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RoboBlitz Reviews (XBLA)

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Item reviewed: RoboBlitz on x360

At the time it was released, RoboBlitz was a very ambitious third-person platforming game. It had very detailed physics and pretty good graphics, all crammed into a fifty meg download. Set in a futuristic space station, you play the titular robot named Blitz as he’s tasked with fighting off pirates while solving various physics-based puzzles to get the station’s functions back online. And while it is one of the older games in the XBLA catalog, it remains a very solid one.

Blitz isn’t much of a fighter at first, only able to stun enemies at range and destroy them with repeated blows up close. But that’s fine, because the game doles out better weapons as you get further in and you can also use its in-depth physics to deal with certain foes; stunning an enemy robot so they fall onto a conveyor belt and are carried into a metal grinder is just as good as melting them with plasma bolts, it turns out. Platforming action is joined by various puzzles, with most of them ranging from blatantly obvious (“Go here, throw the switch, and move on”) to reasonably engaging (engineering a spike-trap to take out a boss, for example). While most stages are pretty intuitive and fun, they’re also short; most will last only five or ten minutes, so you’ll blast through most of RoboBlitz’s content quickly.

 Our Rating for RoboBlitz Reviews (XBLA)
6.5
Replay
A fairly linear game, but playing around with the physics can be fun.
8.5
Graphics
While no longer as cutting edge as they were at launch, the sci-fi world of RoboBlitz still looks sharp.
7.5
Sound
Decent music sets the tone for each stage, and the sound effects are pretty convincing with lots of metallic bangs and explosions.
8.0
Gameplay
Decent platforming action mixed with fairly good puzzles and a very flexible physics engine add up to a fun time, with only some clumsy controls and short length holding it back from perfection.
0.1
Multiplayer/Online Content
None available, seems to be single-player only despite remarks on the game’s website that a multiplayer expansion was being developed. That was about two years ago, so I have to assume the multiplayer is vaporware.
7.5
Overall
RoboBlitz has aged fairly well, and is still worth playing in 2009.

Rating: 5.0, votes: 1



 
 

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