Shoot Many Robots (SMR) is easily one of the best multiplayer XBLA titles. It is equally one of the most repetitive single player ones. However, its success as a multiplayer game is enough to shadow the often rough single player experience. It is simply a game meant to be enjoyed with other people, but has the option to be played alone. The game itself has functionally sound controls, the art is wonderfully apropos for the subject matter, and the premise is perfectly ridiculous and appropriately unsupported by any story. All of these things come together to form a proper essence of what a perfect mix of Metal Slug and Contra could be.

In SMR, your sweet, sweet baby RV gets humped by an overgrown dog-like robot. But it wasn’t alone, there were other, smaller robots, all accomplices. So, you do the only reasonable thing, set out to shoot all the robots. This is the premise of SMR, and it doesn’t really need anything more to justify the rest of the game. In fact, it probably wouldn’t be as good if it there was.
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