Changes: Robot Wars: Advanced Destruction

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Robot Wars: Advanced Destruction is the third out of a total of five Robot Wars video games. It was created by Crawfish Interactive and published by BBC Multimedia for the Game Boy Advance. It was also released in the US by Vivendi Universal Games. The only change made for the US version being that Jonathan Pearce's voice was replaced with that of a different voice actor, possibly Stefan Frank.

Arenas

Like the previous game, Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction, Advanced Destruction featured more than one arena to play in. This game featured four different arenas, each with their own pitfalls and traps.

War Zone - Based on the Series 4 version of the Robot Wars Arena with floor spikes and circular saw hazards and pit.
Robot Factory - Taking place in a factory. Hazards include a spiked pit and flamethrowers mounted on turrets.
Steelworks - Based on a steelworks. The main hazards are rivers of molten metal that will instantly eliminate any robots that fall into them.
Power Station - Set in some kind of futuristic power station. The only hazard is an electrical current passing between two pylons.

Modes

Quick Match

A single battle between two robots randomly selected by the computer. Battles are always fought under Championship settings.

Robot Workshop

Here, a player may create their own robot. A robot can be created any way the player desires, but it must be under the specified weight limit.

Games

There are three main games in Advanced Destruction.

Championship is the main event of the game. Here, the player picks a robot and controls it through seven battles. As the game is based on Series 4, the first battle is a three-way melee where one robot is eliminated, whilst the rest are one-on-one knockout battles.

Vengeance Match is a customizable match. The player may choose two robots, an arena to fight in and also toggle various settings (how long a match will last, inclusion of the House Robots and so on).

Robot Mayhem pits a single robot up against every other robot in the game, in the order they appear in the Select Screen, plus the House Robots. The robots will attack any robot, and won't neccessarily gang up on the player's robot. The Mayhem is won once all 21 robots are defeated.

Multiplayer

Up to four players can play battles and other games in this mode.

Options

Here, the player can toggle the music, sound, controls and difficulty and also view the credits.

Competitor Robots

Cover Gallery

Credits

With special thanks to Steve Plotnicki, Benton Levy and all at Mentorn Barraclough Carey
Robot Wars theme tune by Golden Break Music
Game Commentary by Jonathan Pearce

BBC Worldwide

Senior Producer: Louise Merlin
Executive Producer: Dave Anderson
Head of Rights and Aquisitions: Sian Teasdale
Localisation Manager: Lena Strand
Localisation Assistant: Alejandra Jimenez
Technical Manager: Kish Mirani
Product Development Director: Sarah Hennings
Director of Multimedia: Dave Lee

Vivendi Universal (US version only)

Marketing: Koren Buckner, Lori Inman
Business Development: Jill de Grand

Robot Team Members

Behemoth: Anthony Pritchard, Michael Pritchard, Kane Aston
Cassius II: Rex Garrod, Simon West, Mick Cutter
Chaos 2: George Francis, Ian Swann, Richard Swann
Diotoir: Peter Redmond, Cairon Byrne, Joe Gavin
Dominator II: Peter Halloway, Paul Tolliday, Elliot Smart, Chris Hall, Bruce Benson
Hypno-Disc: Dave Rose, Ken Rose, Derek Rose
Mortis Infranor: Rob Knight, Arthur Chilcott, Ben Gord
Onslaught: Alan Wood, David Wood, Pete Holland
Panic Attack: Kim Davies, Michael Davies, Christian Bridge
Plunderbird 4: Mike Onslow, Bryan Kilburn
Pussycat: Alan Gribble, David Gribble, Robert Bettington
Razer: Ian Lewis, Simon Scott, Vincent Blood
Stinger: Kevin Scott, Karl Skinner, Tim Mann
Terrorhurtz: John Reid, Dominic Parkinson, Rebecca Reaston-Brown
Tornado: Andrew Marchant, David Gamble, Bryan Moss
101: Mike Franklin, Amy Franklin, Steve Bickle

Crawfish Interactive Ltd.

Programming: Ian James
Artwork: Deep Fried Ltd
Producer: James Brown
Music / SFX: Rocket Music
Director of Development: Mike Merren
Development Assistants: William Greenough, David Murphy
Special Thanks: Gianluca Cancelmi, Cameron Sheppard, Colin Kendrick, Lynne Bradstock
Extra Special Thanks: Martin Stocker, Donna Thomson, Jamie Brown, Leslie Thomson, Bobby Thomson

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 '''Robot Wars: Advanced Destruction''' is the third out of a total of five [[Robot Wars video games]]. It was created by Crawfish Interactive and published by BBC Multimedia for the Game Boy Advance. It was also released in the US by Vivendi Universal Games. The only change made for the US version being that [[Jonathan Pearce]]'s voice was replaced with that of a different voice actor, possibly [[Stefan Frank]].
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