ROBOT Spells Weird

The game is called R.O.B.O.T. Why they just don't call it "Robot" is beyond me. Perhaps they thought they were being clever. Who knows. The point is that Robot is a free game that can be downloaded to your mobile device. Whether you choose to play and for how long is entirely up to you.

You control the one good robot. Your job is to walk around shooting all the bad robots. Are you still following? Games like these tend to be very complicated! Yes, after killing lots of evil, bad robots, you go to the robot garage. At the garage, you can now decide what you want to upgrade. See, for every bad robot you kill, you earn a certain number of "cores." No one ever explains what these cores are, but they basically serve as money.

In the garage, you can either fix your robot up or buy more ammunition or even a fast set of legs (wheels?). Spend wisely since you do not have enough money to do everything. That is why it is so important not to get hit when battling other robots. Every core you must spend to repair yourself is one less core you can be spending on better abilities.

Of course, it almost goes without saying that if you waste ammo, you will not be playing for very long. After playing a bit, you will learn which bad guys go down with one shot and which will require a few hits. Then you won't have to wait and see if you have killed your target before firing again. Wait and see tactics save ammo but when you are being attacked from all directions, you don't have the luxury of unlimited time.

Now if you do have unlimited time you can play this game for awhile and learn to master all of its sophisticated nuances. But that shouldn't take more than an hour!