Custom Robo

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Originally Posted by Damian79

Game Informer is not something you can take seriously. Go go hypergrind, BMX XXX, Blood Rayne and Smashing Drive all scored 7+. While Beach Spikers: 5, FF:CC : 7, Star Wars Bounty hunter: 5,

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The fact remains that at least from what I played in the demo, Custom Robo is bland and uninspiried. In a game where the whole point is to battle, having static, boring, really shitty levels kills the game completely.

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Originally Posted by Roufuss

The fact remains that at least from what I played in the demo, Custom Robo is bland and uninspiried. In a game where the whole point is to battle, having static, boring, really shitty levels kills the game completely.

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Fair enough. I was just saying GI is not a magazine that you take seriously.

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Originally Posted by Damian79

Fair enough. I was just saying GI is not a magazine that you take seriously.

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Just the fact that GI is the first mag I've gotten that has reviewed it, and they basacially took what I thought about the demo and said it expounded into the entire game.

I mean, the customization and the robots and weapons are fantastic, like Virtual On except more fun to me, imo. But those levels, ugh, it's like they just got lazy.

There's a second opinion review in GI which gives it a 7.75, as opposed to the main one, which gives it a 5.75.

Even so, with all the good word about the first game I was really hyped about this one. When GI is off, most of the time it's because they scored a game too high.

GMR's newest issue (which I just got in the mail) gives the game an 8/10.

The screens that have been posted seem...off...from my time w/the demo. The detail is (too?) fantastic but the camera is zoomed in a lot more than when I played it.

This was one of the major probs w/it IMO. Cool gadgets and whatnot but w/the camera pulled so far back you can't really tell what all you're shooting (but you CAN see what your enemy is doing and you can make out the lvl as a whole - unlike VOOT).

Customization looks promising, even more so than the original Armored Core. On a side note, the demo movie is very cool (check out those explosions).

I just toyed around with the demo myself and I had a good time with it.
I don't know if I want to spend forty bucks on buying Custom Robo when it comes out, but it definitally seems like a great party game if everyone playing has their own robot to do battle with (Kind of how Pokemon is great if you know other people that are playing it as well, but kind of stale and pointless if you're never going to link up).