One-hundred-foot-robot-golf. What an amazing sounding concept. Golf?
Good! Giant robots? Good! Together? Should be a ton of fun. Instead of two
great tastes that taste great together, however, 100ft Robot Golf is shockingly
boring and the novelty of the awesome concept wears off almost immediately once
you start actually playing. Talk about a massive disappointment. See all of the
details here in our full 100ft Robot Golf PS4 review.
Game Details
- Publisher: No Goblin
- Developer: No Goblin
- ESRB Rating: “E10” for Everyone 10+
- Genre: Golf
- Pros: Awesome concept; each robot is unique
- Cons: Terrible gameplay; awful humor; novelty wears off extremely quickly
- MSRP: $20
100ft Robot Golf is a game about giant (well, decently
large) robots playing golf. Because they are, in fact, decently large robots,
the golf courses had to be scaled up accordingly. Holes are thousands of yards
long and have you hitting into fairways smack dab in the middle of cities or
even moon bases. If a building or bridge or other obstacle is in your way, you
can just destroy it with your decently large robot to give yourself a clear
shot. It is a funny and genuinely clever concept that should be awesome. But it
really, really isn’t.
Destroying buildings by swinging your club around or using
frickin’ lasers, among other abilities, is really neat at first, but the
novelty wears off after the first hole. The problem is that the actual golf
gameplay is just really, really bad. It isn’t fun. It doesn’t control well. The
courses are not well designed. 100ft Robot Golf is a terrible golf game.
It is a shame it isn’t more fun to play because there are a
few really smart things going on here. Each of the selectable robots has unique
weapons and abilities, and even slightly different gameplay (some require more
button presses to hit the ball, for example), which give the game a bit of
variety and really play up the giant robot-ness of everything. The robot
designs are also pretty cool with some obvious references to other famous
robots like Voltron, Evangelion, and Gurren Lagann. The robot fan in me is
pretty satisfied with 100ft Robot Golf. Too bad the golf fan in me is utterly
disappointed.
Presentation-wise 100ft Robot Golf is fairly decent. The
robots look great and the sense of destruction is pretty satisfying. I’m not as
big of a fan of the sound, however, as the near constant “funny” commentary
from the McElroy Brothers runs out of steam almost as quickly as the gameplay.
The game does have a VR mode for PSVR owners, but I don’t have one so I
couldn’t try it out.
All in all, 100ft Robot Golf is a game that I love on paper
but the actual execution leaves a lot to be desired. Its giant robots are
honestly pretty good, but the golf aspect is fairly awful and sucks all of the
fun out of the experience almost as soon as you begin. The $20 price tag is
asking way too much, too. The game does offer multiplayer where everyone is
running around destroying stuff at the same time, but the core golf gameplay is
still poor and no fun so multiplayer doesn’t add much. Skip it.
