RoBoRumble

RoBoRumble is a real-time 3D strategy game set on Mars in the distant future. Across two campaigns of 15 missions each, you build combat robots from components and battle for a major arms contract. The winning side earns the contract and the chance to defend Earth in a final battle against the Aliens. A multiplayer mode supports up to four players in direct competition.

Build your Robos

Each Robo combines a chassis with a weapon, and can optionally use a Booster. You assemble units from components rather than choosing from a fixed roster, allowing hundreds of combinations to suit different tactics. Each of the two sides has eight chassis and weapons to choose from: one favors firepower, while the other focuses on weapon design. Only a small pool of weapons is available at first; you can expand it by awarding development contracts between missions.

Chassis include two- and four-legged runners, jet-propelled craft, tracked and wheeled vehicles, and teleporters. Weapons range from lasers, heavy artillery and machine guns to the Oiler, which slows enemies by leaving slippery pools, and the Whirlwind, which picks them up and throws them against the nearest wall. Boosters can increase a Robo’s speed, firepower, firing range or intelligence, or make it invisible.

Manage your energy

Your army and the enemy’s are built from a dome-shaped, glowing Energy Pool that also serves as each side’s main base. The pool has a mission-specific capacity, which acts as your budget for building Robos. When a Robo is destroyed, the energy invested in it returns to the pool and can be used to build another unit.

The base has three energy levels. If one takes sustained fire and is destroyed, it explodes and destroys enemies nearby, giving the defending side time to regroup and counterattack.

Campaigns and battles

The two campaigns contain 15 missions each. Battles include freely adjustable camera perspectives, zoom and scrolling, colored light sources, terrain morphing, visual effects and 3D sound. Multiplayer supports up to four players competing directly over a LAN or the internet.