It’s neither cute and cuddly, nor slick and stealthy. Robbery Bob 2 is, frankly, a little bit ugly. It’s by no means a game breaker, but it’s safe to say you never truly feel like you’re in complete control of his movements.Įqually grating is the game’s look. Using virtual buttons and a thumbstick, it’s a fairly common occurrence to find yourself setting off alarms and getting spotted because Bob has decided to take a couple of steps in any direction seemingly of his own accord.
It’s because of this, however, that the game’s two mistakes are all the more jarring.įirstly, the game’s controls feel a little loose. It’s stealth at its most pure, and taps into the kind of tactics players would be more used to employing in classics like Metal Gear Solid. However, for those who want all three stars in each and every stage, Robbery Bob 2 is an entirely different beast – one of slow movements, tactical sprints, and tracking people’s movements. There are also a whole host of objects you can pay out for via the game’s shop too that make the game a little easier, and often more entertaining: though you should be able to make it to the end undetected if you’re clever enough, there’s an undoubted appeal to letting off a clockwork mouse in order to distract your nearest foe so you can slip on by, for instance. Robbery Bob 2 is one of those games where, if you so choose, you can blitz through it, setting off every alarm and alerting every security guard in each stage if you see fit, as long as you pick up the target object in each level and make it to the exit. That’s if you want to get a perfect score in each stage, of course. Do you need to distract a guard? What will happen if you slam open that door? Is it really worth putting yourself in danger to pick up one extra item? Each room in the building has to be taken one at a time, with there basically being only one way of making it through without being spotted while also picking up the trinkets dotted around each stage – it’s a question of working out just what that way is.
It’s much akin to attempting to navigate your way around a maze. Doing the latter tends to make a lot of noise so has to be used sparingly and, for the most part, successful attempts are a case of tracking the movements of your foe and slipping by unnoticed. Viewed from above, Bob basically has two tools in his arsenal the ability to creep very slowly and quietly, and the ability to run rather fast in short bursts.
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Yes, it’s a somewhat convoluted set up, but in the broad scheme of things it’s really not all that important.Īll you need to know is, there are a series of 2D stages you have to sneak around, picking up objects without being spotted and making it out of whatever building you’re asked to infiltrate within a short amount of time. As such, Bob then attempts to sneak into building after building, attempting to replace all the items he damaged in his wedding crash. The premise of Robbery Bob 2, therefore, is his attempts to make amends, fearful of getting on the wrong side of the bride’s father, who is one of the city’s most feared mobsters. After being broken out of jail in the original release, Bob is on the run in this sequel, with the game opening as he tries to escape the clutches of the law by crashing a wedding, quite literally. The story behind it is a little strange, however. In fact, the only person who ever comes to harm is Bob himself, repeatedly thumped with a variety of different instruments by his assailants whenever he’s discovered.
In Chillingo’s latest, however, it’s case of simply slipping by unnoticed if you can. This is despite decades of stealth games teaching us that the most straightforward path to success is to creep up behind the person you want to bypass and relieve them of their life. Luckily – for the OAPs at least – Robbery Bob 2 gives you no such ability to kill or even injure any of your supposed targets. If we handed out awards for making you feel like a bad person, Robbery Bob 2 would most definitely be in the running. What makes it even worse is, in the vast majority of cases it’s the neck of an OAP that’ll you’ll be desperate to break in two. There are times aplenty during Robbery Bob 2 where you’ll just want to snap someone’s neck.
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