RoboBlitz Reviews (XBLA)

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.