Mech Arena: Robot Showdowna multiplayer shooter by Plarium

Released this week on Android and iOS, Mech Arena : Robot Showdown is a surprise. Indeed, this multiplayer shooter on mobile is made by the famous studio Plarium Games behind the title Raid: Shadow Legends. Let's go over the specifics of this new shooter with MECHAs.

Rich content for Mech Arena: Robot Showdown

On the menu at Mech Arena, Plarium features an Overwatch-like interface, plenty of content and customisable mechas with punchy casual shooter gameplay. Here is the trailer for Mech Arena.

If you like mechas, shooting and 5v5 multiplayer, this game already offers a very rich content despite its recent release and I can only advise you to give it a chance. In figures, Mech Arena, it gives :

• 39 weapons, from missiles to stasis guns.
• 15 mechas, each with their own special abilities to cause a lot of carnage.
• 2 weapon slots per mecha to vary shooting and strategies.
• 22 launchmaps, which is pretty huge, with a reduced surface area to increase the presence of group battles in the games.

This variety of launch content is reassuring for those thinking of investing in a new mobile multiplayer shooter. Especially since these arena maps will be your only playground. Most multiplayer games are a bit repetitive and become even more annoying when you keep coming across the same 4 maps and only the players change.

Competition and rhythmic gameplay

Mech Arena wishes above all to position itself as a competitive game that stands out from the BR games and other served and cooled formulas of recent years. The developers' proposal sounds good. However, only time will tell if they have kept their promises.

According to them, the game offers a balanced sorting of clashes based on the player's performance rather than their stuff. This idea is rooted in its matchmaking system. In this case, an F2P player with skill could largely take on a lesser Pay-to-win player. At least, on paper.

In Mech Arena, the battles are short but tactically packed with limited maps to avoid wasting time wandering around doing nothing. The promise of the game is that it will take you from the launch menu to the start of the game, through all the menus and matchmaking, in a record time of 30 seconds. In this way, the mobile medium could offer a fast-paced and different experience to a classic multiplayer shooter.

Personally, as much as I tried to immerse myself in titles like War Robots, I didn't really enjoy it. Perhaps I spent too little time on it. But the controls felt flabby, the interface rather ugly and the combat rather bland. On closer inspection, Mech Arena: Robot Showdown might just be the key to my iron heart. I'd like to finally enjoy a bit ofrobot combat on mobile, with gameplay worthy of the name. I hope Plarium's new game can match the quality and quantity of weapons and customisation options that a collection system like War Robots can afford.

In conclusion, this is for fans of mecha customisation ( Mothergunship owners, I see you) and fast-paced action who don't mind the frustration of a team of broken arms. You have a new game to try.