Decided to ditch the snails, coz they seemed like they belonged in some lame casual gaming kind of scenario...
now i'm taking a robot idea... based on the two robot sketches i had posted earlier. this robot is going to be a speedy racing machine... its also going to have offroad capabilities... so basically a quad bike merged with a humanoid robot

now thats a game character that sounds like it belongs in my kind of game.
anyway heres my initial rough model