Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction

Robot Wars: Arenas Of Destruction (often abbreviated as RWAOD) is the second out of a total of four Robot Wars games. It was created by Climax Entertainment and published by BBC Multimedia. It was created for the PC, Xbox and PS2. In this game, players fight in many arenas and tournaments in order to earn money and build robots. The game has a variety of arenas that each contain varying degrees of hazards including pits, unexploded mines, car crushing devices and molten metal. The arenas are as follows:


 * The Main Robot Wars arena in London, England.
 * A North Sea Oil Rig.
 * An abandoned Military Base in Siberia
 * A Steelworks in New York, U.S.A.
 * A Dockyard in Hamburg, Germany.
 * A Scrapyard in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
 * A rooftop in Japan.
 * Inside a volcano in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.

Buying and Making a Robot
When you first start this game, you start with 2000 credits and a robot called "My First Bot", which is small wedge shaped robot armed with a pickaxe and armoured in wood. You can sell this robot and get an extra 1350 credits to spend on a new one. There are various parts to use when making a robot. The chassis cost 100-500 credits, the locomotion costs 0-1700, the power costs 100-1500, the drive costs 40-3500, the weapons cost 150-9000, the armour costs 100-5000, and the extras cost 10-100 credits, but you can get some items at a lower price in the scrapyard.

Robot Battles
You fight robots in championships in order to gain money. In the later tournaments, you need to pay money in order to go into the tournament. You can choose from numerous options depending on what type of battle you want. There is Freeplay Mode, where you can battle against up to five CPUs, the CPUs are chosen at random. There are five different types of Freeplay Battle. These are:


 * One on Ones - Battle against another robot.
 * Annihilator - Battle against 1-5 robots.
 * Collateral Damage - This is about causing as much damage as possible.
 * Capture the Flag - This is where you must get the flag and hold onto it until the match ends.
 * Mad Bomber - This is where a robot has a bomb attached to it and the robot must give another robot the bomb. If a robot doesn't get rid of the bomb, the bomb will explode eliminating the robot.

Freeplay Mode is both a Single and Multiplayer mode. You can also choose to not have the House Robots in the arena.

The second mode of play is Vengeance, this can be Single or Multiplayer. In Vengeance mode you can only go up against a robot that is in your possesion, i.e a robot you have made or bought. Unlike Freeplay mode, you must have the House Robots in the arena.

The thrid mode of play is Training Ground. This is where you can practice your skills against three challenges. These challenges are:


 * Slalom - Where you attempt to get your chosen robot through a slalom in quickest time.
 * Robot Battle - This is a one on one battle against a robot of your choice. There is also no commentary in this mode.
 * Ultimate Challenge - This is where you can take any of your robots and put them up against a House Robot.

Playable Robots and House Robots
There are many playable robots that must be bought in order to use them. Robots are seperated into Weight categories which are, Lightweight, Middleweight, Heavyweight and Super Heavyweight. Robots that participated in reality are very expensive and a re classed as Super Heavyweights, the only exception to this is Chaos 2 which is classed as a Heavyweight. The following robots are the "Real-life" Robots:


 * Behemoth
 * Chaos 2
 * Diotoir
 * Firestorm 2
 * Hypno-Disc
 * Mortis
 * Panic Attack
 * Pussycat
 * Razer
 * Terrorhurtz

Although the setting for this game is around Series 4 and 5 of Robot Wars, Refbot does not appear, but Dead Metal, Shunt, Sir Killalot, Matilda and Sergeant Bash do. It should also be noted that Dead Metal is only seen in the Ultimate Challenge.

Voice Artists
There are two voices in this game, they are the commentary which is done by Real Robot Wars commentator Jonathan Pearce and there is the Robot Builder Advisor, voiced by Beatie Edney.