Custom Robo

by Nintendo

Product Features

• Jump into mechanized melee in the single-player role-playing game, as you create Custom Robos to lead into battle
• Choose from over 200 different parts and test your customized robot in 30 different combat arenas
• Battle it out in multiplayer mode -- four people on one screen, testing their robot-building skills in frenetic combat

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001JXAC0
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 15, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,579 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Custom Robo, the wildly popular action game of mechanized melee from Japan, hits the U.S. in May 2004. Get ready to enter a world of hyper-tech weapons, holosseums, and heavy-barrel battles. Custom Robo puts you in the pilot's seat of a state-of-the-art war machine in the not-too-distant future where crime and justice duke it out in virtual battlegrounds.

With the game's powerful, innovative customization, you can construct your robot from the ground up using an enormous arsenal of over 200 parts and weapons, from guns to bombs, robo models and homing pods. Many weapons are freely available on the market, but some--deadly and highly illegal--can only be acquired in secret robo gambling rooms and from the hands of crime syndicates.

Features:

• Role-playing Tutorial: Join the Steel Hearts bounty hunter squad, fight criminals, unlock powerful new parts and learn all the tips and tricks to becoming the Robo Commander to beat
• Near-limitless Customization: With over 50 guns, 30 bombs, 30 homing pods, and 30 robo models, you can build a robo that fits your style and strategy
• Holosseums: These digital domains are home to more than pretty scenery. Watch out for lava pits, conveyor belts, and ice
• Real-time Combat: No turn-based action here. Robo battles are not for the faint of heart.

Product Description

Custom Robo takes place in the future, where masters of robotic weapons called Custom Robos exist. Through special training, the Commanders of the Custom Robos can manipulate them through mental powers. But one Custom Robo has become intelligent & is now commanding other Robos -- you've been sent to stop it & figure out why!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Robots fight each other. (Almost like in the intro!), June 24, 2004

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"samtheman_17" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Custom Robo (Video Game)

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!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A really fun game but could of been longer, June 2, 2004

By 

Kopaka Nuva "Wing Zero" (Gastonia, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Custom Robo (Video Game)

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.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good old fashioned RPG fun -Mech Style!, May 19, 2004

By 

Andrew "Androcles" (Kenosha, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Custom Robo (Video Game)

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!