Line #36 VideoGame/RiseOfTheRobots


1	[[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rise_of_the_robots_u000.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:256:The Title Screen (SNES version).]]
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4	-> ''ANALYSING FORM.......'' \
5	''ROBOT IDENTIFIED: TROPER [=TVTR101=] COMBAT DROID CLASS B.'' \
6	''INTELLIGENCE: HIGH'' \
7	''POWER RATING: EXCELLENT'' \
8	''COMBAT ABILITIES: EXCELLENT'' \
9	''STRENGTHS: INTELLIGENCE, AGILITY, REDACTION AND ORAL ABILITIES.'' \
10	''WEAK POINTS: NO SOCIAL SKILLS'' \
11	''THREAT: EXTREMELY HIGH.''
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13	-> '''''CAUTION.''' DROID ACTIVATED AND APPROACHING.''
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15	''Rise Of The Robots'' is a fighting game released in 1994 for the Platform/{{IBM PC}}, Platform/{{Amiga}}, Platform/GameGear, Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem, Platform/SegaGenesis, Platform/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer and Platform/PhilipsCDi.
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17	The game's premise was dead simple, and by the standards of any beat-em-up, perfectly functional. [[{{AI Is A Crapshoot}} The Supervisor]], a [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay T-1000]] {{Expy}} with boobs, is the central robot in charge of a large robotics plant. All is going well, until a computer virus suddenly gives her sentience. She transmits the virus to the rest of the plant's robot workers, causing them to kill all the humans inside and try to find a way to connect to the outside mainframe. The only way to prevent The Supervisor from uploading the virus to the rest of the city is to kill her. Enter Coton, a cloned {{Cyborg}} programmed to fight his way to the Supervisor's lair and kick her highly textured ass.
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19	If the game has any greater legacy than just being awful, it is that it solved the issue of the increasing number of video game magazines - [[GoneHorriblyRight although not in the way they would have liked.]]
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22	To try and attract readers, some were giving 'exclusives' of games, promising high scores in return for advance review copies. Some of these games were still in Beta and even Alpha testing, and others would even review based on PC screenshots. Some would diss the game in the review but give scores of 80% and more at the end. Nobody really noticed when a game turned out to be good anyway, but with ''Rise'' being so universally bad by any other standards, its exceptionally high 'exclusive' review scores caused a sharp loss in trust for the common news-stand magazine.
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24	A sequel, ''Rise 2: Resurrection'', was released on the PC, Platform/PlayStation, and Platform/SegaSaturn in 1996. This one featured a new cast of characters, on top of the returning robots, and numerous gameplay improvements that were overshadowed by the overall design of the game, that is [[FollowTheLeader try to be like]] [[Franchise/StreetFighter two certain other]] [[Franchise/MortalKombat fighting games]] but betray the mechanics from both in certain ways. Nevertheless, it is more balanced and playable than the first ([[DamnedByFaintPraise as little as that's saying]]).
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27	!!This series contains examples of:
28	* AWinnerIsYou:
29	** [[spoiler: All you get for beating the Supervisor in the first game is a shot of her exploding, then a brief sentence of text and a clip show of all the FMV sequences in the game that repeats until you reset.]]
30	** Beating ''Rise 2'' gives you [[spoiler: a generic "You kicked the Supervisor's butt" ending, with the lines repeating in different variations.]]
31	* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In the story for ''Rise 2: Resurrection'', the Supervisor manages to defeat and absorb the Cyborg, destroying his body and copying his brain patterns to the rest of her robots.]]
32	* ArtificialStupidity: Most enemies can be easily beaten by just backing them into a corner and kicking them to death. Sometimes your opponent will even just drop all pretenses and walk into the corner themselves.
33	** The Sentry can be easily flummoxed by just crouching and kicking. Watch as he flails around with his spinning roundhouse over your head and only occasionally gets a hit or two in.
34	** All this is especially ironic given how the marketing boasted about the game's allegedly complex AI and how your opponents learn from their mistakes.
35	* BigBad: The Supervisor.
36	* BlatantLies:
37	** Music by Brian May was promised for the game. Most console versions that advertised this lacked all the music by him (with the exception of the intro music).
38	** The second game has a track on the [=PS1=] disc, but never actually plays in game. This too was advertised inexplicably.
39	** One advertisement boasts about the complex AI that learns and adapts to its opponent. Anyone who's played the game can tell you [[ArtificialStupidity just how wrong that is.]]
40	* BodySnatcher: Coton in ''Rise 2'' simply possesses whatever robot you chose to play as.
41	* ChromeChampion: The Cyborg, while the Supervisor is his EvilCounterpart (but with shapeshifting.)
42	* CigarChomper: [[https://youtu.be/tu8k-yjFhFM?t=1h8m44s Builder, inexplicably.]]
43	* DigitizedSprites: The graphics used pre-rendered 3D backgrounds and sprites, with incredibly fluid animations for each character.
44	* ExcusePlot: The second game for the most part.
45	* FailsafeFailure: Subverted. The Supervisor's programmers actually thought ahead, and didn't give her access to any network outside the factory in case something like this happened. Doubly Subverted when [[spoiler: she absorbs the Cyborg's mind, letting her transmit the virus over a larger area.]]
46	* FakeDifficulty: Apparently the only way the dev team could think to create a difficulty curve was to just make each robot hit harder than the last (which completely breaks two-player mode, especially since one player ''has'' to play as the Cyborg.)
47	** Hard mode is also guilty of [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard blatant controller reading]] (then again, advertisements did brag about how the AI could [[NeverNeedsSharpening read your moves.]])
48	** Not to mention that there's no continues. At all. In a ''fighting game''.
49	* FinishingMove: ''Rise 2'' allowed you to perform E-X-E-C-U-T-I-O-N-S on your defeated foes at the end of a match.
50	* FullMotionVideo: The first game had plenty of this in almost all versions of the game.
51	* GameBreakingBug: The game [[https://twitter.com/aszaxa/status/1513974355574902790 can freeze]] if Supervisor loses a round by time out.
52	* AGodAmI: The Supervisor's view on things, post-virus.
53	* HaveANiceDeath: ''Rise of the Robots'' shows a FMV depicting the Cyborg being defeated if you lose a match. Likewise, all the other robots are given the same treatment.
54	* HealthyGreenHarmfulRed: In some ports, the characters' full health bar is depicted in green, and changes its colour to yellow, then to a dark shade of red: [[https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588615-rise-of-the-robots/images?pid=588615&img=118 SNES port]]; [[https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/genesis/917737-rise-of-the-robots/images?pid=917737&img=104 Genesis port]].
55	* LightningBruiser: In ''Rise of the Robots'', while each enemy gets progressively difficult, the Sentry Droid is big, bulky, and does the most damage yet, with size not hindering him at all. Just hope Player 2 decides not to use him.
56	* MascotMook: Of all the robots in the first game, Builder ends up getting the most screentime after Cyborg, being used for the continue screen in versions that allow continues and the game over screen in all versions.
57	* ReReleaseSoundtrack: The game was heavily advertised as featuring music by Music/BrianMay. However, they got into rights issues with EMI. Rather than delaying the game to resolve them, the developers completely replaced May's music with techno music by Fuzzy and Clownlogic. The Brian May soundtrack was eventually included on the 3DO and CD-i versions, letting the player choose between it or the techno soundtrack.
58	* ShoutOut: The Supervisor is less a ShoutOut and more like a rip-off of the T-1000 from ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''. She starts out showing off her hand blades, and being melted to the ground when defeated.
59	* SpamAttack: In ''Rise'', it's very possible to go through the whole game on easy and normal by walking up to your opponent and kick them to death.
60	* TotallyRadical: The ending for ''Rise 2: Resurrection'' tries to play on this. [[spoiler:[[OverlyLongGag It went on for nearly a minute, and it's just the game really emphasizing how much butt you kicked.]] ]]

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