Medabots Infinity

More Power! More MEDABOTS!! Then it’s agreed! Are you ready?

JP release: 28th November 2003
NA release: 14th December 2003
EU release: 24th September 2004
Developer: Natsume
Publisher: Natsume
NGC Magazine Score: 19%
Mods Used: Widescreen Hack

Time for another game about kids controlling small robots, and once again it feels like an anime adaptation despite being a game series – although the Medabots franchise did later get an anime adaptation. This one sounded quite interesting as the intro talks about a big robot race that is happening, certainly makes a change from battling robots.

Of course, the first thing you do is battle robots. One of the modes in the game is a 1-v-1 battle in a small arena. There’s no jetpack, the robots are slow and you can only fire forward, with the main difficulty actually finding your opponent due to a bad camera.

After this, you reach the main portion of the game: making your way through levels. Going fast does help, but the main thing you need to do is collect points by destroying enemies and blowing up random objects. You move through a maze pushing buttons to progress. Your score isn’t shown and the game doesn’t give you many clues as to the best way to progress – the first time you try you’ll get a useless tutorial.

The big problem is, you need to get a surprisingly high score to reach another level. I thought I was doing really well after a few attempts when an object I needed to push a button just simply didn’t spawn, meaning that I had to quit and start again. The game wasn’t worth doing that.

Poor

And Medabots is every bit as craptacular as we expected. Normally it would be be going straight back to the shop, but all we could get in part exchanged was a crumpled Looney Tunes Game Boy box, with a blood-bogey wiped in the instruction book and no cartridge.
Marin Kitts, NGC Magazine #103

Remake or remaster?

Not much for this.

Official Ways to get the game

There’s no official way to get Medabots Infinite.