Shoot Many Robots - PS3 Review

Released by Ubisoft
Platform: PlayStation Network for PS3

Sometimes, it's a case of doing exactly what it says on the tin.

Such is the case of Shoot Many Robots - which is exactly what the game is all about.

In this left to right scrolling game, you play P Walter Tugnut, a hillbilly who finds his world over-run by robots and with no other option but to shoot his way out of the oncoming onslaught. So, with the mobile home about to be overrun and the surrounding hicksville under threat, there's nothing else to do but grab your guns, your best hillbilly moonshine and shoot them critters back into tarnation.

And that's essentially all there really is to do in Shoot Many Robots - aside from customising your character and arsenal - by continually plugging lead into the robots, you get to collect bolts which get traded for weapons or clothes. Sometimes, you can't progress until they've all been wiped out which makes it tough when there's low ammo and no more beer left to swill. Still, on those occasions, there's your fists. Yep, that's right - you can smack a robot down with a well placed slug to it.

In its offline mode, Shoot Many Robots gets fairly boring quite quickly - that's not to say anything about the play or against the cartoony simplified graphics. It's merely more than when it's a co-operative, there's a bit more fun and rivalry in blasting everything into oblivion. It's here the game gains a bit more fun and gives you a bit of a chance to relieve the monotony of just shooting and moving on.

Shoot Many Robots is a fairly slight, disposable bit of fun - its shelf life is probably shorter than normal in its solo form but if you get a few mates round, slug a few beers and fire up this shooter (or do all that solo and head online), it's there that you get a bit more enjoyment out of this robotic romp.

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