Customer Reviews

Robots

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Robots was a popular animated kid's movie, and Robots GBA lets you play in that same world on your GameBoy Advance. It's a good game for casual gamers.

This is a traditional side-scrolling platformer game, but in this case you're a robot moving through an industrialized world. You also have a little flying helicopter sidekick. So much in the tradition of several other buddy-games, you do your primary work with the main character, while solving certain puzzles by sending in the flying friend.

Along the way you find pieces and parts. Some of these get returned to people as quest items, in exchange for parts you need or simple thanks. Other items you get are useful in your inventions. You get a general "shape" indicator, and as you find parts, you try to figure out if they fit into that shape. Once you complete a given item, you can use it in your travels.

The game is designed to be easy to play and straightforward fun, and it certainly is that. You turn levers to get elevators to move. You fight your way through enemies, figuring out which weapon will take them down. You explore the corners of the cities, tracking down items that will come in useful.

There's no blood, no swearing, and no mature themes. It's all very straightforward and fun play.

Well recommended for platformer gamers, especially those who are younger or who are new to the genre.

I bought this game used at Gamestop but it sure looked like it was taking me to level 1 when I tried playing it (for weeks) and never could pass the first level. All I could do was just walk around this industrial world and try to figure out what in the world I was supposed to do. Many times I would literally not be able to jump up to where I thought the game should take me somewhere. It made no sense. I kept trying it and trying. The graphics were great, but I thought it was a very dumb game if it didn't tell me at all how in the world you were supposed to play it. Now I know why the former owner traded it in! I traded it in for a better game after being dissappointed with no improvement. And I'm 27 and have played all my life, so I'm not a newbie at the gaming world. Don't buy it. It's a dissappointment!

I do not understand the review that said this game was impossible. I have become very disgusted with so many video games in the past decade because they make them so hard that you cannot have job and still get anywhere in the game. In so many games nowadays you have to play 24/7 for 6 months, playing the same impossible levels over and over, just to pass it. Well this game, I am happy to say, is not like that. THIS GAME HAS A FUN FACTOR OF 12 OUT OF A 1-10 SCALE! Let me make make one thing crystal clear...THIS GAME IS NOT TOO HARD! This game really leads you in the right direction when you are lost. Many places have arrows pointing you where to go. You meet with many other robots who tell you that they need XYZ mechanical part and then you have to find it and bring it back to them. When you do, it unlocks more secrets and places you can go and you get new weapons and devices that you will need later in the game. The game has many unexpected and welcome surprises. In the beginning there are places you cannot get to because they are too high up, but later on after you defeat a few bosses you get a super-jumping ability and then it takes you to those unreachable places. There is also a part where you can slide on wire later in the game. I had this game years ago and passed it and gave it away. I missed it so I found it here for just a few bucks. It is family friendly, more so than the movie it is based on, and is really fun. THIS IS A GREAT GAME!

I was very pleased with the promptness that my order was filled and the condition it was in when it arrived!