A difficult side-scrolling action game, Metal Mutant is similar to Sierra's Thexder in that it allows you to transform at any time into three different robot forms, each with its own weapons. The range of combat moves and weapon choices are far greater than an average action game, as you can use torpedoes, axes, rope, tooth, and even a remote-controlled flying robot.
Although billed as another action/adventure, it's really just an action game, although a very good one.
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I loved this on the Amiga. Prince of Persia, Another World, Wings, It Came From the Desert, James Pond II: Robocod. These were games that I escaped into for hours. I loved every minute I spent in them and I look for similar gameplay in newer titles due to it. Sure, the controls in Metal Mutant are clunky and there is almost no room for error but it was so awesome for the time. Even now when I see it I get what I liked about it. I played all of these on an A500 with 1MB Chip RAM and 1MB slow RAM. Bog stock as per game developers. The older 512MB chip RAM machines needed the Fat Agnus and the 512k RAM extender/RTC to take advantage of much of the library. When I play today I use an Amiga emulator. But now I'm going to look into the VGA ports of these games. It's an entire era I missed out on. When C= went bankrupt in 1994 I knew it was done and within a couple years was on the PC bandwagon. Tried Mac, too proprietary and the least expensive units did not play games well. By the summer of 1997 I had a box of PC parts from an acquaintance. AMD 286 and Intel 386 SX. Mixed matched parts until I realized they were slow. The 286 DX was faster than the 386 SX. I went to a local PC shop where they sold me a motherboard combo with memory. AMD 486 DX 120. Not bad but slower than the top Intel 486. I then bought a Pentium 120 w/16MB SDRAM and board. The entire time using Vesa local bus or standard PCI VGA cards. So 3D acceleration yet. The following year in 1998 I finally got a PII 350, 32MB PC 100 SDRAM, 10GB HDD and an ATI RAGE 128 chip. It sucked off main memory which made it near useless. It was supposed to come with a Riva TNT in AGP format but the machine came from Gateway with no AGP port even though the board had the spot for it. It was either send them the machine back or take a discount. I took the discount and used it to buy a PCI VOODOO 2 3000. It made some games run better. Others ran better on the on-board GPU due to it's AGP 4x link. I had to swap back and forth. That was the last time I bought a pre-built. I lease one for 3 months in 2017 and gave it back. Wasn't worth it. I've built all of my PCs myself otherwise. And I have to say, they all worked better however while I was taking this route through 1994 to 1998 I missed out on some really good PC ports that literally killed their Amiga and Mac counterparts. And now? Now I'd like to take that trip back down memory lane.
I believe I played this game about 30 year ago, probably in 1994.
The media was a 5.25" 1.2Mb floppy disk and the computer was a 386 DX 40MHz (no math coprocessor). A SVGA 15" crt monitor, a 40MB hard disk, two floppy disk drives (5.25" and 3.5"). I am not sure, but I believe my graphics card was a Trident, but I can't remember more details now.
My God, how many good memories of this time!
I hope that many other people can enjoy this masterpiece of the 90s.
Thanks for sharing this game!
Holy crap, i spent so much time playing this and "Gods" in my teens.Not sure what mode that dos version is in but pretty sure it was vga from memory like the amiga version graphics shown.Amazing to see my abandonware include this or i would have never remembered it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3k3d_XE_n0&ab_
You can watch gameplay video of this game. Thanks myabandonware
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