Robots ROM

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Robots is a platform video game released in 2005. The game was developed by Eurocom and published by Vivendi Universal Games to coincide with the film of the same name. The DS/GBA plot is basically the same, though the open ended nature of the world means there are a few more diversions. You begin in a Train Station having left Rivet City as Rodney Copperbottom, and after a brief jaunt through the city you approach Bigweld’s Factory, but are told they no longer seek inventors.

You sneak into the place and accidentally interrupt a meeting held by Phineas T. Ratchet, who immediately kicks you out. The GBA game functions as more of a Metroidvania-style game, where Rodney has to platform and fight enemies across a sizable world map, collecting upgrades by beating bosses and finding parts scattered across the city for different robots also scattered across the city.

The weapons you gain open new areas of the map. There are a handful of small minigames as well, from a game where you toss oil cans at customers to surviving a torrent of dominos. The fast travel system, taken from the film’s transit system, also has a small mini-game where you can collect extra ammunition for weapons.