Custom Robo Arena
by Nintendo
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Product Summary
Brand: NintendoRelease Date: 2007-03-19
Platform: Nintendo DS
Model: NTRPACLE
Publisher: Nintendo
Product features:
- Explore a sci-fi landscape as they fight toward the Custom Robo championship, powering up their Robos as they go
- Get complete control over how Robos fight their battles -- literally millions of possible Custom Robo combinations
- Challenge friends to one-on-one Robo battles using either Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, Multi-Card Play or DS Download Play
- Touch screen to customize every aspect of their Robo -- give it new weapons, polish it up after every battle to bring it back to top fighting form
Video Game Reviews of Custom Robo Arena
Customer Review: Fun, but Shallow
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Description of Custom Robo Arena
Custom Robo Arena takes place in the not-too-distant future, mankind relies on tiny, telepathically controlled robots to perform dangerous tasks. Deep-sea research, disaster relief and interplanetary exploration are all done by Robos -- popular and easily customized machines. Robos also form the favorite sport of tomorrow: battling in the holographic arenas called "holosseums." Now that criminals have taken to using these mighty miniature machines as weapons, the Custom Robo phenomenon has grown into a problem for the whole of society. Competitors battle customized robot warriors in holographic battle arenas. Victory is determined not only by fighting skill but also by how well Robo Commanders design their robot gladiators, so players need both brawn and brains to survive.Kids & Family Games
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