Players take on the role of a robot "manager." Starting with a basic model, they're supposed to fight their way up through the underground fighting circuit until they win their spot on the WRB circuit. A pretty standard setup, except for one thing: the player is expected to invest their own money in order to accomplish the task. At the beginning of the game the player is assigned a robot with basic parts, and tasked with improving it until it's good enough to take the title. This premise would be fair enough, if everything in the game wasn't incredibly expensive, and all the matches didn't offer such paltry rewards.

Of course, requiring players to grind for hours on end for even small improvements in gameplay isn't an accident. Like extortionists, the developers have created a situation that's incredibly uncomfortable unless they're paid additional money.


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Can't afford any parts for a robot? For six real dollars, the game will add a million virtual dollars to the player's account. Robot parts can also be bought piecemeal (although why would anyone?) for 2-3 dollars each. For players who want to skip the whole "building and leveling up" portion of the game, the developers offer pre-made robots, all for the bargain price of TEN DOLLARS EACH. I say "bargain" because buying the individual parts that make up those robots can run over 20!

If Real Steel actually was free-to-play, I suppose many of these problems could be overlooked. At least when not money is required up front, players go in fully understanding that they're going to have to choose between endless grinding or ponying up cash to keep the game moving forwards. However, Real Steel doesn't warn players that it's just a mechanism to extract ever-increasing amounts of money from them. By keeping everything good about the game locked away until players cough up the dough, Real Steel can be dismissed as terrible. In a more just universe, it would be the subject of a class-action lawsuit rather than merely a scathing review. Rating: 1.5 out of 10.

Parents: According to the ESRB, this game contains fantasy violence. It's just as harmless as the film, with the only violence being robot-on-robot. Like in the film, the consequences of giant robot heads flying into the audience goes unexplored. There is no other questionable content, unless you consider children being taken in by a confidence game questionable. But hey, maybe learning how easily their money can be stolen will be a good lesson to learn. If I'd learned it years ago I wouldn't be out ten dollars now, for example.

January is typically a really bad month for the home market, and it is usually even worse for Blu-ray. Not only are there not many hits coming out, but those that are being released tend to be films that are better suited to DVD than Blu-ray (middling hits, dramas, etc.). This is certainly the case with this week's new releases. Leading the way on the Blu-ray sales chart was Ides of March, a political drama, with 116,000 units / $2.08 million. Its opening Blu-ray share was 39%, which is better than expected for the genre. More...Contest: Get Real: Winning AnnouncementJanuary 25th, 2012

The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn remained on top of the international chart during its second weekend of release, while it crossed the $100 million milestone over the weekend. It expanded into more than two dozen new markets, but most were of the smaller variety. Overall, it made $38.98 million on 7,103 screens in 45 markets, for a total of $123.55 million so far. Russia was the only real exception, where it opened in second place with $4.81 million on 788 screens. It plummeted 74% in France, but still added $6.99 million on 850 screens for a two-week total of $33.44 million. On the other hand, it remained in first place in Spain with $5.19 million on 819 screens over the weekend, for a total of $16.62 million after two. At this point, $200 million internationally is a given, which is likely close to the film's total budget. If it can close close to that figure here, it will break even before the lucrative home market. More...International Box Office: Christmas Comes EarlyNovember 3rd, 2011

Puss in Boots was pushed up a week and will likely dominate the pre-Halloween weekend with last weekend's winner, Paranormal Activity 3, coming in a distant second. There are a couple of other new wide releases, In Time and The Rum Diary, but neither are generating a lot of buzz. There is some good news, as this weekend last year was a real disappointment and there's a chance both Puss in Boots and Paranormal Activity 3 will earn more than last year's number one film, Saw VII. Hopefully October can end on a high note, because it's been a bad month so far. More...International Box Office: Paranormal InactivityOctober 26th, 2011

This past weekend was one the industry would love to forget. It was one of the worst weekend of the entire year. The total box office haul was just $88 million, which was 7.5% lower than last weekend and an absolute stunning 33% lower than the same weekend last year. A year-over-year discrepancy like that usually only occurs when there's a misalignment in the calendar. (Summer starting a week later than it did the year before. A major holiday falling a week later than it did the year before. Halloween or Christmas Day landing on the weekend.) It was so bad, that the top five films this year barely made more than Jackass 3D opened with last year. Footloose was the only new release that made any real impact, but it wasn't enough to overtake Real Steel on top of the chart. Meanwhile, 2011 lost more ground to 2010 and it is now down by 4% at $8.23 billion to $8.56 billion. If we are to see a recovery, it will have to happen really fast. More...Weekend Estimates: Footloose Reboot Tripped by SteelOctober 16th, 2011

Firstly, I would like to apologize for the Footloose / Footlose pun in the title. It is unacceptable, even by my standards. Secondly, we are going to lose. This weekend last year Jackass 3D broke the record for biggest October weekend and there's no chance that feat will be replicated this weekend. In fact, there's almost no chance this weekend will match Red's opening last year. Footloose, The Thing, and The Big Year won't earn $50 million over the weekend combined. We really need the win, but all evidence points to a tough loss in the year-over-year comparison. More...International Box Office: Johnny and Steel Go the DistanceOctober 13th, 2011

There is a little bit of good news going into October, as September did help close the year-to-date deficit, even if it was by a small amount. Unfortunately, we really needed a better result to be optimistic about our chances of closing that gap entirely by the end of the year. Even worse, this month represents the last chance 2011 has to catch up to 2010. I know there are two additional months left in the year, but October of 2010 was a soft month with four of the five weekends showing year-over-year declines. If October 2011 is even weaker, the odds of making up the $300 million deficit will be all but gone. It becomes even more troubling that there are no movies opening in October that are guaranteed to be monster hits. So, while October of 2010 was weak compared to October of 2009, it looks like it will be stronger than October of 2011. Hopefully I'm just being pessimistic. There are a couple films that have a shot at $100 million and I will be surprised if none of them at least come close to that milestone, but the slate of films is weaker than I would like. More...Contest: Reel StealSeptember 30th, 2011 ff782bc1db

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