Most people love giant robots and kaiju, and a good deal of this appeal comes from the fighting. It’s awesome and awe-inspiring to see behemoths wreak havoc while regular humans look like ants. A number of games over the decades have tried to capture that essence in video game form, including classics like King of the Monsters, War of the Monsters, and more modern offerings like Override: Mech City Brawl. GigaBash is the latest game to take on the kaiju fighting genre, and while it has the mechanical chops to get it right, it remains limited in scope.

The core gameplay closely resembles that of Power Stone 2. The game is presented in an isometric viewpoint and plays out like an arena fighter. Buildings can be destroyed to create cover for others, or you can climb on them to get a better vantage point for the next attack. They can also be thrown, and the same goes for a bevy of other objects, and each has its own throwing distance determined by a visible arc. A piece of rubble may be thrown straight, but a large hamburger might be shot out at an arc. There are even army vehicles that can be used as weapons, like a tank acting as a machine gun before being chucked at foes.

While this may suggest that GigaBash is a simple fighting game, the mechanics suggest otherwise. You have both a basic and special attack, both of which can be charged up to deliver something more powerful and different. You can block, but you can also grab someone who’s blocking to punch them up close,…