Rise of the Robots After a disappointing 90s fighting game, lets try and get back on the horse. I mean, it’s not like there was a shortage of 1 Vs 1 arcade style fighting games in that era. Few of them were going to match the quality of Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat, but sometimes you just need a little change of pace. They already screwed up dinosaurs, but robots are cool too. How could you possibly screw that up? Check out this add from GamePro back in the day. Look at all these badass robots: But as we learned last week, just having a cool concept and shoehorning it into a fighting game wasn’t always a recipe for success. Publisher Time Warner missed the mark a little bit with Primal Rage. They missed it completely with Rise of the Robots. I could say this game sucks, but that wouldn’t accurately convey how terrible it is. I would call it crap, but I would never disparage fecal matter by comparing it...
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