We don't expect movie licensed games to achieve greatness, but we do expect them to at least offer some enjoyment to people who enjoyed the movie. With the memory of the previous twenty minutes' play burned into your retinas, it takes a dedicated gamer to go back and search for that missing piece. On countless occasions you'll have spent twenty minutes, or thereabouts, battling against an awkward camera and lose controls, finally reaching an end of a section, only to realize that there is one item that you missed. The developers seem to have borrowed from recent action platformers, but have failed to take anything good from them. There are some slight variations along the way, but with every leap Rodney attempts being a hassle, it is hard to imagine anyone wanting to experience the whole game. Obviously not wanting to stray too far from convention, Robots combines mediocre platforming with tedious and repetitive 'collect a series of objects' missions. The game's main problem is its lack of originality. Combat, using projectile and melee weapons, feels clumsy, and anyone accustomed to the Ratchet & Clank or Jak series' will almost immediately be put-off. In an ideal world this could have saved the game, with ropey platform elements being countered by some fun blasting action, but, unfortunately, we don't live in an ideal world. Once you grow up (which takes all of ten minutes) you'll be able to use projectile weapons.

Adults looking in on their children's playtime will probably sneer at the game's rather rough look (especially on the PlayStation 2 version) which detracts somewhat from the overall visual package. Kids playing the game will be pleased with the faithfully recreated characters and environments.

At least the game looks the part, on the whole, if you're a kid. If you haven't seen the film you'll probably struggle to follow the story as the game feels pretty disjointed. Youngsters expecting a lot of footage from the movie will also be disappointed, with clips not appearing as often as they might like and when they do appear they are rather dull. Robots, being a movie licensed game it includes all the voice talent from the movie, right? Wrong. The adventure includes open environments for players to explore, puzzles for them to solve, and challenging robot opponents who must be defeated through combat. Robots features a number of important characters from the movie, as well as more than 40 original characters created specifically for the game. Rodney's mechanical world is in danger of being taken over forever by an evil tyrant robot, so he must travel to the city, and somehow stop the villain, before it is too late. Players take the role of reluctant robot hero Rodney Copperbottom, in this platform adventure based on the computer-animated Twentieth Century Fox feature film.

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