Metal Marines (1994)
Genres:Strategy, Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Themes:Warfare, Science fiction
Game modes:Single player
Story:Metal Marines is an isometric strategy game. Controlling one side of a conflict, the player must wage a campaign across several islands to defeat Zorgeuf and his lieutenants. The player controls logistics of the base to ensure that there are the necessary assets to wage war. On each map, the player places three underground command bases, if all of these are destroyed the battle is lost. The player must manage the resources of their money to construct new buildings or upgrade existing facilities on the map. Different buildings include Energy Plants, Factories, Economic Centers, Radar systems, Anti-Aircraft missiles, fake buildings and fake HQ bases, mine fields, gun pods, missile launchers, metal marine hangers and even ICBMs. At any time, the player may order an attack and choose which assets to fire at the opponent. Missiles, Metal Marines carriers and ICBMs all use different levels of fuel. Metal Marines once deployed in an area will automatically fire rifles at nearby targets or engage even closer targets in melee attacks. Gunpods, while stationary, will also fire on nearby enemies. Metal Marines are largely autonomous but can be manually controlled to a minor degree (directional) by the player.Show more
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I still keep an old Windows laptop around to play the Gold version of this Windows game. Anime inspired cut scenes and music really help drive the story along. I loved being able to design my own offensive and defensive layouts on each island level, and overcoming enemy defenses felt like a puzzle to figure out. Being able to drag and drop units, drag and drop missiles and mechs to attack made it fun to see your attacks fly over your desktop. Yes, your desktop, as the game opened each island and menu on your desktop in smaller windows. I would have loved to see some of these ideas transfered into modern games, but perhaps it was just unfairly overlooked?
Loved this game. Played both the Windows and SNES versions of it. On Windows it was awesome how the islands were on separate windows and the missiles would fly over your desktop (Hope I'm remembering correctly ;D it's been a long time. Still own the CD version. Loved the extra applications that came with it that showed the specs of the robots.
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