If it wasn't for the glitches, then this would be an exceptional game.
When you start the game you can choose to do either arcade or competition mode. In Arcade mode their are eight different battles modes: Annihilator, Head-to-Head, Sumo, Football, Endurance, Capture the Flag, Mad Bomber, and Collateral Damage. Once you have chosen your battle mode, you can then choose your robot. The Game features star robots from the TV Show like Razer, Chaos 2, Hypno-Disc, and Tornado, as well as many pre-built robots, however you're better off choosing the real-life robots if you intend to win. You can then choose your Arena: The Robot Wars TV Arena, New York City Subway Station, Japanese Rooftop, North Atlantic Aircraft Carrier, Sao Paulo Scrapyard, German Car Factory, Siberian Military Base, or the Mars Base. Now you're ready to fight. You can choose to have either 1 minute, 3 minute, or 5 minute bouts, as well whether the House Robots will be patrolling the Arena. The House Robots are very disruptive, particularly RefBot and Sir Killalot, as they will bash you out of the way and they tend to leave their CPZ's without you entering them. The Judges decision can be viewed as unfair because for example you can flip your opponent around for the entire match without immobilising them, but can lose because they gain points on style. The Armour is very ineffective on most robots, once one piece has come off, it will all come off.
In Competition Mode, you can choose to either by a prebuilt robot with your Credits, or make your own. At the beginning the parts for robots are very limited, but you unlock more as your progress. Their are eight stages. The first one has three tournaments on different arenas. In each stage a new arena and tournament is added, and you then unlock that arena in arcade mode, as well as several new robots and robot parts. Each Tournament ranges from two to five rounds, and you must win all of them to win the tournaments. Once the stage is complete, you have the opportunity to fight the arena champion for the arena. Certain tournaments have different restrictions about price, weapon type, and weight. Once all stages are complete, you then do the final stage; an Endurance event where you fight six competitor robots from the TV Show and one House Robot. When all are defeated, you win a 'special prize'. Nothing appears to change, but chances are that te prize is to play as the House Robots.
All of this is a mix of fun and frustration, but at times it can be ruined the glitches.
For example, Robots with exposed wheels or other extremities like Wheely Big Cheese tend to go straight through the arena wall, thus eliminating you from the bout. Pussycat has various control problems and would either break down, lose all its Armour by itself or drive out of control and drive straight out of the arena. Firestorm and Plunderbird are several times faster than their real-life counterparts and are extremely difficult to control. In the robot store, the only flippers available are ones that are attached at the front of the robot, rather than traditionally resting on top, they rarely work, and when they do, they're at least 5 times as powerful as they should be. Robots have a tendency to go straight through each other without sustaining damage, and their is generally a lot of lag.
Their are some improvements from the previous game, since it is newer, robots like Thermidor II, 101, Wheely Big Cheese, Suicidal Tendencies and RefBot are included. RefBot is very annoying, he gets in the way and rams into you when putting out a fire or counting out a robot nearby you.
Weapons to choose from are of a mixed quality, some are hopless, and others are fantastic. I need not remind you of the Flippers. Axes, Hammers, and Maces rest vertically, instead of on the top of the robot, making them useless as self-righting mechanisms. Flywheels take ages to get up to speed, and get stopped dead in their tracks by the weakest robots, Claws and Pincers can barely grip anything, and spikes, lances and drills are extremely ineffective. The best weapons are the electrical ones e.g. Torch Cutters and Vampires, and they can rip the armour to shreds and burn the batteries out of your opponents
Robot Wars: Extreme Destruction is a good blend of pure fun and frustration, and can keep you immersed for years, literally. But if it wasn't for the glitches, then this would be an exceptional game.