Battlebots®:
Beyond the Battlebox™
to be released this Fall
Battlebots
will be coming to come to
the video game screen near
you when Majesco releases
Battlebot®: Beyond the
Battlebox™ this October
for Game Boy Advance. "We
are very excited to be bringing
one of today's most popular
television properties to a
whole new audience."
said Ken Gold, Vice President
of Marketing. "By its
own design, BattleBots
is an ideal property for the
interactive arena."
A robotic clash of titans,
BattleBots features
16 robots featured on the
show and allows players to
create their own BattleBot
through more than 1000 possible
combinations of weapons, chassis
types and drive trains.
Having created the perfect
BattleBot, players must then
increase their skill in controlling
their BattleBot in the arena.
“We’ve done a lot
of tweaking on the AI to make
the game very fun and challenging,”
said Phil Michealson a Producer
at Majesco. “From a programming
stand point its a pretty complex
game because you have so many
variations of possible battle
bots.”
Upon winning a match, gamers
are awarded cash, allowing
them to upgrade their BattleBot
with a wide range of weapons
and special features, such
as Kill Saws and Hydraulic
Pulverizers. The video
game takes BattleBots
to a whole new level with
real-life engineering restrictions
lifted and battle arenas that
are even more deadly than
the real-life BattleBox.
In addition to the intense robotic
combat, BattleBots
offers the following key features:
- Head-to-Head
Combat - up to four
BattleBots can duke it out
simultaneously;
- The
BattleBox - the official
arena of BattleBot combat
rigged with all the Kill
Saws, Pulverizers, Ram Rods
and more from the show that
gamers can use to their
advantage;
- Beyond
the BattleBox - four
additional arenas for robotic
mayhem each with its own
unique hazards;
- Four-Player,
Free for All - up to
four players can link up
and battle it out in multi-player
matches;
- Training
and Practice Courses - provides
practice courses where players
learn to steer and control
Bots, hit stationary and
moving targets;
- Bonus
Features - players can
"unlock" special
features through winning
performances.
Will the
game be available for other
plateforms? Possibly. THQ has
the next generation rights for
Nintendo Game Cube and PlayStation,
but we haven’t heard from
them yet. Still, this sounds
like a game that any combat
robot fan wouldn’t want
to miss.
Published:
August 29, 2002
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