Good!
...but very bad AI
Reviews for "BotArena2"
AI problems
You made a great game, first of all. The graphics were superb, the weapons and armor were fairly good, plus you have 10 levels. But when you play the last 2 or 3 levels, you soon realized that the AI SUCKS!! I had a medic with two heavys, and in the beginning they seem to be doing well, with the medic behind the main attack bots, but within a few seconds, my bots separate, go to some corner to jack off, while my medic is sitting there getting raped. Only when it's dead does my other bots realize that they can't jack off in a fight, and try futilly to defeat the other bots, which cheapingly have lazer technology and can fry my best armor available in 5 shots. Not only does the medic have problems, regular bots tend to act drunk frequently. They'd battle, and all of a sudden stop and waddle around a bit, then find each other again and fight. They also tend to like humping walls, separating from the group, and HITTING THEIR OWN GUYS. I would expect, with such technology so sophisticated that it can create bots, that they would be able to differenciate friend from foe. Apparently, I was wrong.
Aside from all the frustration, this is a fairly good game, and I would've given you a 5 if it weren't for the annoying problems.
Good, if glitchey.
It's a very good idea, I just have a few suggestions:
1. Obviously, make it not crash and make the saving work.
2. Some interactivity would be nice. Right now it's just seeing what combination of X items tend to work the best against a particular enemy, and memorizing it... even just some basic AI sliders would be helpful. Make it try to keep the enemy in the specified range for the weapon, have utility bots try to avoid being attacked, give them better object collision detection...
3. Maybe some variation in the weapons? Ones with a long range but weak attack, with an explosive radius, ones that are slow but do more damage, ones that have to charge up...
4. More utility weapons. Besides healing, put mine laying, or ones that make enemies less accurate, or slower, or have a shorter range...
5. Maybe an extra slot, for another type of weapon? For example, a defensive lazier that could, say, destroy incoming missiles, or something that made the sensors better...
6. Randomized battles?
fun
I really like the concept and the gameplay (I'm lazy as hell so that all works out for me). However...every time i play i get like halfway through and Internet explorer shuts down on me...the save feature doesn't work, and I've tried to beat this game like 6 times already, it get's kind of annoying ya know?
Other than that, the game is great fun...like the previous guy said...i'd like to see improved AI with tactical options and such...perhaps a multiplayer mode (???) I gave it a 9
loool
i don't know why but sum how it's funny to watch bots get jammed in the corner XD, Nice 2-D graphics n sounds and great gme play ^_^
Desserved good ratings ;D I RECCOMMEND PLAYING THIS! =D