Bad Bots

2013 game

This is literally the reason I acquired Steam. I had been avoiding it for some time, and at this point, I don't even remember why. These were still the days in which Steam wasn't essentially the absolutely required hub for games, though, so it might have been partially because of that. Whatever the case, I had worked with the developer of this game on a project previously, and I wanted to support him by getting this. I really enjoy the game, too. Its atmosphere, graphics, and story are really engrossing. The only downside I'd have to say is that it's pretty tough, and that might actually be more of my fault for being bad at the genre than anything else. I really want to see more in this vein from the developer, but unfortunately I haven't seen or heard anything from him in years.

At first, I liked the game. Controls are a little bit nasty at the beginning, but soon you can handle it. Graphic style is quite cool, story is nice.
Played a little bit and then ... well, you meet all the caveats.
- Some screens holds tons of enemies. The red ones won't do much harm, but they're very annoying. Far too much of them. Lacking of good level design, enemies are thrown at you. And more enemies. And even more enemies.
- The game is unfair. Enemies with weapons shoot at you before you can see them. And they are quite good shooters. While they can hit you, it doesn't mean that you can do also vice versa. Nope. No chance.
- You aim, you shoot. WTF, I MUST have hit them. Well, can be. Often, it isn't.
- Pain in the ass to jump around with your character. Pressing a button of the gamepad would be too easy. You have to move the controller stick upwards. No fun, if ... tons of enemies keep firing their bullets at you. Did I mention that they are good shooters?

Sorry, could have been a good one!

Thumbs up but barely. Overall it's pretty fun but I would recommend playing on easy as the game has stunlock which can kill you quite fast if you're not careful. According to the dev its a feature from making the game too easy, if you ask me it was irritating, annoying and unnecessary (see below). Also, you get a pistol then very shortly afterward you get an automatic rifle but then no other upgrades for you main gun- until you get to almost the end (and it's partially hidden too and easily misseable). Special weapons work fine and are fun but the ammo is way too limited. Controls are slightly awkward as you move with the left analog stick and it also lets you jump too. I would've preferred a dedicated button to jump instead.

Started on normal and got to the last boss. After beating the boss I couldn't get past the last section. I restarted the game on easy, skipped all the cutscenes and plowed through it in about an hour and a half. My first run took about 4 hours Btw. So you may want to try easy first.

On the plus side there's some nicely done still cutscenes which keep the story going. The music is also fantastic...i was expecting some generic metal/rock but instead it was ambient synth, (think the first terminator movie). Whoever did the music did a really good job I think.

5.5/10

Hordes and hordes of enemies doesnt necessarily mean its fun. Theres really no purpose to this game. The bosses are pretty jank, and the art style has way too many saturated colors. Definitely a game to avoid.

I recommend this game to pretty much anyone who loves shooting games like Duke Nukem 1 n 2, Biomenace, Abuse. It reminds me that kind of DOS games where you run jump and shoot stuff. Also, the guys that worked on the game helped me instantly when i had a problem with a savegame. It has replayability too. What else do you need really :D

This game is like the best project out of videogame production class for highschoolers. Not bad, but not great either. I guess I recomend it. I had fun, though there were a couple almost impossible parts in the game if you play on regular difficulty.

I'm giving this a negative reccomendation, but also suggesting if you really want this... get it while it is really cheap on sale.

To be completely honest... the game is competent at best of being a sidescrolling shooter.
It is short, about an hour, has a variety of weapons that differ just enough to warrant them, and the shooting itself isn't too bad. The most glaring issues are the overpowered stunlocks that can screw you over on higher difficulties, the sheer volume of enemies that are thrown at you at times (stacked on top of the stunlocking), and especially a couple bosses that basically are all about stunlocking you (see a pattern here?). After a bit, you will bunnyhop as often as possible to avoid this problem (or at least, try to, it can still get you.

Meh. Bought this for $1.50 so I can't really complain. It's an old school side scroller with old school design. It other words, it's a controller thrower...

It gets very repetitive, has no map despite a maze-like ship, has a terrible animation when you get hit that causes major problems later, and has a boring storyline whose sole twist you'll see coming from the start.

The difficulty can be adjusted, but in game it's pretty simple until the final part of the story. All of a sudden the difficulty is ramped WAY up. Instead of 4-5 opponents on screen, you've fighting 20 or more at once. Also, instead of the one hit kills you fought en masse earlier, these opponents take several shots to kill. Don't worry though, you get more powerful weapons along the way in the story, BUT in this phase they're very, very limited to what you brought and the crappy shotgun. Expect to run out of ammo before you clear the first room, and there are three of these... What makes it worse is that crappy "I got hit" animation that causes you to effectively get stuck in your enemies if you make the slightest mistake while moving non-stop during this phase. I can't say this is "old school design", just a huge design mistake.

Once you get past this area you get to fight a boss that you must grind down slowly. No easy trick to beat it and it'll take a few attempts for you to get the pattern down.

I won't say this game is completely awful, but it's not great. There are better games to be played on Steam unless you really long for the old side scroller days (in which case, have at it).

Well Bad Bots is not either Bad or Good it is average.
Why you asking ? I will tell you the story.

First of all there are no gamebreaking bugs or mistake that will stop you from finish what you started. But the game lost his faith a two stupid gameplay functions. The first one is the you are hit by electric or melee animation that will keep you struggling and stun locks you in the first final run. And the second his that you will keep climbing up at edges, even when you want to go down.

Ok ok stop it. I tell you somethin you dont even know about. I will go backwards.

Bad Bot is a Game of his genre to be an average one. It contain a simple story and no really deep Gameplay functions. Just run and gun.

The enemy is an army full of robots and they want to kill you. How unforgened that this is to simple. There are different types of enemys and there a map obstacle that arent really funny. But there are only two parts of each level where you gonna die. Both parts are nearly at the end. The First one is the run thru the sleep quaters. At this point you need to fight lot of melee enemys that spawn until a current amount is reached. There is problem number one. The problem based on the you are hit by melee animation that will stun lock you and you die. The second part is the End fight against mother. Not a big deal but you need along time to take her down. Because she has a big amount of Health.

The rest simple, repeated and not challenging at all.

And it is short.
Do I recommend it to buy and play it.
Yes and No. 5 bucks are to much more 4 hours. It isnt worth.
When you like Game of that type you should buy it and played. better wait for sale.
To the rest. This game is no must have. But it is a nice have.

To all of the cons mentioned in the other reviews I'd like to add my five cents:

- Awful sctrolling mechanics. The game starts scrolling the screen when you are about 1\4th of the screen away from the edge of the screen. As a result, you can't see where you're going. Thankfully, there are few punishing platforming traps.
- However, enemies CAN see and shoot you and you can't shoot them back (well, you can shoot, but the collision won't register) unless about a half of their sprite is on the screen. Invulnerable shooting enemies would be freaking frustrating if they weren't so easy.
- Iffy platform detection. Those hanging blue thingies don't have solid edges. Thankfully, the game doesn't have challenging jumps.
- Badly designed boss fights. Well, at least the first one with Jackhammer bot. The arena has an obstacle, which you must jump over, but the boss can pass by. Combined with it's speed and fast melee attack wich resets your jump height and stunlocks you, again it would be very unfair and frustrating if it wasn't so easy. Just bring a big gun.
- Bad aiming system. The aim sometimes jumps unpredictably, is very roughly sampled despite using analog aiming, glitches when the aiming cursor is near the edges of the screen. And itself is illogical being relative to your position, so that it shifts when you jump, not continuing to target the designated spot as you would normally expect. I see no reason why devs would do that.
- And the most important - you can't change the controls. Is it 2014 now or not?

I guess, with a 91% discount I wouldn't call it wasted money, but there are sertainly far better platformers to waste your time and money on.

EDIT:
Second boss.
Yyep, fast moving, with stunlock melee, which you can't reliably dodge, because it's faster than and bigger than you. And it itself is a hazard - a big fast ball of stunning hurt which you can't ountrun or dodge. Worsened by small weakspot hitbox, which you can't accurately hit because your goddamn aim shifts uncontrollably with your jumps!

And two previous zombie shootout-like scenes (with stunlock melee enemies!), which depleted all my heavy weaponry.

Not sure if I want to continue this =\

Bought the game for $.45 though steam says this is a full controller game, it is NOT. being disabiled and playing games with one hand. This game would be way more easier to play on a controller.

It's an original game for sure, but it's not very fun. Too repetitive, and non-stop action. So You only do one thing,it's shooting robots.

Bad Robots is a ScFi epic. Taking many influence from other brillent shooters suck as " Aliens Coloniol Marines" and "Duke Nukem Forever" you play as a on the job marine who is hired to do stuff, much like Aliens Colonial Marines thoughout the majority of the game you will find yourself having to BATTLE evil aliens, or in the case of BAD BOTs, robots. Never have i been so compilled to finish a level, because of the beatiful stunning 3d graphics i was fully captivated to learn more about the unique world, reading every bit of dialog along the way. Also another point that captivated me was the fact that the games controls where so flunt, much like Superman 64 on the nintendo 3ds gamecube model 10. Easily the greatest game ive played since ET on the atari game box machine.

Id recommend this game to all children, adults, aliens, inbreeds of all age, race and chromosomes

10/10 would bang

The game is fun but extremely buggy. I first got the game and had to wait a few weeks for a patch to be released since there was a bug where the first boss spawns which makes you unable to fight the boss(he just stands in the corner and never comes to life)
This issue was fixed and I have encountered another game freezing bug which makes me unable to complete the game. It is not a bad game when it works but please do not waste your money on this unplayable garbage because even after a few updates there are still game ending bugs in this.

i payed £1 for this and its good for a pound but there is some bugs were you can fall off the map and you have to restart your game, even tho this happens i still must say its a great time killer =]

For a side scroller platformer, this is highly (I guess lowly maybe a better word for it) under-rated game. I've said it before and I'll reiterate, to give a game a bad rating for bugs that are later fixed down the road and not update your rating is just poor judgement. There are little quirks about this game that kind of bug me but all around is a solid game. Critics and even the gamers here need to revaluate the ratings for this after the fixes have been made. I'd give this a 7/10 on the fun scale an hour into this. I will be continuing this one further and update but I just had to show a little love for a game that has seen very little.
-RoX

As the name kind of give away its a bad game so there is at least honest advertising. Its a mediocre 2d sidescrolling shooter with among the most repetitive gameplay I have come across in a shooter game ever and the game has really poor pacing since the game goes on forever and ever before the first thing happen...and then you are all of a sudden on the end boss. The game has no music while you play at all and has a bunch of other strange design choices that really weirdly defended by the developer in a FAQ on the forums: http://steamcommunity.com/app/235070/discussions/0/828939797184939390/

The achievements in the game are fairly straight forward but has some missable stuff just towards the end so would hunt down the save folder location and duplicate your saves as you are getting close to the end in case you mess them up and overwrite your autosave forcing you to replay the entire game to be able to do things again. The most annoying achievement in the game is for dying 50 times which is surprisingly hard and actually is something you have to intentionally grind to get.

Time to 100%: 6 hours

With so many negative reviews it was hard for me to make the choice of whether or not to buy this game. I spent a great deal of time combing the forums to get a feel for what Bad Bots exactly was. Not to mention starting a post that insisted that games such as Bad Bots should have a demo when mixed reviews come into play.

Once the demo was made available, I spent about an hour playing Bad Bots, got a feel for the dynamics, and quickly realized that I needed this game ASAP.

That being said... The game is great. Bad Bots has an old school vibe that reminds me of a SEGA game called "Slime World." If you're into murdering blood thirsty robots and trying to save Earth from being attacked by the Titan Hauler, this is the game for you. As the only living human survivor aboard the ship its up to YOU to save the Earth from being overrun by millions of murderous robots.

Bad Bots has several different weapon upgrades and choices, tons of hidden rooms, and a great story that keeps you on your toes and guessing the whole time. Plot twists and hard bosses round out the game and make it a must have for anyone who enjoys a good platformer.

Graphics: 6/10
Playablity: 7/10
Story: 8/10
Challenge: 7/10
Replay Value: 8/10

So, this is a BYOM ... bring your own music type of game. Without any music in the game, save for boss battles and certain areas, you will have to put a soundtrack to the game while you play, but hey, a fun little indie-gem with a wonderful balance of run and gun fun!