51/100
Players19 ratings: 60/100
Critics2 reviews

Where to get it

Steam

2003 · First-person shooter · Racing

Chrome

You play as Logan, a surly space-faring mercenary in this first-person shooter. Travel from planet to planet working for the highest paying corporation. You not only travel on foot, you can man a variety of different vehicles on the land, air and sea. Chrome adds a neat spin on the first-person shooter realm with features such as an inventory system, cybernetic implants that enhance your abilities and an engaging and cinematic storyline.

Released: 28 October 2003
Platforms: Windows
Genres: First-person shooter Racing Science Shooter
Developers: —
Publishers: Strategy First
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action Science fiction
Engine: Chrome Engine
Country: Poland
Age ratings: ESRB M PEGI 16

About

Chrome is a 2003 first-person shooter video game developed by Techland and published by Gathering in Europe and Strategy First in North America. It was re-released with additional levels in 2004 as Advanced Battlegrounds: The Future of Combat (in some countries called Chrome: Gold Edition). A prequel, Chrome SpecForce, was released in 2005. In March 2006, Techland announced a sequel, which would feature the latest version of the Chrome Engine, but was reported to be "on hold" soon after.

Keywords

futuristic
digital distribution
sniping
useable vehicles
betrayal
gamersgate
weapons swap
camera shift

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Story

Chrome takes place in the final years of the 22nd century, and opens with partners Bolt Logan and Ron "Pointer" Hertz, former special forces members turned freelancers, engaging on a routine mission to the planet Zorg to retrieve corporate blueprints that have been stolen by an unknown party. During the mission, Pointer betrays Logan. Logan meets up with another freelancer named Carrie and the two of them team up.

One year later, Logan and Carrie have become business partners. Their initial mission is on behalf of the mining corporation SPACON, battling a group of pirates that have been hijacking SPACON transport ships and have also kidnapped a nanotechnology scientist.

Reception

Chrome is known as the first action game developed in Poland to get a major international release and receive "mixed or average" reviews beyond the country's borders, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.