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78/100
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81% positive53 reviews
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Windows
Price
US$9.99

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2006 · Naked Sky Entertainment · Action · Indie

RoboBlitz

Xbox console exclusive

RoboBlitz is a humorous, physics-based action game full of inventive gizmos, weapons, characters, and environments. Players take on the role of Blitz, a multi-talented robot who must activate an aging Space Cannon to save his world from a band of maladjusted space pirates.

Released
7 November 2006
Platforms
WindowsXbox 360
Genres
ActionIndiePuzzleScienceThird-person shooter
Developers
Naked Sky Entertainment
Publishers
Naked Sky Entertainment
Modes
Single-player
Themes
ActionScience fiction
Engine
Unreal Engine 3
Country
United States
Age ratings
ESRB E10+CERO A
Languages
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat
3.5hmain story4hcompletionist

About

RoboBlitz is an indie puzzle action video game for Microsoft Windows through Steam and the Xbox 360 through Xbox Live Arcade. The game was developed by Naked Sky Entertainment and released on November 6, 2006. It was the first Unreal Engine 3 game alongside Gears of War to be released.

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

The player controls a robot who must navigate through six three part sectors to power up an orbital space cannon. Each sector has a multitude of enemies and a singular physics based puzzle per stage, as well as 'upgradium' pickups that can be used to expand Blitz' utilities, movement, and weaponry. Blitz can jump and interact with machines and elevators. It is able to grab objects likes barrels, carry them and use them to crush enemies as well as use weapons to shoot various enemies. Players can choose a more difficult game mode which when completed, gives access to bonus content.

Story

Blitz is a technician robot tasked with the maintenance of an orbital space cannon when it comes under attack from NEOD forces. The game does not feature a detailed plot or background. Instead the focus is on task completion with the assistance of another un-named and incapacitated robot similar to Blitz.

Development

RoboBlitz uses a middleware tool developed by Allegorithmic to store its textures procedurally. This technique is used to make the game file size smaller, the actual game is less than 50 megabytes on Xbox Live.

Reception

RoboBlitz was met with critical acclaim and has received several awards and honors. The game was nominated for the 2007 Independent Games Festival for both the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Excellence in Visual Art awards. The game was the Grand Prize winner for the 2007 Indie Games Showcase, a winner of the GameTap Indie Award, and "Best Digital Download Game of the Year" by Play Magazine.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows7 November 2006Worldwide
Xbox 3606 December 2006Worldwide

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