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Gun Metal is awesome and beats halo, and all others

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 46
Date: May 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is 10x, no a 100x, no a 100000000x better than any game I can think of. This game of total destruction, and global domination is so brutally awesome. You blow people's brains, arms, legs, guts, all over with an assortment of [sweet] artillery. Literally, u can c their guts flying in the air and splatting agianst the ground. You can see the mutilated brains and other assortments of guts splattered, smashed, and dragged on the ground. [Radical] graphics, storyline, and enemies. This is the game for destruction lovers. I suggest you buy this game before there all gone!!!

GUN METAL: Action All The Way

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 26 / 28
Date: June 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Gun Metal has been one of my most anticipated XBOX games since I first caught sight of it late last year, as more screenshots and movies were released that anticipation grew even more. When it finally landed on my desk, I suddenly found my self playing one of the best games yet on the XBOX.

The story behind the game is fairly simple, the bad guys are trying to take over the world, and its your job to stop them. But instead of giving you some weedy guns to play with, your given Gun Metal, a 10 meter tall Mech which also doubles as a Jet Fighter, packed with virtually every single type of weapon there is, its one hell of a machine. Controlling the machine is easy as pie, left analog stick for moving, right analog stick for looking around, primary and secondary weapon fire on the back analog buttons, weapon selection and changing from a Mech to a Fighter done by a single press of a button.

The world you have to protect is fully organic, wildlife roam the hills and forests. Farms are fully working, fields move in the wind, cloud formation changes. Using the inbuilt hard drive anything that changes during the game, is changed for the full game. For example if a farm is destroyed in one mission, an enemy craft crashes, wildlife dies, it stays destroyed or dead when you come back to the same area on a later mission. Protection is one of the key objectives if your to succeed in saving the world. Luckily if am important area is destroyed in an earlier mission, you can retry the mission and attempt to save parts of the world you couldn't before.

Saving the world involves completing 25 missions, each with its own unique challenge. Tactics play a huge role in successfully completing a mission, one mission involved protecting three different locations that were under attack from enemy forces. Saving the first couple of bases were relatively easy, but by the time I had got to the 3rd base my ammo was limited, several attempts were unsuccessful as the base just kept getting destroyed, but after changing how I approached the base as before I was attacking one of the enemy drop ships, unfortunately I hadn't noticed an enemy bomber had already entered the base by the time I had got there. So by changing back into a Mech after flying to the 3rd base, I was able to get inside and destroy the bomber first, then attempt to defend the base from attacks by the enemies that were left.

Enemies come in many different forms, ranging from little droppers that can be destroyed just by stepping on them to massive drop ships, fighters and bombers. Missions become incredibly difficult by the different methods used by the enemies, some will provide back up to their allies, some will just go all out and attack you while others sit back and wait. Making it even more difficult they come in several waves of attack, once you think you've finally got rid of an attack, drop ships will fly in and land more troops, more fighters will fly in and attack you. Sometimes it feels like it will never end, as you fight to survive with only a few bits of ammo left.

To give you the upper hand Gun Metal comes equipped with some devastating weapons, standard machine guns, several different types of rockets, bombs and plenty of other fancy space age weaponry that any star trek fan would be proud of. Each weapon has its own uses, machine guns can easily destroy enemy fighters while more powerful weapons are needed to dispose of the larger space crafts. Run out of rockets you can carry out bombing runs to destroy the last remaining soldiers. Its action all the way, during any of the 25 missions there isn't a movement to spare, while the difficulty can be sometimes a bit too steep it always remains fun, even though you'll find yourself attempting the same mission several times before you finally find the key to success.

Gun Metal also boasts some spectacular graphics, the quality of the textures and detail is up there with Halo, in fact the graphics even surpass Halo in places as for the first time I've noticed in any video game, the sky and clouds constantly change, and small clusters of cloud form randomly over hills. The actual Gun Metal is extensively detailed, the transformation between 10 meter tall Mech and a Jet Fighter is a joy to watch. Even with this detail the graphics hardly ever falter, with only the slightest bit of slow down when battles get really heavy.

Sound doesn't disappoint either, the change over from Mech to Fighter sounds just as good as it looks. Each weapon has its own unique realistic sound effect, from the moment it leaves Gun Metal to the split second it explodes. During the missions there is some guy giving voice overs on where to go, what do to, what the current situation is and how well or how badly you are doing. This commentary unlike most games is timed just right, not too frequent, and when something is said, its useful and vital information.

Gun Metal is one of the best XBOX games so far, the best game I've played from Rage since Incoming. Even though the learning curve is sometimes overly difficult, you won't be able to stop yourself from giving it that one final attempt, no matter how many times that final attempt is.

Gun Metal is one of the best games of the year so far, its pure action all the way through, and you won't be able to stop coming back for more

Rent First, this has been rated okay by the beta testers

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: July 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Before you buy into one of the developers reviews about this
game. Just go out and rent before you buy. Seriously, the
only game worth owning is Halo, years beyond anything with
GTA excluded. Oh, about the game. This is a poor substitute for the upcomming Robotech release that will rock you out around xmas. Yes, with a years worth of dust collecting titles that you only played one and a half times this
one will be played about two. I doubt they will let this review be posted because they want to sell products but oh well..,.,

uhhhhhhhhhhhhh

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 17
Date: July 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game is horrrrrrrrrrrrrrible. I have tried the demo and it is way to slow, basically just a complete copy of mech warrior. They shouldn't bother with this game, they should just stick to mech warrior.
Trust me

A must

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the prhaps the best game for the Xbox, second only to Halo. With a quick learning curve, excellent gameplay, and stunning graphics, this game is a superb choice.

Good Fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is a lot of fun to play but it has its issues.

Some stages are extremly easy and some are just too difficult and can become repetitive.

The graphics are better that most games, but judging from halo, they can be a lot better.The enviroments are great but the mech in it's non-jet form can look better.

The sound is average.

The mech moves too slowly, maybe I need to read the instructions becuase I can't seem to get it to run. Moving about the environments quickly requires flying, which is a lot of fun but can become dangerous in mountainous environments where you have to stay in the valley or be shot down.

On thing that I really don't like is that if there is a lot of action taking place, the gameplay slows down tremendously.

Having said these things, I don't consider this a waste of money. I wish I could give it 3.5 stars. I really like the variety of guns that can be acquired (different situations require different guns), blowing up stuff (animals, tanks, fighter jets, motherships, buildings, etc), flying (a bit awkward at first but I got the hang of it), dogfighting, and the mixture of tactical strikes and brute force.

Boring.....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the first games I got for my xbox (Halo on order). The graphics are ok but ofter poorly rendered where the characters interact with the enviorment. The control layot is sensible but the mech is often frustrating to control on the ground and in jet mode its just plain bad. The jet responds agonizingly slow to command inputs which complicates air-air combat with targets that fly much slower than you can.

Overall its 3 stars on a good day. I enjoy the weapon selection and the targeting interface that has the option to toggle auto-aim on and off. The missle trails are nicely done as are the sounds. Its a playable and fun game....just not very entertaining and pretty limited in scope.

In the dog days of gaming, hops out a savior!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Everyone knows in the summer, gaming is usually dull and the developers are working to live up to what they had said at E3 a month before the start of the season. Gun Metal is a fresh new title that's a bit short, and the price is pretty good.

Story:
Okay, in Gun Metal, you are in the future and Earth is all crapped up because of us, but from many decades of space exploration, we have finally learned how to utilize warp-holes to our advantage. Many people have moved to new places, but now a new place called Helios is in the spotlight. however only a few get to go and because of this, people start to bicker and fight, but a few make it through the warp-hole and when they finally reached Helios, they closed the gate for what they thought was forever. however, the people on earth opened up the gate to Helios and started to bring people to conqueror the place. the life on Helios used to be good, but now war is destroying the place and your people are starting to lose. Project Gun Metal is finally put into action to liberate the planet of Helios. Failure is not an option. 4/5

Gamplay:
Gameplay for the Havoc (Project Gun Metal Prototype 1, ie YOU!) battle suit and in jet mode is conducted in 3rd person. Mainly, you are a mech (big 40' robot, run 1 km in a matter of seconds) with missles, machine guns, so called "shotgun" for mechs of your size, plasma disc launchers, grenades, and other stuff you can think of the blow up stuff. In "mech" mode, you can strafe, jump, and absorb a limited amount of attacks via a rechargeable energy sheild (Halo, anyone?). and also in Mech mode, you can switch to a Jet, which is an airplane fighter with 10x the speed of the mech and the same amount of explosives. however you do have different weapons. There is no multilplayer in Gun Metal, which explains the below-average price. The single player campaign is short, but you'll find yourself replaying mission because of new weapons and to test new skills. however, the gameplay never goes beyond tried and true, its still a good addition to your xbox game collection. 5/5

Graphics:
Xbox is really an amazing machine that beats the PS2, GCN, and PC (sometimes!) at its graphical power. i would have to say that if you have ever seen halo's graphics, its on par with it. the explosions are amazing and each detail has been paid attention to. 5/5

Sound:
Finally, an xbox game that supports custom soundtrack, yet it is not a racing game! Also, you can hear huge explosion and if you have surround sound with your entertainment system, the bass frequencies get really low so you can feel the explosions! 5/5

Replayability:
This is where Gun Metal falls. it only has a single player mode, and there is only 14 missions in the entire game. no mission takes more than 30 minutes (it shouldn't). some are really hard though, and may take a little longer than 30 minutes to complete a mission (the time counter does not take in account on how many times you retried the mission. some of the missions are really hard becasue you have to keep from destroying something of your ally's and the thing that you have to protect gets broken really easily. 3/5 if you are a casual gamer 2/5 if you are hardcore. if ur hardcore, you'll finish it in about 4 days max and then trade it for something else.

overall:
there is absolutly nothing wrong about this game. replayability may be a slight issue, but this game is excellent and well worth its price. (note, the end missions get really hard, so if you are on the 7th mission, don't say that you are half done!)

i hope this helped you in your decision to buy a new game for your little xbox that has been sitting there collecting dust =)

A realistic, practical review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: August 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The first question you have to ask yourself is why did I give this only 3 stars when the majority of reviewers are rating this game 4-5 stars? Actually, I'm tempted to give it only 2 stars, but there are a few redeeming qualities to bump it to 3.

I can't understand why in the world this could be one of the most anticipated games since Halo. Halo is the epitome of the Xbox action game, and it only seems wise to at least try to emulate it. Let's break it down:

Graphics: The landscapes are very nice and rendered very well, but this should be considered par for xbox. The clouds are rendered believably well too, except the cloud "layer" that you pass through while flying is simply a light fog, always the same density. The trees are rendered very well, and when destroyed by bombs, fire, etc., the effect is pretty neat. The rest of the graphics, however, are very "video game"-like, meaning, they appear plastic, and extremely non-realistic, i.e., brightly mono-colored regions. This is definitely a "mech-warrior" look and feel. The GunMetal transformer appears rendered in unchanging perfect colors, no splotches or blends. I remember reading a review about how realistic the "blood & guts" are in this game. Nothing could be further from the truth. When GunMetal "kills" something, the blood shoots out in the same 8-point star pattern every time--it appears to be rendered with the "sponge" paint brush tool & looks really bad for such a highly awaited game. In a nutshell, except for the landscapes, the graphics are very 80's arcade-like.

Audio. The mission commander is a good idea, yet in this game it is WAY over the top. The commander's voice sounds like Alec Baldwin on steroids after a pack of cigarettes. The urgency in the voice is lost because of how much of a parody it seems. The cues during the mission become repetative, even though they are timed correctly. Someone else said that the weapons each have their own realistic sounds. I personally have never heard what a tomohawk missle is supposed to sound like, so I wouldn't vouch for that. Each weapon does have it's own unique sound, but again, they're all very arcade-like.

Overall: Game controls are somewhat easy to master. Audio is NOT impressive, and graphics are cartoon-arcade-like execept for terrain. The missions are rushed and you're forced to keep moving too quickly. Worst yet, it's not even multiplayer. This game would be a great rental, but I would recommend saving your money toward Halo 2. Good thing I bought FIFA 2002 Soccer at the same time--at least it's realistic. And I still always come back to Halo.

my thoughts

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

VERY LITTLE PLOT. Before I ordered this game I know there would be little plot, and more action. This is exactly what I got :) I was very pleased with game. Not too long but quite challenging. If you like arcade style games this is for you. If you're looking for depth of story, go somewhere else

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