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Don't buy this Game! It s --NOT-- like Halo!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 16
Date: December 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is no way like like Halo!... I have played many games, that is puzzle solving 100%. My friends & I love to play the following games as single & multiplayer, the games like Halo, Mechassaut, Ghost Recon, Pac Man World 2, Enclave, Conclict Deasert Storm, Star Wars Jedi Outcast, Splintercell, soul Calibur II, Elder Scrolls, & Brute Force are all great games!........... This Game, METAL ARMS Glitch in the System, well my friends & I couldn't wait to get the game. We were all very dissappointent in this game. Yes there are Monsters to kill at every turn of the game. The puzzles are also there 100% of the time. What really makes this game bad, is only one game can be saved or played, each time you wish to play a new game, you must esase 100% of the old game. You can't go back to play any part of the game, without wiping the game clean & then you must start over. So what if you can play many players split screen, until your friends can finish the game, you can't play, unless you wish to esase the game in progess, so you can play. Of couse your friends game will have to start all over again. WORST GAME OF THE YEAR!!! DON"T BUY THIS TRASH!!

Fustrating and Poorly Programed DO NOT BUY!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 20
Date: December 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The levels of play are incorrectly listed. Easy, is in truth, Very Difficult, and it gets worst with each level upwards. With some levels that are impossible to complete with any success, except with a lucky attempt, that one can never do twice in an hour of play. An example of this, is the level that is called "Zombie Bot King". After several hours of play, I was still unable to kill it. This bot takes large steps as it chases you, and a huge weapon that does a lot of damage, when it hits you & it has the range to hit you. Any damage done to the bot, results in the bot standing still for 5-10 seconds, to totally recharge its health. This bot can't be killed with damage done to its outer heavy armored skin. One it takes so much damage, it frezzes for about 6-8 seconds, with its mouth open, "a 1 inch target" which you can shoot about 7 missles inside it, before it becomes active and kills you with one swing of its weapon. The throwing of the grenades at the open mouth at close range will miss 95% of the time, while it will do great damage to yourself each time it explodes. Once its active again, it will have totally recharge all of its health, while your bot is hurt, and its weapons are must be reloaded with weapons laying at a distance from you. There is a very short time limit before you loss. Info on the net, one person said they got lucky in killing this bot with the time alloted for your attempt to kill it. Each time it stops to recharge, you must put 4 each of the rockets and 4 grenades inside the bots mouth, all 8 weapons must explode inside the bot's mount, without slightly hitting the edge of the mouth, and with in the 8 second the bot is recharging. Of couse you must stay at a distance doing damage to the bot until it stops, then it takes about 2 seconds to get close enough to fire your weapons. Oh the weapons can't fire very fast, and the grenades miss the mouth opening, while it does damage to you, and you must use at least 1 second to excape when this bot becomes active. So in truth you have 5 seconds to throw grenades and fire the rockets. Of course to throw & fire 4 each, it take about a minimum 6 seconds. Each time you die, you get to start this level over, again & again. And this is called the very easy level. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!

Worst game ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: May 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I spent 20 minutes just trying to get past the first platformer style jumping obstacle. I never made it. No matter what angle I approached the jump from I could never make it across to the target platform. I hate games that have obnoxiously difficult obstacles.

Definitely rent this one before you buy it.

Metal Arms is so much fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: November 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have to say that I really like METAL ARMS. The concepts in it - recruiting friendly bots, taking control of enemies, and the collecting of washers in order to buy weapons, weapon upgrades, energy, and ammo - are great. The graphics, level design, and sound effects are among the best I've experienced in any game.

Having said that, the thing I can't believe about this game is the controls - they only allow the standard FPS control scheme! I'm not left handed but I've always used the "southpaw" setup in FPS games because pulling the firing trigger throws off my aim in standard. By now I'm used to it, and it's never been a big deal because in EVERY other game you can customize the controls or at least pick from several control options, but NOT IN METAL ARMS. For me, this nearly ruined the whole game. Yes I'm adjusting but it throws me off and makes the game much harder and more frustrating than it needs to be. It could have been a pure pleasure to play but instead it's a struggle fighting the controls as well as the enemies. If you're used to standard this won't affect you, but it's such a basic thing that I still can't believe the designers left it out. I mean, you can invert up/down and you can even set the look sensitivity, but no options for the control scheme...??? I keep thinking that maybe I'm wrong and I just haven't found out how to change it yet, because the people who made this game wouldn't leave out such a common sense basic option, right?!? OK it isn't the end of the world but it drives me nuts that they obviously put in so much time and effort building an innovative, fun, and beautiful game and then they kill it by forgetting something stupid like control scheme setup. If this game interests you, and you're used to controls other than standard, you'll be stuck relearning how to play. Don't let it keep you from getting METAL ARMS, because it's otherwise such a great game, but just be warned.

And it really is a great game. Scheme aside, the controls are tight and responsive, the enemies are detailed and smart (at least the ones that are supposed to be smart), and the gameplay in general is lots of fun. There are things like gold washers, chips, and powerups to search for without it bogging you down ( they're in logical areas - behind pillars, under bridges, and in tunnels or ditches). If you want you can just ignore all those things and blast your way through the game. That doesn't mean that you don't have to think in this game, but just that it doesn't get in the way of the action. There are of course some parts where smart play is necessary, like an enemy boss that has to be killed in a certain way that isn't immediately apparent.

METAL ARMS feels like a Super Mario type platformer with weapons. Lots and lots of weapons! ...perfectly designed with great firing action and reloading. One of the things I like most is that there is a real difference between weapons. You have to pay attention to what enemy bot you're fighting because sometimes you'll need to switch to the right weapon to be able to kill them before they kill you. Upgrading the right weapons at the right time will make the combat easier to handle. The combat itself is amazing: a frenzy of hard-hitting firefights with huge explosions and robots screaming and coming apart all over the place. It's funny to sneak up and throw a grenade at a group of enemy soldier bots and watch what happens. They yell and freak out and try to get away and then the grenade pops and they each explode individually. You walk over and there are smoldering robot remains with gears and springs everywhere. It's great.

METAL ARMS is an extremely fun game with heavy combat, firepower, and beautiful levels and enemies that are well designed and great to look at (and destroy). I can't give it 5 stars only because some aspects look and feel unfinished, like they rushed it to market before it was 100% completed. Not anything crucial in the game itself, but for instance the lack of control choice (important to me!) and certain other things, especially menus and such, that just seem thrown together at the last minute when compared to the rest of the game. Still, METAL ARMS is one of the best games I've played in a long time and I recommend it to anyone who likes shooters. You'll love it.

Definately not just another "average" shooter!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: October 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks! Metal Arms is a hard core shooter with just a dash of platformer in there for fun, a perfect mix. Tons of weapons, and tons of things to blow up. The AI is great, right up there with some of the very best 1st person shooters. Unlike most hard core shooters, this game does not take itself too seriously, it has a great sense of humor. The enemy robots mouthing off at you are funny. Also the robot "hijacking" is super cool. You get to take over and play as just about all of the enemies. Some of them have special abilites like jump jets and power stomps that are great for clearing out the other enemies. When you hijack a robot the other bad guys talk to you like you are one of them, it's funny. It's a tough game, but if you're ready for a challenge, you gotta play this!

Heavy metal thunder

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I caught this one at the discount bin at work, and figured I'd give it a try. Even if it proved to be disappointing, it wasn't like I was dropping fifty bucks on it. Well, it would have been worth fifty (or more).

This is one of the best titles I've ever played for the Xbox (or any other system). It has great action, incredible gameplay, and some truly innovative ideas. The story is pretty simple: You're Glitch, a re-assembled mining robot who's out to save his fellow robots from the nefarious schemes of General Corrosive and his legions of evil Mil bots. This game is basically a combination of a third-person shooter (with a trouble-free camera setup, a definite plus) and a platformer. It's mission-based: Go from point A to point B, kill anything that gets in your way, go to the next level. That's par for the course with most platformers. What makes this game stand out, however, is intense action and the unique elements incorporated into its gameplay. You can hijack enemy robots either through terminals scattered about the game (looking much like arcade consoles) or using a control tether (awarded about halfway through the game). Sometimes this is required in order to advance; there are some security checkpoints that only enemy bots can pass. Other times, you're allowed to just wreak havoc; at one point, you control a giant Titan robot, a "weapon of mass destruction" if there ever was one. If you're careful, you can sneak up on an enemy, hijack him, and have him take out a number of enemies before he's destroyed (or goes out of range). Another way to take control of an enemy is to use a Recruitment Grenade. Use that, and he'll fight for you until he's dead or you release him.

--A tip: When you're finished using an enemy bot, have him destroy himself (jump into water or a chasm, for example). Otherwise, that's another enemy you'll have to deal with.

You begin with some basic weapons, gaining more powerful ones as the game progresses. Additionally, most of the weapons can be upgraded, either with upgrades found at random points in the game, or by buying them from two shopkeeping robots (with loads of attitude, natch) that you encounter here and there. You buy upgrades using washers that dead enemies sometimes leave behind.

--A couple of hints: An easy way to get extra washers is to shoot enemy computer terminals and machines. Also, don't be too quick to buy upgrades, and don't upgrade every weapon. Some are worth it, and some aren't. The game will give you some upgrades (for example, you get one at the beginning of "Enter the Trenches," and another is hidden behind a large rock in a trench). Definitely upgrade the rocket launcher (your best defense against Titans), the SPEW (a machine-gun, basically), the Rivet Gun (fire explosive rivets, and has good range) and the Scatter Blaster (devastating at close range). Don't bother to spend the extra rivets on the Mining Laser (weak, even at maximum power) or the Ripper (ditto).

You also have a steady supply of Coring Charges (the game's equivalent of grenades) and special thrown weapons. There's the EMP grenade, which casts an electromagnetic pulse that disables enemies for a few moments, long enough for you to destroy or hijack them. Be careful: Though you have some shielding from the EMP effect, it can disorient you if you get too close. Magma grenades cast a lethally intense pool of liquid fire, very effective against Titans or closely-clustered enemies.

Scattered throughout the game are gold chips. Collect enough of them, and you'll unlock multiplayer levels. Also, you can gain speed chips by finishing a level in a certain amount of time.

Graphically, this title really shines on the XBox. The game features great particle effects; when you destroy an enemy, he tends to explode in stages (usually from the top down), shedding wires, gears, and shrapnel in every direction. The larger the enemy, the more impressive his demise. Lighting and environmental effects are realistically rendered, and Glitch himself is well-designed and moves easily and smoothly. Controls are simple and uncomplicated. Double-handed attacks (for example, with the SPEW and a coring charge) are very effective against large groups of enemies. A single rocket shot combined with a Coring Charge directed at a Titan can be devastating.

What else can I say? First-rate all the way, full of action, humor, and excellent gameplay. Definitely recommended to fans of action games and shooters.

--Christian Wheeler

This game ROCKS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: December 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Wow, this game rocks! It is 95% bot destroying, pieces flying, metal clanking, non-stop action with just a few puzzles here and there. It has 4 difficulty settings, and on Easy this game is pretty easy to destroy even multiple enemies. But its most fun on normal. If you like Halo, this game comes very close. It has a ton of enemies, weapons, vehicles, and minigames and has something like 40+ levels. It also has 4 player split screen multi player action with many types of games you can play. My brother and I got this last week and we (and our friends) haven't been playing anything else. Buy Metal Arms. It's totally worth the money! Great game! I highly recommend it.

Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a challending game with lots of shootem up and puzzle solving. Those looking for mindless shootem ups look somewhere else, you actually have to think on some levels of this game.

Metal Arms

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think that Metal Arms: Glitch In the System is a very good game. It's got a lot of action, some good laughs, and lots and lots of guns and upgrades. If you liked Halo you'll definetly like this. Controls are very easy to get used to, and multiplayer is very good too. Overall out of ten I'd give Metal Arms a 9.4. Thank you.

Pay no attention to Gefferey Sandene....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: August 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Im posting this because of Gefferey Sandenes review. If you have read I would like to let you know that it is entirely untrue. This game, while challenging, will not be to difficult for the average no-mentally challenged person. On easy mode you should immediately be put in extra special ed if you find it impossibe. Gefferey Sandene must not only be the worst gamer on the palnet but also up on the charts for stupidity. Glitch is a great game over all. If it had Xboxlive support or even system link for the multiplayer I would give it 5 stars but since it does not I give it 4.

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