Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness, is a fighting game developed and published by Capcom in 1995. It is a spin-off of the beat’em up game Armored Warriors. Cyberbots was ported to the Sega Saturn and the PlayStation. The game only saw limited distribution in arcades outside Japan. With the exception of the untranslated PlayStation Network release, none of the console ports were released overseas. On February 20, 2022, it was announced that Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness will be ported as a part of Capcom Fighting Collection on June 24, 2022 to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
The premise in Cyberbots is similar to Armored Warriors, albeit it features a maximum of two playable characters on screen as opposed to three. Similar to the Armored Core series, different legs (which affect movement abilities), arms (which affect reach and melee capabilities) and weapons can be mixed and matched between the selectable robots available to the player. Gameplay in Cyberbots is similar to other Capcom-created fighting games, with a medium-sized command list of executing various attacks available to each individual robot. Battles are a duel-formatted affair with players and the computer fighting against one another to proceed to the next battle.
Each robot also has a gauge which is charged with energy every time it hits an opponent or the attack buttons are pressed simultaneously. Once the gauge is fully charged, the player can execute a “super special”.
In the game the player first chooses the pilot and then the mecha (Valiant/Variant Armor or VA for short) they’ll use to fight. The mechas determine the gameplay of the game, but the pilot is what determines the storyline the player will see. Near the end of the 21st century Earth begins to become over populated leading to many people living in man made space colonies. The primary army of Earth, “Earth Force”, has been conducting experiments and their work, along with the actions of the playable characters will determine the future of Earth.