1993 · First-person shooter · Simulation

Ultrabots

1993 video game

Released: 1993
Platforms: MS-DOS
Genres: First-person shooter Simulation
Developers: —
Publishers: Electronic Arts
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action Science fiction
Country: United States
Languages: English

About

Ultrabots (called Xenobots in Europe) is a first-person shooter video game developed by NovaLogic for MS-DOS and published by Electronic Arts in 1993. The player controls a group of giant robots and battles other giant robots.

Keywords

post-apocalyptic
mech
mecha

Media

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Gameplay

Gameplay consists of deploying a group of robots to an area and engaging enemy forces. Both sides will typically have a number of robots and a base to protect. Damaged robots can return to the base for repairs. As robots take damage, they will become harder to control and use as various systems fail.

The user can take direct control of one of the robots in field at will, or leave them autonomous in field and provide only strategic goal-driven control from the base.

Development

Ultrabots was developed by California-based Novalogic. The game was originally announced in early 1992 under the title Ultrabots: Sanction Earth and was to be published by Data East for both the PC and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). The latter version was cancelled and the publication rights to the PC version were acquired by Electronic Arts later that same year.

Reception

Computer Gaming World called Ultrabots "a very novel and worthwhile experience". A 1994 survey of strategic space games set in the year 2000 and later gave the game two-plus stars out of five, stating that "Any similarity to Mechwarriors is superficial".