1999 · Port · DMA Design · Strategy

Wild Metal

Sega console exclusivePort

Wild Metal is a 3D strategic vehicular combat game set in a distant land, in which you command armed roving vehicles to disrupt dangerous automated military units that have overtaken the Tehric planetary system.

Released: 15 May 1999
Platforms: Dreamcast Windows
Genres: Strategy
Developers: DMA Design
Publishers: Rockstar Games
Themes: Action Science fiction
Age ratings: ESRB T

About

Wild Metal Country is an action video game developed by DMA Design. The game was published by Gremlin Interactive and released for Microsoft Windows in May 1999. A Dreamcast port, known as Wild Metal, was released in February 2000 by Rockstar Games, which later also re-released the Windows version.

Keywords

vehicular combat
freeware
vehicle combat
digital distribution

Media

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Gameplay

Wild Metal Country is an action game designed for single-player or multiplayer play, where the player can choose different types of tanks and fight with other tanks on different planets.

Story

The game takes place in three planets of a Theric system where machines have gone out of control. They drove out the human population and took over the planets. The humans have finally regained the strength to recover their planets. In single player, the mission is to destroy the enemy, and, more importantly, recover the stolen power cores.

In multiplayer mode, all the power cores in one of the other planets have been recovered. The team of bounty hunters that recovered them are now fighting among themselves for the loot and the credit.

Reception

Wild Metal Country and Wild Metal both received mixed reviews. Writing for games website GameSpot, Ben Stahl concluded his review of the Dreamcast version, saying that the game had potential, but felt to be boring and frustrating. Greg Orlando of NextGen reviewed the same console version, giving it three stars out of five, having a positive remark about its gameplay.