- Unique control system where where you directly control a Minebot with your mouse to dodge enemies and attack. Thus your mouse cursor itself has to avoid touching enemies and enemy fire, while you use your mouse buttons to attack.
- Drop mines, fire homing shots, and release powerful point-blank blasts to destroy your enemies.
- Earn cash and use it to buy upgrades and special attacks for your Minebot, or save it up to buy extra lives or points.
- Fight enemies that each have their own unique defenses, attacks, and AI and can interact with other enemies to protect each other.
- Intense boss fights that require both reflexes and sharp thinking to beat.
- Online global high score lists viewable in the game or from this web site.
- Multiple game modes, some with their own seperate high score list.
- The entire game is only 1 executable file that's less than 5MB in size and does not require installation.
- Low system requirements and alt-tab friendly.
- Its Free!!
Requirements:
Minebot Arena has the following minimum requirements:- Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
- 400MHz or faster processor (1GHz recommended)
- 32MB RAM (128MB recommended)
- Direct X compatible video card with 8MB of Video RAM
- Direct X compatible sound card
- 5MB hard drive space
- Submitting and viewing high scores requires an active internet connection.
NOTE: You must unzip the game executable and move it to your desktop or a valid normal folder in order to play! Only the main Minebot.exe is needed to play, other files in the .zip archive are optional.
Testimonials:
Here are some comments players have made about Minebot Arena:
"This is probably the best game I've ever played." - archonwarp
"Two thumbs way up!" - Kickback
"Amazingly fun" - Talka
"Adictive Genius. This game is crazy fun." - Yakuza
"Game: A+" - Ludious
"It's too addicting and well thought out to unleash on someone that isn't aware of what they are getting into when they start playing it." - torgodevil
"This has alot of what makes me love games like Ikaruga. Simple concepts that weave together into subtly complex gameplay experiences." - Drake
"Might be one of my new favourite games..." - Zell
"This game is hella fun, and the levels past 40 are delightfully hard." - Talith
"I swear to god this is the best game on the showcase. Great job!" - poita
"Very good stuff. Great sense of progression and enough variety/strategy in every level to make you want to keep playing." - drastik
"This is one of the best games (commercial and non-commercial) that I have played in a long time." - crazy_gaz_2001
"Oh yeah, this is really cool. It's got more gameplay than most 'big' titles have." - Drake
"I'm a horrible, evil, cynical bastard, but even I can't rag on this game. It's probably the best free game I've ever played." - Duddits
"Inspired bit of work here! Seriously, this is so unbelievably addictive. I think it should be outlawed and put in the same class as Heroin and Crack." - Tom Klapiscak
"This game is all the awesome it sounds to be." - Kato
"This is action packed goodness." - Unholy Cow
To see what they're talking about, Download Minebot Arena and check out this fun, free game yourself!
