Gotcha Force

This one here is pretty sad, because its an amazing game hold back by its shortcomings 

This is one of many robot games, some have them big, like Armored Core or Zone of the Enders, some have then small like Medabots or Little Battlers eXperience, some are piloted, some are not, but all of them have in common that you usually have a nice deal of customization.

Gotcha force does something really different, you cant modify your "Borgs" at all, but you can collect them, there's like 200 of them, many are clones but there's a very big diversity of cool designs AND movesets, not all of them play the same, there's a plethora of different borg fighting styles, and damn do they play good, the game is extremely satisfying, the movements and attacks feel incredible and its just a blast to play

By that alone I could say that by sheer gameplay this game could be a solid 10/10, but from here on it only gets worse and worse.

This game takes a lot from pokemon, mostly the "gotta catch em all" mentality, but in practice, it does none of the best parts, there's no exploration or real rpg elements, the plot is terribly dull (even for a kiddie plot), and in the end, all you do is battle, and even when the combat and controls are that tight, it gets old fast with nothing else to look for in between, the music gets REALLY repetitive too, the voice acting is god awful and you can't turn it off.

So the story mode is a no-no, so lets have a blast playing multiplayer with friends, right ? too bad you have to play the story to get new Borgs to use (and getting them mostly at random), just great.

It could have been a masterpiece, and its one of the most important games of one of the many geniuses at Capcom, Atsuhi Tomita, and even when it has many problems, its well worth a play, just leave it when it starts to get tedious, don't let the bad parts ruin an extremely fun game.

(If you manage to find it because boy this game is rare and it has one heck of a cult following)