The downloadable (Windows) Mr. Robot offers a little something for everyone, with an incredible mix of visual elements, storyline, RPG, action adventure puzzles, and battles.
You play Asimov, a "lowly service mechanoid" at the mercy of the increasingly flaky computer brain of the good ship Eidolon. The game takes places in an isometric point of view where you move Asimov through the ship to solve puzzles. Initially, you are given fairly simple missions—move a few boxes, collect a few bundles of energy, and get slapped around by bigger robots. As the story progresses it becomes clear that all is not well on the Eidolon. A human member of the crew is dead and strange things are happening to the ship's records...
Analysis: The mixed gameplay of Mr. Robot is both a strength and a weakness. On the one hand, there is a variety of things to do—equip your team with shields, weapons and so on, fight battles, push boxes around, get through mazes without getting killed, and so forth. On the other hand, I really like RPGs and really don't like Sokoban, and in order to successfully get through the game you need to be willing to take on both the RPG and puzzle elements. You'll enjoy this game a lot if you like both. (I'm currently stuck on a quite early level where I have to get through a room full of hostile droids with no obvious path to the door. Grrrr.)
On the very big plus side, the game is beautifully illustrated with a dry sense of humour. Cheer on poor Asimov as he endures the taunts of Samson and the "I-think-of-you-as-a-brother" attitude of Zelda, and struggles to rise above his programmed station in life. And if you work out how to get through that maze, please please please leave a spoiler in the comments!
Windows:
Download the demo
Order the full version
Mac OS X:
Not available. Use Boot Camp or Parallels.
Mr. Robot is available to download from these affiliates:
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The demo was fun, but a little too short. I might get the full game, if my parents let me.
Posted by: XFire | March 18, 2007 4:47 AM
Domo arigato!
Excellent game.
Posted by: Murphy | March 18, 2007 7:43 AM
I object that it's too entertaining, but costs too much cash for me to spare. Pity.
Posted by: Maduin | March 18, 2007 3:24 PM
I'm stuck at this horrible puzzle where I have to keep raising the solvent level and move and jump on floating blocks.
Posted by: Luckdragon | March 19, 2007 1:18 PM
I got an error when I tried to launch the game, and it crashed! Can anyone explain what this is?
Failed to select technique zero from shader - data/gui/font.shader
Assert failed!
Expression: 0
File: .\Source\DX9Renderer_SceneGraph.cpp
Line: 891
Function: CDX9Renderer::LoadShaderFromPath
Call Stack:
004EB7F9 0012FA64 0001:000EA7F9 C:\Program Files\MrRobot\MrRobot.exe
Posted by: Evilwumpus | March 19, 2007 2:42 PM
Evil, I'm afraid you have the exact same problem I have: Our video cards are not 1337 enough to play this game.
;_; I hate the constant need to upgrade for next-gen PC games. Damn you game makers, damn you video card makers, and damn you progress!
Posted by: Ben | March 19, 2007 8:40 PM
The 'failed to select technique zero' error is caused (usually) by lack of vertex shader support. Usually GeForce4MX's.
Apologies - we should put better error messages in for that.
We actually gave out about ten free graphics cards to the first people who reported this problem - you can buy a graphics card for $15 that will play Mr. Robot, it doesn't require you to spend millions on a water cooled quad-core machine! :)
-Nick
Posted by: Fost | March 23, 2007 5:50 AM
I don't know if it was because I submitted it or it was just stumbled upon but I'm glad this game got reviewed. The Moonpod guys do some great work. I liked this game a lot. Played it for 2 straight days until I beat it. Then played it again to try and find all the ghosts.
Posted by: xadrian
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March 27, 2007 2:12 PM
Great game! The first time I tried to play it I kept getting the "assert Failed" error. Finally it started working. I got through a couple levels and loved it. Tried to play the next day and got the "assert failed" error again. This time no luck in getting it to work. My hardware is fairly new and I cannot afford to upgrade anything because I'm disabled and can't work. Nice waste of the money. It was a gift from a friend so he is out of it. I have read that there are alot of folks with this error. Isn't there a fix or a patch that can be done for this? Thanks anyway.
Posted by: Ken | December 13, 2007 8:38 PM
ive played mr robot for a loooooooooooooooooong time and im still stuck on the same bit no matter how many times i delete a file anmd make a new one... its the bit where you need to get the nanobite robot thingies-(the small things in recharge) i cant get them into the other hole on the second last door!
any tips?
Posted by: robothack | January 17, 2008 6:12 PM
You can play MrRobot for free on game tap. I love this game. moonpod also offers starscape If Mr. R. is not your thing. space age shootem up very in depth.
Posted by: Max | April 13, 2008 9:47 PM