WHEN I first received Wild Metal Country for review I thought I was looking at a bizarre new music CD. Images of Dolly Parton playing Thrash Metal crossed my mind. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case.
Wild Metal Country is first and foremost a futurist tank combat game. There is no resource management, career play, or mission planning. Basically you land, drive around, shoot-up whatever moves, and pick up power cores. Like BattleZone, it is really designed for multi-player fun, with different people taking on the roles of various mercenary groups.
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One thousand years ago the human population of the three-planet Tehric system were involved in a horrific war. They developed super machines to defend the vital power cores, which supplied inexhaustible power.
Unfortunately the machines quickly interpreted their orders as meaning that all organic beings were targets. Before long both sides in the war had been wiped out by the machines.
One thousand years later new satellite imaging has shown that the power cores have survived. The injunction against landing on the planets has been lifted.
It has been discovered that the machine combat units of the former army have grown increasingly savage in the 1000 years of their isolation.
Wild Metal Country (PC CD) (U Wish Games)
Roaming the barren planets, the machines have evolved to fill the evolutionary roles left vacant by the now extinct animals of the system. The machines still have the programmed imperative to defend the power cores; to the very last machine if necessary.
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A full-scale army assault was launched to recover the power cores, but it failed completely, being utterly destroyed by the machines.
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It has now been decided that the only chance is for a small unit to hunt down the machines and recover the power cores one at a time.
This is where you come in. As a small-scale mercenary hunter you will be landed on the planets of the Tehric system, and will be well paid for each power core you recover. Of course you’ll have to battle it out with the machines, and with rival mercenary groups, but that’s what they pay you for.
There are lots of different tanks to try out in Wild Metal Country, including the basic Rhino, low-slung Manta, fast Cheetah, and the anti-gravity Roadrunner.
Weapons include the Standard shell which is the basic turret shell, the Bouncer, which bounces off terrain and objects and explodes when it hits a target, the Sprinkler, which scatters a spray of small shells, the Sniffer, which is a terrain-hugging homing missile, the massive Big Bang, which is an extremely dense bomb which causes damage in a large blast radius, and the Magnatron, which exerts a strong magnetic pull on any metal objects it travels close to. This can be used to turn over enemy vehicles.
There are also mines you can use, with varying effects, including the odd Jumping Jack, which jumps towards the nearest vehicle.
The graphics are okay in Wild Metal Country, especially with a 3D card. The terrain is rolling, with nice haze and weather effects. The enemy machines look quite nasty, and when the screen is filled with machines, explosions, and so on, it does look quite impressive.
Wild Metal Country is Gremlin and costs $100 (including gst). It requires a Pentium 166-megahertz processor, 32 megabytes of Ram, and quad-speed CD-Rom drive. It recommends a Pentium 233MHz processor or Pentium II, and 3D graphics card. You can play multi-player via network, modem, or the Internet.
Wild Metal Country is a fun multi-player combat game. It wouldn’t be much fun playing solo for very long, but if you can organise a group to get together, either over the Internet or a network, you’ll soon be involved in fast and furious shoot-em-up fun.
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