Robots (Nintendo DS) Preview

Robots follows the bizarrely named Rodney Copperbottom (Voiced by Ewen McGregor) as he leaves his safe and happy robot home to live in the big, bad robot city, so he can sell his inventions to save the world and some sort, however bad things start to happen, and Sierra made a game out of it. Enough said really

Small racing sections have also been chopped into the fray, that mimic the huge and very unorthodox transportation system the robot city uses (Huge hammers, catapults, orb like things from Gladiators) and it is Rodney's mission to beat the clock to the checkered flag as he advances along half pipes and avoids oncoming traffic. Power ups and boosts are all present to aid these missions but the racing sections unfortunately seem as if they were just thrown in for the sake of it.

If you actually compare the DS version to the GBA version the DS slightly wins over using 3D locations, and 3D effects in the menus, as well as using the touch screen to look at maps and items, yet both look and control in relatively the same way. One nice, if a little pointless addition, is the ability to use a doodle function on the map to note down anything important, like character locations, however these do not save to the cart so do not expect that strange looking phallic thing you drew to stick around.