Let’s face it; who doesn’t want to be a giant robot killing machine? Origin8 is giving you the chance to do just that with their latest title, Robot Rampage. The game is fully OpenFeint enabled, with achievements and leader boards populated with the total number of blocks you managed to obliterate before you got obliterated.

The game comes with a rather intuitive control scheme that is entirely gesture based. You swiftly tap the screen either to the left or the right of the robot to move, and hold your finger on the screen to fire your laser cannon. Tapping near the upper left or right side of the robot makes it swing its fists, and tapping near its feet makes it stomp the ground angrily. Plus, when the top right meter is charged, you can tap the robot itself, hold and then release for a powerful nuclear blast that wipes everything from the screen; as demonstrated by the developer’s video of the game.

Your job is to leave the city in ruin, block by block. Each building that you tear down is bound to annoy the residents and obviously, the army has to do everything it can to take you out. Soldiers don’t prove much of a problem, nor do tanks—it is the helicopters, missile launches and jet aircraft that can prove the most troublesome. You have to react fast as the robot is slow and ungainly; changes in direction are a particular sore spot. However once you get the hang of using your fists to deal damage to the buildings whilst using the laser on everything else it is great fun.

Conceptually it is absolutely right on the money

So fun in fact, it’s extremely hard to come up with any criticism of the game. The only shortcoming that we can find is that the graphics don’t change and that the environment doesn’t change; each time you play you will be seeing the same buildings over and over. That’s not a terribly bad thing as you flatten buildings in a matter of seconds, though. Robot Rampage also boasts a terrific catalog of sound effects, far superior to many of the games that we’ve played on the platform to date.

Robot Rampage is inspiring, destructive and addictive. Conceptually it is absolutely right on the money, and despite there being little variation in content, you’ll be more than contented annihilating what you get here.

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