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Custom Robo Arena | 
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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $34.99
Buy New: $10.80
You Save: $24.19 (69%)
New (43) Used (9) from $10.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 6225
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.7
MPN: NTRPACLE
Model: NTRPACLE
UPC: 045496737917
EAN: 0045496737917
ASIN: B000HE9LKE
Release Date: March 19, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| 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 |
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Product Description
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Fun, but Shallow March 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Solid 4/5 title worth trying March 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Just like the other reviewers, my son enjoyed this game a lot, but it doesn't have the long-term oomph of other top-rated titles. For the price, this is a good value and most kids will enjoy it, including the multiplay, but eventually grow tired of it and resell it for something else. My son (9) liked it quite a bit, so give it a try.
Customize like crazy. Repetitive yet addictive. February 11, 2008
This is not an RPG. Still, the effect of improving customization (better guns, better chassis, etc.) gives the same satisfaction as leveling up a role playing character. The variety of customization is excellent.
The battles are quick and addictive. Try to stop at just one... However the battlefields are too repetitive and many of the same style battles happen over and over and over.
This is realtime, not turn based. So there is a clenching tension about each battle that makes it exciting.
I have a new game I want to play. I've had it for two weeks now. But I can't stop playing this game... Maybe just one more battle.
 Great Game August 9, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
My son just loves it, he was so happy and he enjoys this game a lot!
 Just needs a little more... July 31, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really want to like this game more, but there just not enough to go on. The battles are fun--in fact, this is sort of what I wanted the MegaMan Battle Network GBA to be like, rather than turn-based clunkers--but they're incredibly repetitive and don't seem to get much more challenging over time. The RPG aspect of it is tedious, slow moving, lacking in rewards for time investment and doesn't add much to the game play at all.
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