A very Hot/Cold game. Custom Robo has some very interesting gameplay ideas in it, but one really screwed up a storyline.
Story: Your this dude who is constantly at odds with money and your only real family is your landlady. So he goes out and gets a job working for these mercinaries who consist of a drill sarg. wannbe, a loser who thinks he's cool, and a socially malfunctioning girl who is the most skilled out of them all. You get a mission and when you get there a bunch of cops and costumed bad guys are just...standing there faceing each other. Occationally an officer would faint and naturally the main character is confused (as is the player. What happened to just knocking out an unarmed crook with a baton and cuffing him?) the loser of your mercinary group then try to tutor you in the ways of the Custom Robo. Apparently, even life and death situations are determined on how well you play videogames, so instead of doing the lodgical thing and punching out the real world badies why there just standing there in a trance your character goes "Duh...Okee-dokey." and picks up a Custom Robo to help. Think that's cheesy? I do. It gets worse too. Custom Robo is not for deep story lovers.
Gameplay: In contrast to the story, I really liked it. It was faced paced, you have a four player multiplayer, you can trick out your own robo, and you can shoot a ton of futuristic weapons and blow things up. There is a slight problem later about being forced upgrade to different parts for your Robo as time goes on in the story mode, but other than that it's just battle after battle after battle.
Sound: Not bad. Theres nothing real memorable about any of the music, however.
Graphics: Again, not bad. There is a real cool scene if you wait a bit in the title screen, but after that there are no real prerendered movies. Outside of the special effects in the battles, there isn't anything that you will care about. Everything else looks kind of plain outside the robos and the battles.
In the end, this game is just ballony holding up a fairly good idea for a peice of gameplay. Little kids who are still patient enough for playing games like Pokemon will probably play this out the longest, but as good as some of the battles can be this game can get dry pretty quick for the more sophisticated gamer who need things like a good storyline and hiden bonuses to stay constantly entertained.