RoBros

It's an ok small game. Has 3 levels and 2 mode types kinda. Tutorial was broken for me so that was useful. You plan your route to the objective which acts like a puzzle of sorts, then you play it out in First Person as you follow the little robot through the area. You have to stay really close to it otherwise it stops and loses power. This was pretty annoying. The radius should have been bigger. Shooting is fine but can be glitchy. 2 weapons include pistol and shotgun. 2 enemy types which are ok, but sometimes buggy. In all, it's a little free to play game that a small team has worked on as if it was a student/beginner project so I respect them for that.

Robros has a great idea, escorting a robot through a path you choose, but the rest of the game leaves much to be desired. The game menu can be confusing as you use forward arrows to move back in menus. There are no bullet animations, so there are limited signs of the fact you are shooting a gun, or what you hit. There are bullet marks that are left for a couple of seconds and a flash at the end of the barrel, but those are easy to overlook. While the pistol and shotgun appear and shot differently in-game, the pistol is larger than the shotgun and both guns don’t appear as the gun type they represent. The bullet time feature is a great way for the player to feel powerful as they score several headshots on robots in slow motion. The time the player can use this feature is quite high, allowing the player to clear rooms or levels with total ease. The robots will only attack the player if the player is very close to them or if shot at, but they won’t attack if they are about 30 feet away or more. The game starts very easy and slowly ramps in difficulty, but the game only has four total levels, including the tutorial. The game can be completed in fifteen minutes. The controls to the game are listed for the player at the start of every level and are shown when the player plans out a level. While most controls make sense, such as movement and firing the gun, the q button is used to finalize the plan and move through controls menus, which seems out of place when a different button could be used, like the enter key. The music in the game is very simple, but helps convey the idea of a futuristic setting. The music doesn’t help tell any story or create an emotional experience for the player. While the game has several graphics settings, there are only small, negligible differences between the lowest and highest settings. The game runs slowly on the highest resolution with the lowest graphics selection. The tutorial does not scale with the resolution, so players can’t even start it on a low resolution without exiting the game and selecting a bigger resolution. The planning phase on each level scales better, but, on some levels, it will still leave the end goal outside of the window, forcing the player to restart the game again. The player cannot edit their plan after they have created their plan. Attempting to change the plan results in the player creating a new plan from scratch. Robros has a great idea, which allows the player to have some fun at the beginning, but it quickly becomes frustrating for the player because of all the reasons stated above. Robros could be a good game, but it would require big changes to be the kind of game it could be.