The Most Okay ZX Spectrum Game | Metal Army
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Metal Army for the ZX Spectrum, the most average of budget games you're ever likely to get. Enjoy it, but don't enjoy it too much, for it is the most ok ZX Spectrum game ever made.
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The "soldier" on the cover art is named Joe "Pure Ambivalence" Blade....master of weapons, celebrated lover, often does sudokus during combat.
Good Graphics £1, Good Animation £1, Good Gameplay £1. Yep, definitely worth £2 that game.
Bargain basement game with some shocking softlocks! Animation wasn't too bad I'll give it that.
I played this quite a bit, it was actually a pleasant surprise that a hardly known game wasn't complete doodoo.
I’d follow General Ironside anywhere…to death, to glory, to mediocrity, to the party as Richters +1. Come on you Marine, you wanna live forever?!
I like the word denizen, spotted it in the instructions.. it seemed to be used a fair bit in the speccy world :D.. denizen the game was alright too
I bought this game for the Speccy when it was released back in the day and I have to agree with your review, of it being £1.99.
Played it in short bursts and was mildly disappointed that it didn't have any stonking title music which Players were always good at providing in most of their games.
We had this game back in the day! The title and cover art had nothing to do with the game, nor did the weird terminator arm on the loading screen. 99% of the time we never got past the first screen at 0:59. And do remember on one occasion that we did, we were stuck in the lift like you were at 3:06.
Not gonna lie, when I initially went to test the game I was absolutely baffled by that first room, but by the time I came to record I'd accidentally got the knack for it. It doesn't help that the traps don't start setting off until you land in amongst them!
@@RoseTintedSpectrum It's a really unfairly difficult room, right at the start of the game. I feel the game was similar to a lot of similar Players Software games. They looked slick on first impression, but repeated play showed they weren't that great.
Finally another great channel to binge watch
God I remember this.
Yeh. Very OK game.
Do you remember a game called Terminus, it was a Mastertronic game from the mid 80s.
I recently went back to it. And it was such a nostalgia rush.
Still crap at it all these years later.
I recognise the name, will have to check it out!
I'm pretty sure this game was made sarcastly by a hardcore reightwinger like..
"Ugh well this is our future! ai robots taking over everything and since everyone is lazy lefty, there's hardly any soldiers ,,,AND don't get me started on everything being electric"
It is so heartening to see that inflation hasn't touched this one when the ENTIRE RETRO MARKET HAS GONE INSANE in the past few years, honestly. Good job, "Marine is You" guy! Your empathy has saved this from being grossly inflated by crappy "game -resellers- collectors" nowadays.
Also, I see that lil' dude's sprite and love it! It honestly makes me wanna go fire up a run-and-gun sidescroller right now... something like Omega Strike, I guess. Hmmm...
You won the game! Congratulations!
I'm stand by my own pointless victories.
Looks like the product of Mr and Mrs generic programmers drunken fumble on a cold dark night.
Sounds like a fair review! I'm going to put it on my games to try someday list, who knows when that day will be... Cheers!
Move over OneCreditClassics, there's a new hero in town!.... Softlocking is BAD. Softlocking without Quit... unforgiveable. And that Hatred Room...
Nicely animated. Looks like it could have been better with some play testing.
That room with the enemies spawning practically onto each other is nightmarish
Looks like I could get one shipped to the States for about $20...not that I'd have any practical use for it, just to stick it on the shelf with my heavy metal biographies, I imagine.
3:52 Someone's got a 🐈! 😍
That game actually doesn't seem bad for £2 - graphically at least.
Sound's decent as well, and level design seems well thought out (mostly).
One question - why's there only ONE marine saving everyone from world domination??
Were the rest of the marines too busy engaging with their cliques slacking off, while this one was suckered in to doing all the dangerous work??
You just KNOW his fellow marines were making him feel special before the mission began!
Probably wanted him out of the way to be honest...
You can't get more than one marine on a budget.
It was too difficult for me to finish it back in the days. Graphically this games looks better than many, so it is a pity the gameplay is lacking here.
Great review.😅 This game looks like the Speccy's Dan Dare. Did you ever play 'The Rats' which was based on the pulp horror novel? A strategy and real-time text adventure. Probably the most frightening Speccy game that I'd ever played.
5:30 Loved the Boston 'Long Time' insert. ♥🎸
Yes the rats not to be played at night
I have not! Will have to check that out.
@@RoseTintedSpectrum 🐀👍
From Wikipedia;
The Rats is a survival horror text adventure for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. It is based on the 1974 novel The Rats by James Herbert. The game was programmed by GXT (Five Ways Software),[1] and published by Hodder & Stoughton, who were the publishers of James Herbert's book The Rats.[2] An Amstrad CPC version was planned, but was never released.
Gameplay
The game is a simulation that allows the player to strategically send emergency forces (rat exterminators, police men, fire men and eventually army troops) to areas where the rat threat has spread and provide them with equipment. Also the player can get ten available researchers to develop addition weapons, defences and super weapons to keep the rats at bay and to provide useful information to progress in the game. Should the rat threat reach beyond the London limits, the Research centre, the Government centre or Harris' apartment or if all emergency forces are lost, the game is over.[3]
In between the simulation gameplay, the game suddenly switches to the role of a playable character in a randomly chosen text adventure scenario. The player has to select one or more verbal options to perform actions to allow the character to survive against the rat threat and avoid getting killed. While it is not crucial to keep the characters alive, saving them grants the player additional reinforcements and research to aid against the rat threat. However, if one of the main characters Harris, Howard or Foskins dies, the game is over.[1]
Love the infographic at 2:24
So this game doesn't look terrible but I would get really hacked off if I got stuck in one of those pits 😂
Not too bad, I would say. Graphics are nice but some gameplay issues should have been solved beforehand.
If you got a high score in metal army would you print up a tshirt that says "🚨LADIES!🚨 ask me about my high score in Metal Army"
Great video mate or really enjoyed that😮,now I feel the urge to play the game and it's your fault😢😂😂
I can say with certainty that this one was of the most games ever made.
The photo used for General Ironside at 2:17... am I crazy, or is that a depressed Dave Plummer?
The amount of decent games you can STILL get for 2 quid on Steam, Nintendo eshop etc. is a bit mad
Very true, when you consider you can pick up the original Deus Ex pretty often for £2... Or you could... You could get this... I think I know where my money would go.
Scuba Dive Cauldron
yay......
I actually love the feature of real life frustration of having to restart the game because of bad game design. Though obviously if this happened to me for real I would not love it.
You should go into stand up mate, you have the kind of dry wit that would do well on panel shows like 8 out of 10 etc.
Would it be a stretch to link your cat to your 'plaster situation' ?
Surprisingly not!
Players games were all pretty lame.