Slightly below average rules created for humorous effect. Maybe it's me, but I just don't get the joke. The rules are just complicated enough so that my kids have a problem with them. Likewise, the rules aren't sophisticated enough to keep the interest of any of my adult friends. The "fold-up" robots described are simple silhouettes on BOTH sides of the stand up, so, alas, I can't even use them for another game. I really wanted to like this game, but, there's just nothing here to make me want to play it again. I gave this product a 3-star rating, but only because it's so inexpensive. Maybe someone else will like this style of game, but I know it's not for me.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: The rules have some good jokes, so it's an entertaining read, even if the rules are a bit difficult to understand.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: This game just falls into the gap of being too difficult for a funny game and too simple for a thought-provoking game.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Disappointing<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Disappointed<br>

The bigger, the better. Robots battling it out, what more could you want!? Great game and loads of fun. Enjoy the ride. <br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: All of it.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: None.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

A simplified BattleTech with giant robot animals. Rules are decent enough, if nothing special, but the writing is irritating; it's more concerned with humour than clarity. Cheap fun.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Disappointing<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

This game was both a bit too goofy and simple for my tastes, but then what can one expect for the small price.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

What can you say? Generic Battletech. Nice little package, fun little game, good price. The rules would benefit from someone reading the rules before publication and just telling the author, "That's really not as funy as you think it is. Can you just tell them what the rules are?" The foldover miniatures are minimal, but are all you really need. If you need true miniatures, raid your game chest. Any of them should do. This game is not a bad toy to fiddle with on a rainy day. Once again from Team Frog we get a light take on a familiar game (which is all they intended, so I'd say they were successful). I think it's a fair bargain for the price.

Wonderful. I especially liked the backstory.

Looking forward to the rest of the "Big Damn" series.

The rules are great! Very creative and unchanged from the older print version, as near as I can tell.

The page layout leave much to be desired. The original book was printed as four 5x8 pages printed per physical 8.5x11 landscape page and saddle-stapled. This layout has one single 5x8 page centered in one 8.5x11 portrait page. Very wasteful of paper to print.

The fold-ups are nice to have but the artwork is a major disappointment being limited to black silhouettes.

Big Damn Robots is a humorous, fun game that includes everything to play except the dice and scenery. Personally I sometimes found the humour to be a bit over the top and unnecessary. This game comes with about 2 pages of comical background and fluff that you may want to ignore. The problem is the mechanics and systems of the game carry on in the same theme. Construction system sizes of ?teeny weeny? & ?jumbo shrimp? and weapons like ?Pop gun? & ?Big Damn Bomb Launcher? make it hard to take the game seriously.

However the game is easy and fun. It comes with card playing pieces, although they are only of the silhouette type, and lots of ideas on how to play the game on the cheap. (Boxes for scenery etc.)

I suppose the important thing is how the game plays and this is where they have been fully successful. There are only a few tables to look up and the rest can be tracked on the Robot sheets. It is detailed enough that you still feel the anxiety as your robots get whittled down to their component pieces and the triumph as you ultimately destroy your opponent?s last Bot. There are also a few scenario ideas to keep the games varied. It is possible also, with a bit of thought (and renaming), to get a serious war-game from the rules, even though it wasn?t designed that way.

If you like funny games with ludicrous names and background I give it 5 stars. If you like serious games with technical or realistic fluff I would say only 3 stars. Either way I found it value for money.

Monster Robots in a quick format for play. Good job streamlining a complex topic.

This is a solid playable game that is exactly what it says it is. it's fast and fun and really easy to teach.