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If you change your mind and want to do something different to what already has been done, you might want to do "Robot Round Up" inspired by this somewhat unknown C64 game:

 

Buffalo Round Up: http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/buffalo-round-up

 

I'm thinking mazes quite alike those in Berzerk, but with one proper exit and then some backdoors for robots to sneak out. Instead of you or them shooting at eachother, you should try to make them form a herd and push them out of the room. Some will drift off through backdoors, and you get points for how many robots you successfully pushed out of the room. Different rooms can have different arrangements of walls and barriers. Perhaps you could even make a two player mode with one exit each so it is a robot push combat.

 

Just thinking out aloud, but I believe that could be an interesting game with as much variation as you want to. Perhaps some robots need to be rotated in order to move in the right direction, and otherwise would just block the way as they refuse to move backwards. Only your imagination (and some technical matters) is the limit.

I was playing some SWTOR last night (Star Wars World of Warcraft, pretty much), and I realized that a lot of these explore-the-room-and-kill-all-the-things games I am playing lately are basically 3D, high resolution, Berzerk or Venture.