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Metal Head
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Climbing into a two-legged war machine and stomping toward an occupied capital is the whole fantasy of Metal Head, and in 1995 Sega used it to show off what the 32X could do with fully textured 3D. The setup is crisp near-future military fiction: five years after the formation of a World Federation, conflict is still flaring, and the Federation Armed Forces have built armed bipedal mechs called Metal Heads to keep the peace. When a terrorist revolution seizes a country with mechs of its own, your unit is sent in to take back its capital.
The campaign starts in a small border town and pushes steadily inward, mission by mission. Before each sortie a talking head from Federation command briefs you with full voice acting, and most missions ask you to clear an area of enemy machines before a countdown timer runs out. You watch the action through the windshield of your mech, with the option to switch between several camera angles, while a control panel tracks your remaining power, the mission timer and your selected weapon, and a map in the corner marks surviving enemies as pulsing circles. It was designed with Sega's six-button controller in mind, and the extra buttons make juggling weapons and views far smoother.
Critics were divided, and plenty were harsh. GameFan's reviewers called it an excellent first-generation 32X title and Mega memorably dubbed it "the thinking man's Doom," while Electronic Gaming Monthly and Next Generation found the pace too slow. Its music team included a young Jun Senoue, later famous for his guitar-driven Sonic scores.
What makes Metal Head worth owning now is how clearly it captures the 32X's moment: a deliberate, ambitious mech shooter built to prove Sega's add-on could handle textured polygon worlds. It is a fascinating piece of Sega's experimental mid-'90s hardware era, and a direct way to see that ambition firsthand on the hardware it was made for.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1995
- Publisher
- Tec Toy
- Developer
- Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
- Genre
- Shooter, Simulation
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Bullets fly and circuits try in heavy-duty cyborg techno-slaughter. You control Metal Head, the ultimate cyborg warrior, patrolling the charred urban destruction of the great war. And a murderous mecha-force is gunning for you! INCREDIBLE 3-D textured polygon graphics engulf Metal Head in searing firefights as cyber troops, hover craft and ground attack vehicles annihilate the planet! You are the ultimate tech-destroyer - with chain guns, missiles, radar tracking and Heads-up Display! Head-banging heavy-metal music amps you up for pure warfare! 24 megs of cyber-combat rock through war torn urban streets, bombed out farmland, scorched forests and bullet-riddled 'burbs!
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