Well, RA2 is better anyway 
I'd rather say the opposite. In my opinion, the two Robot Wars official games are better than Robot Arena 2: Design & Destroy. Mainly because they are also moddable, and the house robots are included.
What have you been smoking/drinking/absorbing to think either of the main Robot Wars games are better than Robot Arena 2?
*The RW games were made in-house at a studio owned by the BBC, so that's already not a good sign. It's also the same studio that put out that
awful Little Britain game a few years later.
*The physics engine for both RW games are awful. Everything bounces about without any regard for realism or common sense. The robots in Robot Arena 1 may have moved like slabs of concrete, but at least they didn't bounce like they were made out of rubber.
*The house robots are a pain the arse. In ED especially, they just do whatever they like half of the time. You could have the best robot in the game and still get ****ed over because Killalot decided to push you into the pit for no reason.
*Self-righting is bugged so that only specific weapons on specific chassis will work. If you have anything that's not a wedge or an invertable box, you're in for a rough time when you get flipped over. House robots and a lot of replicas automatically right themselves without doing anything and it looks dumb.
*Speaking of replicas, half of them look off. Look at WBC, Tornado and Razer if you don't believe me.
*Robot customisation is extremely limited compared to RA2. Good luck building a wedge robot that can run either way up in the RW games.
*JP won't shut the hell up unless you completely mute him.
*There are
way more custom items made by the communty for Robot Arena 2 than for the RW games put together. In fact, are there any Robot Wars game mods that aren't just slight tweeks to the code?
The only thing that the RW games have over RA2 is that they can have more robots in a battle than RA2 can.
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