Like the original, Project Phantasma puts you at the helm of a one-robot army in which you run missions to earn cash that will enable you to upgrade your huge mechanized buddy. You'll run through hostile territories, blowing up generators, structures, tanks, other robots ? you name it. There are 17 missions in all, and to be quite frank, they're not easy.
There's a lot of management involved when you want to build a better robot. Not only do you have to have the cash to buy the items (legs for speed, head for targeting, arms for close-attacks, torso for guns, etc.), but you'll also need to make sure your on-board generator can handle the load of the new parts. If it can't cut it, you'll need to spend the dough on a better one, or make do with the old parts you had.
And like the original, the game also has both a split-screen and link-cable two-player mode, where gamers can see which robot truly has the right stuff.