Great video man! I completely agree with all of your points, the Extreme Destruction GBA game was one of my all time favourites, shame about the graphics though. It would be awesome to get a new Robot Wars game on today's consoles, imagine the interactivity and detail!
Thanks! And yeah, definitely - with the show now rebooted there's no better time for another crack at making a game for it. Fingers crossed. :) Thanks for watching by the way!
Retro Revisited No worries, it was a very enjoyable video! I think at best we would get a mobile game though. I reviewed the Xbox Extreme Destruction a few years back during my younger, fatter and hairier days if you want to check it out?
that and a little Gmod group which has been doing Robot Wars/Battlebots for a couple of years now, revising building rules for soem realism (currently the brainy coder people are working on giving flippers limited shots), It's never going to be perfect due to the janky physics of Gmod, but it's a hell of a lot of fun, and they have replicas of quite a lot of the famous bots.
yup i had and still have a ps2 copy of arenas of destruction, i dont want to think about the number of weeks i must have spent sat in front of the screen waiting for he endless voiceovers to end so i could get to terrorhurtz. wierdly nostalgic in a way.
I didn't even know a new show is on the way! Finally!!!!I remember that there were an online browser game of robot wars back in the day. It was in full 3D and didn't look to bad, the only bad thing about it was the framer ate. It ran in 10-15 fps or something like that.Anyone else remember it?
I thought it was pretty good. When it was first announced I started yelling with excitement and when I got tickets to see it in Glasgow the same thing happened again. I think my flatmates were rather perturbed. Although Craig Charles wasn't there, the presence of Jonathan Pearce and a lot of veterans of the old show made it nostalgic enough while still bringing it suitably into a new era. Dara definitely knows what he's talking about- there were no stupid questions like "What's the point of a failsafe?" (Which Phillipa Forrester genuinely once asked a team.). I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the series, and the ongoing reaction to it- whether its ratings consistently beat the last Top Gear ep, or if that was just a one-off achievement. Either way, I'm overjoyed it's back, but personally I would HATE to see another spin-off game...partly because I know it'll be crap, and partly because I'd get several comments bon my videos hounding me into suffering through it.
Ha, yes - we do not need another Robot Wars videogame, that's for sure. Especially with titles like Robot Arena out there. I also thought the show was pretty good, Dara was much better than expected.
BTW, I have linked to this video in my latest upload. I think a lot of fans are blinded by love for the show and think "It's ok, at least there IS a game"...there doesn't need to be a game for every TV show, and I think your vid demonstrates exactly why they shouldn't exist, lol. I just hope other people realise this before Mentorn (or whoever's in charge) bend under pressure and release another one.
+EscapeRouteBritish Yeah, I ended up playing Destroy All Monsters for much longer than I wanted just so I didn't have to go back to a RW title in fact...
Great video. I kind of dig that GBA 3d engine, but I'm a big Super FX fan. I recently picked up Doom for the GBA just because I love "3D" engines on older hardware.
In hindsight these games are pretty rubbish, but for me they have the same nostalgic appeal AVGN has for games like Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest and Top Gun. I can still go back and have some un-ironic fun with the games even though I see their glaring flaws. Though nowadays I'm mostly playing Robot Arena 2. That's the one the gets it right.
I have Arena's of Destruction and have a lot of fun with it. I want to get Extreme Destruction, because it looks like it's actually possible to flip opponents over in that game.
Retro Revisited I just want to lift Robots, it got a bit annoying in AoD when I would raise the lifter and the enemies armour would shatter into a thousand crystaline shards before vanishing into the air.
I remember having all of these titles as a kid, and playing them solely on the basis that they were Robot Wars games, but looking back, they are pretty awful, I think Arenas was better than Extreme, though, because at least Arenas had something resembling physics. =/ (And on PC, it had way more graphics options.) Have you heard about the Robot Arena games? The first one was garbage, but the second one is quite amazing, and shows how to make a good (albeit not perfect) Robot Combat game!
Yeh but these games are decades old. gaming has moved on. Even though there is no TV show now if they brought out re-mastered, re-made or new Robot Wars games I would buy them.
I don't need to watch this video to know that the game on the GBA was hot garbage. That game is up there with the worst games on any handheld. It is up there with various game.com titles in terms of poor quality.
