Metal Arms: Glitch in the System

"It's a Halo-style game on Gamecube!!!"

Finally, a shooter worth it. Metal Arms: Glitch in the System has a deep story, great graphics, lots of weapons, and most importantly a deep single player mode with unlockable multiplayer maps!

Story: 8.5/10
You play Glitch, a bot who, quite frankly, has passed out. He awakens to hear a bot dropping the F-Bomb like it's World War 3, and eventually you'll find out Droid Town is under attack and you and two other bots (Screwed and Hosed) must go to the mines and save as many workers as you can. The next mission is nothing but havoc, as Screwed and Hosed die, and you're left alone to do the dirty work. This game tells a great story.

Gameplay: 10/10
Everything you want out of a shooter. An arsenal of 17 weapons, 40+ campaign missions (WOW), the ability to hijack bots to do your dirty work, 3 drivable vehicles, and even secret ''chips'' that are used to unlock the 14 multiplayer maps. Simply put, single player is awesome, with one tiny complaint about the lighting on the first few levels. Multiplayer is what this game is about. Read on.

Multiplayer: 9/10
Multiplayer is great in this game. Up to 4 players can duke it out in Halo-style games like Bot Brawl (deathmatch), Tag, King of the Hill, and a game called Possesion Melee where you try to take over bots to help kill your foes. All in all there are 7 modes to play, and once again one tiny complaint: Where's Capture the Flag?!?
Anyway you can customize the multiplayer games to suit your needs. Don't like playing King of the Hill for just 2 minutes? Make it 20! Wish the winning score in deathmatch was higher than 10? Make it 50! This game has every customizable feature you could ask for.

Sound: 5/10
For what it has, the sound is good. The opening page has music. The rest of the game pretty much, doesn't. The sound effects are very well done (Driving a vehicle, for instance). However I would've like to have seen a lot more music then what it had. But nobody buys shooters for music, anyway, so this won't effect my final score.

Graphics: 9.5/10
Great job here. Watch your enemy explode in a blaze of glory. You can actually see if you fractured a bot because there arm will seriously be messed up. They will shoot the wrong way. This game's got some great detail in the graphics. Just look at a tank before you get into it.

Replay Value: High
With 4 difficulty levels, I started on Easy. After ''easily'' beating it I went on to play ''Hard'', but the hardest mode for you untouchables is called ''Nuts of Steel'' (think about it... Bots... ''Nuts'' of ''Steel''...Haha... that wasn't funny). You will play this game for hours and hours and never get bored. If you do get bored, you probably haven't played multiplayer with 4 players yet, have you?

Final Score: 10/10
No questions asked. This game rocks!

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 02/02/04