Kotaku
I ran into the Naked Sky Entertainment team on the expo floor at the Game Developers Conference last week. They seem to really enjoy what they do and what they do, at least right now, is work on a cool game for the Xbox 360 Live Arcade and computer.
The thing that makes Robo Blitz so cool, besides its fun sense of humor, is that it is powered by the Unreal Engine 3 Ageia PhysX and Allegorithmic ProFx.. in other words it live physics instead of canned animation to make things move about and interact with one another.
The game features 18 levels and, from what I saw of it, looks like it's going to be the next big Arcade title.
What I loved most about the game were the weapons, they rocked.
My favorite was Naked Sky Entertainment's take on the gravity gun, which lets you tag objects or robots with little nodes that than create little magnetic chains to each other. There's nothing like chaining together three or four explosive barrels to an enemy and then watching him run around into something blows up especially when a robust physics engine is involved.
Another weapon turned your victims into colorful fireworks, shooting them into the air with a whistle and then causing them to explode into a delightful array of colors. Fun stuff.
The game doesn't have multiplayer support, but it sounds like the team is already playing around with the idea of an expansion of sorts. Can't wait.
Comments
Wow. Anybody see any screenshots somewhere?
look up.
If you like physics, and stuff hitting... get "Robot Arena, Design and Destroy" It's probably like $1 now if you can find it. It ran on an older version of Havok and was a robot combat simulation (think battlebots). You got to design robots with motors and stuff... great fun with physics, and easily modable. Anyway... back on topic. What is the point of this roboblitz game? I've seen that lots of people love it... but I don't even know what the plot is.
hahaha i love it! i think the robot wo9uld look pretty junky if it werent for such high resolution. and adam, some of the best games out there have little to no point. What? you have a mission to kill some guy or solve a puzzle? as long as its fun, thats all that really matters.
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