Friday, September 19, 2025

Super Metal Crusher for PCE


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Super Metal Crusher

Robot Wars


Genre: strategy - rts

Publisher: Pack-In-Video

Year: 1991

System: PCE


Gameplay Score: 0

Gameplay Notes:

I'm not sure how to even describe this game. Actually, it's easy to describe, but hard to categorize. It's not much of a game, to be honest, since the only interactivity is when you distribute skill points to your robot. So I guess it's a strategy game. You design a robot by allocating the aforementioned points to various stats like I.Q., Speed, Shield, and Attack Range . After that you watch your little guy fight it out with an opponent. That's it. You just watch a fight until it's over.


Level Design Score: 0

Level Design Notes:

There are two modes - Battle and Practice. Battle takes you through a series of fights while Practice lets you fight only one. In Battle your opponent is randomly selected so you can't devise a strategy for an upcoming fight. So it's all up to the RNG gods. What a dumb game.


Theme Score: 4

Theme Notes:

Mechs! It reminds me of Robot Wars, Robotrek, and the bot fighting in Big Hero 6.


Art Style Score: 2

Art Style Notes:

The robots are all cute, chunky, squashed sprites. The arenas are unimpressive without any obstacles or other environmental elements. Not much to see here.


Audio Score: 4

Audio Notes:

I love the music. It's reminiscent of songs from Blaster Master and Metal Storm on the NES.


Overall Score: 16

Review ID: 8133



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