BigBot Smash

From Ayopa Games LLC comes BigBot Smash, a game in which (can you guess?) you control a big robot (did you?) and stomp/roll/hover around and smash things, namely buildings, busses, cop cars, people, helicopters and airplanes. Sounds great right?

Not so much. The latest update for BigBot Smash integrates a number of new features that adds a lot more depth to the game, including enhanced controls, expanded customization and upgradeability. Also included in the update is a...  Read More

From Ayopa Games LLC comes BigBot Smash, a game in which (can you guess?) you control a big robot (did you?) and stomp/roll/hover around and smash things, namely buildings, busses, cop cars, people, helicopters and airplanes. Sounds great right?

Not so much. The latest update for BigBot Smash integrates a number of new features that adds a lot more depth to the game, including enhanced controls, expanded customization and upgradeability. Also included in the update is a tutorial. A tedious and maddening tutorial that promises to “turn any beginner into an expert in two minutes”, but which is so long and detailed I almost lost interest in the smashing of things which it was supposed to be teaching me how to do.

Luckily, I’m a rather competent user of iPhones and video games alike, so I was able to figure out most of what I needed to know without the tutorial. So I started playing the game and smashing things.

There are three modes of play available. The Main Campaign sends you, a robot, out on a hunt to collect the lost and dismantled pieces of your robot sweetheart, whom the humans have destroyed (for what I can only imagine were probably good reasons). Speed Demolition, the most fun of the three play modes, involves walking around the city and destroying as many buildings as you can within a certain time limit. Survival Challenge puts you in the middle of the city and sends wave after wave of vicious humans out to destroy you.

All that is well and good, but the act of smashing things ultimately left me unsatisfied. Buildings are smashed by you directing your bot to them, and then your bot walks into/onto them, sometimes waves his arms around, and the building explodes into polygonal shards. You can also jump on top of buildings and humans, a frustratingly imprecise affair, made even more difficult by how tiny all of the humans are. Luckily this app has a pinch zoom feature, otherwise the people would be entirely impossible to see.
If you feel the need to smash things really badly with a big robot, this game is probably worth the purchase price (currently $0.99), but if not, you’re probably better off saving your dollar.  Close

Posted February 20, 2012