COMBAT CREATURES STRYDER

Strutting loudly across the office like a miniature Monkeylord (if this confuses you, go and play Supreme Commander immediately), the Stryder patrols its territory, fending off trespassers with a flurry of darts. It’s all rather impressive; you can tilt the weapon up and down, and swivel the body independently from the legs, meaning no direction or angle is safe. There’s nothing tame about the weaponry either – the darts travel around 30 feet, meaning they come out of the weapon at a fair old lick. You can also duel if you have two of them, with the first robot to sustain three hits automatically powering down. Of course, it’s around five minutes of fun, and then ten minutes of trying to find where all the darts went. Maybe someone should invent a dartgathering robot next.