Robot Wars Arena/Robot Wars: Extreme Destruction (PC/Xbox)

The TV Studio is one of the eight playable arenas in the video game Robot Wars: Extreme Destruction. It is a replica of the Robot Wars Arena, as it appeared from Series 5 onwards. It is one of three arenas unlocked at the very start of the game. It features four CPZ's, housing Shunt, Sergeant Bash, Matilda and Sir Killalot respectively.

Appearance and Hazards
Robot Wars: Extreme Destruction (PC/Xbox) was based on Robot Wars Extreme: Series 1, and the arena is indeed based on the incarnation of the arena that featured in this series. Almost all of the arena hazards of the real life version feature in this arena, including the flame pit, flame jets, CPZ's, CO2 jets, the arena floor flipper and the pit of oblivion (with a pit release button). However, the arena also features a working drop zone, which wasn't properly installed until Series 6 in real life. The arena also houses Refbot, who is present to extinguish fires on robots, give rebellious house robots red and yellow cards and count out immobilised robots. This arena also has entry gates which lower, this feature is shown as robots enter the arena during "Endurance" mode.

By the time of Extreme 1/Series 5 in real life, flipping robots out of the arena was starting to become quite a popular tactic for robots with flippers, this is passed on in-game, as it is much easier to defeat an opponent by flipping it out of the arena in the TV Studio arena in this game, as opposed to the previous Robot Wars video game: Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction.

The floor flipper will activate immediately if a robot passes over it, and the drop zone will activate if a robot lingers under the designated area for more than a couple of seconds, but unlike real life can activate multiple times in a battle. If a robot falls into the pit, smoke erupts, and the robot then disappears, this allows for an infinite number of robots to fall into the pit in one battle.

Glitches

 * It is possible for robots to be "pushed" out of the arena, if they linger pressed up against the side wall. This mostly occurs with robots that have certain exposed features, such as the wheels of Wheely Big Cheese.
 * House robots often come far out of their CPZ's to attack competitors, even if they were nowhere near their CPZ.
 * Refbot is designed to move away from any competitor that it approaches, however, the Refbot sometimes runs into a robot and proceeds with shunting it far across the arena, sometimes into the pit, which can often shape a loss for the player.