Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction (PC CD)

I am excited about the upcoming Robot Wars series and I wanted to play this game again after about 10 years.The game is pretty much everything I remember; the Robots take damage way too easily, there's no way of knowing how damaged your Robot is other than armour in the arenas, and J.Pearce's commentary is super irrelevant 80% of the time. Having said all these harsh things however, the game is as close as you're going to get to the classic Robot Wars experience and I would recommend it more than Extreme Destruction as the A.I in this game is smarter (that's not saying much).One thing I would say is it might be worthwhile getting a console version of this game as I've had a plethera of issues getting this to run on a modern PC system. I'll explain below:Word for those running Windows 8.1 and newer, this game might not work out of the box, in fact my laptop (Windows 10) just didn't want to read the disk. I had to go into the disk files to run the install application manually. Once installed it wouldn't launch. This game will work on Windows 7 and below however, but for 8.1 and 10, you need to acquire a certain executable and replace it with the one installed to allow it to work.Once the game does work, the sound slowly dies. What I mean is the music will cut out, the commentary will cut out and the sound effects will cut out the more you play it in one sitting. It's a bizarre problem that I haven't found a solution to. The game also occasionally crashes.Other than that the game is nostalgic as well as simulataneously terrible and awesome.

What can i say, some people have slated this game for poor graphics, poor commentary and loads of bugs.The graphics aren't brilliant but they are fairly good, the comentary does get rather boring and isn't very imaginative or acurate. Oh and as for the bugs they were really beinging to get me down.... that is untill I found a patch that fixed them (yes it did take some serious tracking down *ARGH* but its worth finding).But just a second this game is imense amounts of fun, once its working properly I found that i could quite happily play it for 6 or 7 hours at a time... Yeah it could do with more levels, yes multiplayer over the web would be amazing.Basicaly this is a good game, but it could have been a brilliant game with just a little more work... what a shame.

My little boy was nt around when the series was on telly, but he loves everything Robots Wars and we constantly have to put up with facts and figures of every Robot.Also speedy delivery to the thrill of my little boy!

Seems all good thanks.

Robot Wars Arenas of Destruction is fairly good on an AMD Athlon 1900+ 64mbGeForce3Ti and 512mb memory.Bad Points:1.The houserobots move about five times as fast. i.e. Killalot zooms around the arena.2.Weapons fly off your and other robots. i.e. Hypnodisc's flywheel flew away!3.Damage is unrealistic. i.e. great holes in your titanium armour.4.The options break the game unless you have the patch which fixes it.5.Commentary doesn't resemble the battle.6.Secret components don't exist7.Needs high computer specs.8.No Pinball, Gauntlet, SumoGood Points1.Building a robot is great!2.Being flipped on the flipper is good3.Many different arenas.4.Cheats5.Well modeled robots6.Different challengesOtherRobot Wars Arenas of Destruction is based on: Series 3 because of no Refbot who came in Series 4.A sequel to it Robot Wars Extreme Destruction will be out in November.With Refbot and Matilda's flywheel and new arenasOverall8/10

I've seen much better engineered games than this, but the formula is surprisingly addictive, so much so that both my kids burst into tears when Sgt Bash attacked OUR robot and not the opponent we had just pushed into the CPZ - outrageous!There are some irritations- commentary that doesn't follow the action well enough, some confusing rules about what you can/can't include when building your robot, and it's all a bit sluggish between scenes - but all this is compensated for by the fun of battling it out on the arena floor.