From time to time you get a game that is named in such a way that it perfectly encapsulates what the player will be doing. Shoot Many Robots is one of those games. As seen in the trailer above, this side-scrolling action game has you blasting up copious amounts of robots on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
Calling it a side-scrolling action game isn’t good enough for Ubisoft. A press release sent out today contains a description screaming for a comma: it’s “a four-player co-op run-n-gun side-scrolling RPG shooter filled with tons of weapon and item customization.” Besides a traditional side-scrolling mode, there will also be a Survival mode where you have to fight waves of enemies, Horde mode-style.
If it looks and sounds a bit like Borderlands (cartoony graphics, lots of guns), that could be because developer Demiurge Studios helped to create that game’s Arena mode. It’s also worked on a number of other titles since being established in 2002; it ported Mass Effect to PC and developed the Pinnacle Station DLC, helped to create BioShock‘s opening sequences prior to entering Rapture, and more.
