Robocraft
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Sep 8, 2017 |
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Freejam Games Enter your own personal garage and use the building blocks provided to literally build a "war machine" that can utterly decimate your next online opponent. With so many tools to build your robot with and tons of game modes to enjoy, Robocraft is an exciting and competitive, arena-based robot-fighting game to play! Play Now Similar Games Played
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Summary
Available on the PC as a F2P title for any age, Robocraft is effectively the building elements of Minecraft, except instead of building houses you’re tasked with building a death-robot. To make things interesting, there are a lot of different parts to apply to any creation, so that anything that comes to mind is a viable idea. Once you’re happy with the design of the robot, you can easily hop online for a variety of game modes and has the player go against real-time opponents and their weird and wonderful creations – of which you can also name as you please.
Gameplay
With Robocraft, it likes to throw the player straight into the nitty-gritty of it all. The player is quickly escorted to their garage, the area of the game that is used to create all the fascinating and crazy robots that come to fruition. From there, you can attach an assortment of blocks, wheels, weapons, and other parts that have been implemented into the game through the use of the first person editor. This editor has you in a first person perspective, all so you can apply the blocks to your robot as precisely as you can manage and while at first it might take a little bit of getting used to, it is actually really quite useful once you get to grips with using it properly.
Quite clearly the second most important part of the game is getting to play around with your robot and seeing just how well it can do online against your opponents. When it comes to this side of gameplay, it plays similarly to a 3rd-person shooter, except it feels more like you’re control a vehicle/robot than you are a person, which is the type of feeling you’d expect from this game.
To keep things from getting stale too quickly, there are a number of different game modes to try out, such as the well-known team deathmatch, king of the hill, that sort of thing, and even a game mode where you take a team of 6 other robots against a much higher level robot that’s controlled by a player that’s put some considerable time into designing their robot. Thanks to the variety in game modes, it makes sticking around in this game real easy and that’s not counting the already fantastic part about building and perfecting your robot.
As you continue to upgrade and improve your robot as you see fit, you’re eventually going to run out of parts to add to it and that’s where you’re going to have to buy new ones through the in-game shop. More or less everything in this game can be bought with in-game cash that can be acquired through playing matches or “recycling” old parts for a spare bit of cash. At first, you won’t be able to purchase an incredible assortment of parts, but after some time you’ll be able to buy the parts necessary to upgrade the robot to another level, which would make it seem rather unfair and overpowered for players who couldn’t afford to upgrade their robot just yet.
Well, to avoid the dreaded thought of having veteran bot-makers go against completely new players, each robot has a certain level of CPU when it is complete. Depending on how high that CPU is, they won’t be allowed in certain tiers of the game. So, if you’ve designed a giant-spider tank that can hardly be damaged by basic weapons, it’s not going to be allowed on the battlefield against a handful of new players who are just learning how to put blocks together, which does help the pay-to-win nature of the game a fair amount, but not quite enough.
Easily one of the biggest problems with the game is how much they try and force the player to spend money on their robots. For instance, at any point you don’t have premium access – which is a monthly subscription – you won’t earn as much in-game currency as possible and will be forced to improve your robot considerably slower. By pumping money into the game, you can buy parts for your robot incredibly quickly and even though there are certain skill tiers; in the later tiers it can be quite clear that another player has spent a considerable amount on this game and does make it feel pay-to-win at times.
For those players out there who may feel at a disadvantage for a lack of creativity, there is an option to buy designs on an in-game marketplace that can only be bought with the in-game currency. On top of this, however, if you feel like you’ve got a design that you’re quite proud of and wish to offer to other players, you can upload that design to the player marketplace for them to purchase and use as they see fit and you receive a nice portion of the proceeds because of this. This alone is simply another reason to put that little bit of time and effort into your robot when you’re up for it!
Community
On offer for the community is your typical in-game friends list, of which is used to talk to anyone you wish to add onto it, but what’s a little more exciting is the constant events that come cropping up every now and again for players to try out for themselves, with varying rules on each and every new one the developers released for the player base. Oh, and with a game such as this, it’s almost no surprise that its online forum is constantly being used by players around the world and it just goes to show how dedicated the community is to this title.
Graphics/ Sound
Robocraft has quite honestly taken the same sort of route that Minecraft went with, where instead of trying to be the best looking game out at the time, it instead went for its own unique style, which isn’t quite as unique as the block-building goliath, but manages to do its job really well all the same. The maps and environments you get to play on aren’t anything particularly special, but with the assortment of pieces you have on offer to you as a player you can quite literally make anything you desire with them and it would turn out like you would expect, and that’s all down to the visual style the game totes as a result.
While the game has a cool and interesting graphical stance, its audible one definitely isn’t as nearly as intriguing. The majority of the time in-game you’re stuck listening to a robotic lady counting down or making comments on the match. Either that or you’re stuck listening to your robot firing its lasers over and over again and after some time, that laser sound effect will definitely get the better of you.
Conclusion
Overall, Robocraft does have its flaws, with the main one being just how much it tries to push the premium side of things onto its players, but the game as a whole is a great F2P robot building/destroying escapade. Being able to design quite literally any robot that you can think of makes for endless gameplay and considering just how regularly this game gets updated with new parts and content, there’s seriously a lot to love with this one game and it’s the type of game that can be picked up by just about anybody.
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