but could be better. the gameplay is really pick up and play arcade action with a well-paced narrative.

The game is fun...but the story mode is lacking at points

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: May 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Fisrt off let me say that this game is a lot of fun for a group of buddies to blast the heck out of each other. The controls and camera could certainly be better, but it's good mindless "shoot em up" fun. The single player story mode falls a bit short in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, the actual story is good, but I prefer more actual choices. Any deviation from where the story wants you to go (like wandering around rather than going straight home) ends up being just a waste of time. There are also very frustrating situations where you are REQUIRED to talk to each and every person in the area before the story will advance (Including 2 characters who's entire words of wisdom are that they aren't important enough to even have names.) I prefer more choice in my adventure games, even if I am still having fun. This is more of an RPG on rails and it falls short of being a truly awesome game. Hopefully we'll get a sequal that lives up to its potential because the game really is a lot of fun otherwise.

Custom Robo rules

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Loved this game so much it has great graphics and is very addicting to play! the sound effect were awesome i liked that you could choose from so many parts so u could make your own robo the storyline is a little hard to follow but trust me onece u get tis game u will be hooked!i'm looking forward to a sequel

looks good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: March 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This looks like a pretty nice game.You customize your robot from like 500 different pieces and weapons.Than I think you can add like different designs too it to theres a one player mode and a 2 player mode.When this comes out im gonna get it. P.S the explosions look really cool

FUN!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is really fun, if you think that the people fight in a robo, you're wrong! The robos fight in a data field called a holosseum. The game has over 200 guns and parts to build the ultimate fighting machine. They really should make an Anime seiries of Custom Robo.

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