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Robot Wars: Arenas Of Destruction is a 2001 action game published by BBC Multimedia and released for the PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows, based on the BBC television series, Robot Wars. It was the first of the company's titles to be released under the "Gamezlab" core brand.
- Trailer
- Arenas
- Features
- Playable Robots
- Voice Artists
- Glitches
- Patch
- Demos
- Credits
- Cut Content
A trailer for Arenas of Destructionwas available as part of a demo disc included with an issue of the Official UK Playstation 2 Magazine, released in November 2001. The trailer showcases the TV Studio as well as each of the fictional arenas. Strangely, a fight takes place in the New York Steelworks arena between two identical Firestorm 2 robots. Th...
The game has eight arenas, each containing pits, CPZs, flame jets, and hazards unique to the arena's setting, e.g. unexploded mines in Siberian Military Base, a molten steel vat in New York Steelworks. The arenas are listed as follows:
Buying and Making a Robot
When you first start the game, you start with 2000 credits and a robot called My First Bot, which is a small wedge-shaped robot armed with a spring-loaded pickaxe and armoured in wood. You can sell this robot and get an extra 1350 credits to spend on a new one. There are various parts to use when making a robot. The chassis cost 100-500 credits, the locomotion costs 0-1700, the power costs 100-1500, the drive costs 40-3500, the weapons cost 150-9500, the armour costs 100-5000, and the extras...
Scrapyard
The Scrapyard is accessed in the robot creation/editing screen, the option straight under Shop. It is the only place to buy items at a reduced price, which makes Titanium affordable and makes a robot with said Titanium able to compete in the Sao Paulo Scrapyard competitions. It is the only way of getting Aluminium step-plate and Salvaged Steel. Items bought in the Scrapyard can be sold back at full, effectively providing a way to create infinite money.
Robot Battles
You must enter your robots in Championship mode in order to gain credits. In the later tournaments, you need to pay an entry fee in order to take part. There are three tournaments in each of the arenas, with different entry requirements for each event. These requirements usually involve entering a robot of a certain weight, fitted with a certain type of weapon, or within a certain cost. Besides Championship mode, there are numerous other options depending on what type of battle you want. Ther...
Competitor Robots
There are many playable robots that must be bought in order to use them. Robots are separated into weight categories which are, lightweight, middleweight, heavyweight and super heavyweight. Robots that participated in reality are very expensive and are classed as super heavyweights. The only exception to this is Chaos 2 which is classed as a heavyweight. The following robots are the "real-life" competitor robots: In addition to these competitors, there is a robot called Thor, the winning entr...
House Robots
Although the setting for this game is around Series 4 of Robot Wars, Refbot does not appear, but Dead Metal, Shunt, Sir Killalot, Matilda and Sergeant Bashdo.
Scrapped
1. Bob 2. Pencil of Death 3. Roadblock 4. Robot Ali 5. Silver Bullet 6. TechnoMasher 7. Torcher Chamber 8. Trouble Shooter
There are two voices in this game, the commentator and the Robot Builder Advisor. Jonathan Pearce is the commentator in the UK version, Stefan Frank in the US version and Rob Kamphuesin the Dutch version. Interestingly, Frank's commentary is word-for-word exactly the same as Pearce's (except for the pronunciation of the letter "Z") and Kamphues' co...
Occasionally in some arenas, a House Robot will start a battle hovering above their CPZ, and drop down to the ground either during Jonathan Pearce's opening speech in the first round, or after "3,...One patch (1.2) was releasedon 14 December 2001 for the PC version of the game that addressed several issues that were in the initial release: 1. The game not restarting after the screen resolution has been changed from the default 640x480 display. 2. Unexpected characters appearing in text boxes when the shift, alt and ctrl keys are pressed. 3. No...
Both the PC and PS2 versions of Arenas of Destruction received a demo release. The PC demo was released first in January 2002 on CD Disc 2 included with Issue 105 of the UK PC Gamer Magazine among other PC game demos, while the PS2 demo was released a month later in February 2002 on a demo disc sold with Issue 17 of the Official UK PlayStation 2 Ma...
Vivendi Universal†
1. Lori Inman, Jill Le Grand, Patrick Sweeney, Brandon Valdez, Randy Linch
BBC
1. Producer: Colin Fuidge 2. Executive Producer: Dave Anderson 3. Rights and Acquisitions Executive: Tim Bolaji 4. Head of Rights and Acquisitions: Sian Teasdale 5. Technical Manager: Kish Hirani 6. Marketing Executive: Emma Such 7. Localisation Manager: Lena Strand 8. Product Development Director: Sarah Hennings 9. Director of Multimedia: Dave Lee
Voices
1. Game Commentary: Jonathan Pearce, Stefan Frank† 2. Robot Builder Advisor: Beatie Ednay 3. Music Robot Wars theme tune by Golden Break Music
Various robots, weapons, accessories and even game modes were scrapped between early prototypes of Robot Wars: Arenas of Destructionfor currently unknown reasons. 1. Bob, Pencil of Death, Roadblock (no relation to the Series 1 Champion of the same name), Robot Ali, Silver Bullet, TechnoMasher, Torcher Chamber and Trouble Shooterwere all fictional c...
Mechanically i preferred AoD, but all the things i cared about made ED the better game to load up if i only had one - the substantially better real life robot selection, and better arenas overall made it hard to topple.
In 2001, BBC Multimedia publishes Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction on Windows. This simulation game is now abandonware, you can get it here.
- Simulation
- United States
- Windows
- 2001
Mar 23, 2024 · Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction is the first official Robot Wars console video game based on the British robot combat game show of the same name. It adopts elements mostly from Series 4. LET THE WARS BEGIN!
Nov 23, 2001 · Robot Wars - Arenas of Destruction is unparalleled - the most realistic and engaging Robot warring title to date.
Jan 17, 2004 · Mad Bomber: One robot is equipped with a bomb; the robot must pass the bomb to another robot by ramming them before the bomb explodes. The last robot standing wins. Capture the Flag: The aim is...
