Game Reviews: Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar

Robot Dinosaurs blah blah not gonna type all that again is a silly, lazy game. Pretty much the only reason I'm going to talk about it at all is because of this image from the intro movie.

I don't know why, but I find that image hilarious.

Anyway, there's not really much to the game-it's a simple shoot-em-up sidescrolling game such as usually involve spaceships, but with dinosaurs. Probably the most interesting aspect of gameplay is that your weapon is a huge beam that can wipe out lots of stuff, but you can't fire it constantly because you have a weapons gauge that runs out faster that way than it replenishes. So if you just hold down the firing button continuously, you'll get a few moments of a potent weapon, but then you'll just get a weak, useless fizzle, and will have to wait longer for it to work again than you would if you used it more carefully.

Short game, not much depth, but you could blow half an hour on it. That's all it's supposed to be, and it does it.

Oh, yes, one other thing: The intro movie has a bit that's not quite appropriate for children, although the rest of it is reasonably kid-friendly. Just so you know.

-Signing off.