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• Steambot Chronicles Battle Tournament

If you have any questions related to the pricing and/or discount offered in a particular listing, please contact the seller for that listing. Product Information. Mech-on-mech arena combat comes to PSP with Steambot Chronicles Battle Tournament. Your ultimate goal is to win Orion City's Trotmobile tournament, but first you'll need to earn some cash and fame by completing various quests on behalf of the local populace. Whether it's making a delivery run across town or working in a mine, finishing each job will allow you the funds to customize your bipedal Trotmobile in the areas of arms, legs, windshields, grilles, bodies, and more. Then you'll be ready to take on some heated competition inside a coliseum.

Steambot Chronicles Battle Tournament

Up to four can participate in Ad-hoc multiplayer battles with either their custom-built Trotmobiles or with a standard mech. The latter option supports game sharing with only one UMD.

This Trotmobile needs a serious tune-upHIGH Customizing combat robots is always a good time.LOW How often the player has to sit through clunky, unnecessary bother.WTF How did the Crayola-level character art make it into the final product?Reviewing a game like Steambot Chronicles Battle Tournament is tough. It's not difficult in the sense that it taxes my skills as a critic or that it's a complex project requiring research or meditation on what the developers intended. No, it's difficult because I really wanted to like it, but there's so much wrong here it's as though the game is actively trying to push me away.Vaguely similar to the larger-in-scale PlayStation 2 RPG that inspired it, Steambot Chronicles Battle Tournament can be boiled down to: Main character pilots robot. Main character earns money via insipid tasks to upgrade robot.

Main character uses robot to occasionally fight in arena.Taking a global view, the game as a whole suffers from being incredibly clunky, slow, and completely failing to provide the player with a smooth and intelligent experience. Tedious in every aspect, I found it trying my patience thanks to the amount of time wasted on things that shouldn't even be an issue—things like the robot's sluggish walking speed, an overlong cut-scene before a boss that can't be skipped, and a dozen other irksome things in need of polish. Minor irritants aside, how the player uses the robot (called a Trotmobile) to navigate the city is the most endlessly annoying way Steambot Chronicles Battle Tournament stumbles over itself.In order to make any progress, players must earn money and 'fame'—two commodities granted by completing jobs offered at a local employment agency. It sounds simple enough, and it should be.

However, this core aspect of the Steambot Chronicles experience is totally botched by making the player put up with a horrifically cumbersome system of mobility. Bear with me hereIn order to get a job at the local agency, the player must leave their Trotmobile and actually enter the building. However, instead of letting players get on and off of the Trotmobile at will, they must first find a 'parking cone' and exit.

At that point, they must walk to the agency, enter, select a job, exit, re-enter the Trot, and then walk to the person who's actually 'offering' the job elsewhere in the city.About half of these job-giving people can be spoken to from the Trot, but for the other half it's required to again find a parking cone, exit the robot, and then walk inside a building to confirm the job. Brad Gallaway has been playing games since arcades were a thing and Atari was the new hotness. He's been at GameCritics since 2000. Currently, he's juggling editing duties, being a homeschooling dad, a devoted husband, and he does try to play a game once in a while.Brad still loves Transformers, he's on Marvel Puzzle Quest when nobody's looking, and his favorite game of all time is a toss-up between the first Mass Effect and The Witcher 3. You can catch his written work here at GameCritics and you can hear him weekly on the @SoVideogames Podcast. Follow Brad on Twitter and Instagram at @BradGallaway, or contact him via email:bradgallaway a t gmail dot com.