15 Antworten in diesem Thema

[Red Panda]

(topic is the question)

Thank you.

[elitecom]

Ah Shattered Steel, it was my first PC game, brings back memories. I don't know how good of a discription this will be since it was such a long time ago, but you're controling these bipedal robots, and you're fighting some kind of aliens. There are many other types of robots, some flying, and some walking. The gameplay is supposedly similar to the gameplay found in Mechwarrior games, but I never played those games so I don't know for sure.

It's a fun game alright, though I don't remember all the details around it, besides those I've mentioned. I've lost the CD, so I can't exactly play it, wish I could get it back though.

[SaY4cT]

Well it's very pointy sharp
makes excellent tool in time of battle
wouldn't recommend carrying in pockets though

[Red Panda]

Thanks elitecom.

[Nazcom]

It was one of my first as well, and I waited many a year for the promise of a sequel to come to fruition. Alas, it was for naught...

But I digress, exactly what elitecom said, it seemed very much like Mechwarrior and at te time I felt it would have given Mechwarrior a run for its money. It was very story-centric for a action game, you had a mission computer with a female voice who was your only firend and who would inform you of missions. I don't think I ever beat the game w/o cheats, the last baddy was a giant Mantis creature who would tear you to shreds. I remember cheating and launching nuke after nuke at it.

[aries1001]

For those who have played it, and lost the CD, or haven't played it all, GOG also known as good old games have this game for 5 dollars or so. And it works with XP, Vista and Windows 7 - don't knowa bout Mac, though.

[elitecom]

aries1001 wrote...

For those who have played it, and lost the CD, or haven't played it all, GOG also known as good old games have this game for 5 dollars or so. And it works with XP, Vista and Windows 7 - don't knowa bout Mac, though.

Yeah I heard about that, I'm really tempted to go through with it too. It's been too long since I last played it, would be nice to relive the experience of my first PC game.

[TrentO]

My First Game! We actually started on a sequel, but it was converted into MDK2. I miss giant robot games.

-Trent

[Garden of Heaven]

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Bearbeitet von Garden of Heaven, 04 März 2012 - 03:41 .

[Selene Moonsong]

My husband played it. I tried it, but never really got into it. Sill have the CD for it. Maybe I'll rebuild one of my old computers into a retro gamer box and load up some really old games on it.

[The Grey Ranger]

Don't know if anyone cares but it's available on GOG for about six bucks.

[Red Panda]

^Hehe, seems good.

Bearbeitet von OperatingWookie, 24 Oktober 2013 - 04:33 .

[Abraham_uk]

elitecom wrote...

Ah Shattered Steel, it was my first PC game, brings back memories. I don't know how good of a discription this will be since it was such a long time ago, but you're controling these bipedal robots, and you're fighting some kind of aliens. There are many other types of robots, some flying, and some walking. The gameplay is supposedly similar to the gameplay found in Mechwarrior games, but I never played those games so I don't know for sure.

It's a fun game alright, though I don't remember all the details around it, besides those I've mentioned. I've lost the CD, so I can't exactly play it, wish I could get it back though.

Is the game like Pacific Rim?

[aries1001]

You can get shattered steel or rather buy it at www.gog.com - if you want to play it again

[Seraphim24]

Shattered Steel is one of Bioware's first games and forgotten in their history I think along with MDK2 a bit, it was before Baldur's Gate when they started making more RPG like games (and which branched off in NWN and others)

 

Honestly, the best way I can describe it is as like this very silly kind of goofy mech game, with lots of emphasis on kind of building and details and bells and whistles. You have access to a number of different mechs as well as a large number of weapons and such, as well as different varieties (lasers as secondary or primary, sort of thing)

 

The game is also extremely long, especially for it's time, 30+ missions or so often with comprehensive briefings, changes in missions, etc, it's just extremely, extremely big. I think that's something that stuck with Bioware through the years, the ability to just generate lots of kinds of, well high productive capacity.

 

Anyway, one thing that jumped out was the soundtrack which is extremely ambient and kind of immersive in that sense. It's like this very kind of deep sense of mystery and kind of clashing chaotic feelings and stuff.

 

I think in many ways, early Bioware had a very renegade and kind of "anything goes" aesthetic. The story basically involved a post-apocalyptic world run by corporations, which you are hired to help out against the invaders and all that.

 

The cinematics are particular extensive considering the time and all that. Anyway, it's been interesting to me because I didn't play it on release but a bit later (I came to Bioware with BG1), I noticed in many ways it reflected that Bioware was kind of more of like a cinematic sort of over the top kind of company moreso than the RPG thing that came along later with BG1. It made understanding their more recent games and such more recently. I think they always had an interest in sci-fi and kind of deep science as well (which I guess makes sense, given that they were doctors and all that)

 

Overall, I actually had played a lot of Mechwarrior at the time, and I do generally find Mechwarrior to be quite an amazing series in many ways. I think Shattered Steel illustrated a different take though, and that's perfectly valid, which is to focus more on like this mission of a person against a bunch of well aliens in the case of Shattered Steel, kind of like, on their own, sort of unsure what to make of the world, more comfortable looking through the lens of a mech and kind of observing and understanding the world in that perspective.

 

I could pick at the game I don't really want to but it felt like shields were a bit overpowered relative to the other things, I was continuously cranking the shields to be less powerful and weapons more powerful because I often felt kind of underpowered for different encounters. Also the "limb targeting" for mechs and such could be sort of awkward as well, since I felt like I would shoot the same spot trying to understand it better and not really succeeded.

 

Sometimes, objectives were kind of hard to ascertain as well, like you could get instructions to go here or do this but it was somewhat hard to determine where that would be since much of the terrain was sort of uniform, so you ultimately relied on the map a lot.

 

Ultimately, it's interesting because you can better understand their aesthetic vis a vis later entries like Mass Effect and stuff which in many ways reflect the exact same core philosophies.

 

In many ways, it's actually BG and to a degree NWN are the exceptions to the rule, with the focus being on kind of heavy content with a more linear dimension perhaps.

 

ME2 and to a degree perhaps DA2 are a "return to form" I guess in a sense, featuring the similar styles in many ways that were incorporated into the original Shattered Steel and MDK2 as well. 

 

 

I'll be quite honest if you are a fan of later Bioware games, or just interested in really deep immersion sort of experiences, it's worth playing today because in many ways it does a lot of those things better than later games, even to day. Although, the learning curve would be a bit steeper than usual, it's all still there and kind of potent.