Wild Metal Country is an action game for Windows developed by DMA Design and released in 1999. It combines armored vehicle combat, open-world exploration, and a sci-fi setting where humanity's survival hinges on recovering vital resources. Instead of controlling a soldier, the player commands a tank and battles hostile machines across various worlds.
The story unfolds on three planets within the Theric system. There, machines rebelled, drove out the human population, and seized the energy cores—items essential for regaining control of the territories. In the single-player campaign, the mission involves taking down adversaries and, above all, locating and retrieving the stolen cores. Combat is the means of progression, but the objective goes beyond mere destruction; players must also navigate the environment and complete their assigned tasks.
The different planets add variety to the journey, ensuring each confrontation takes place in a unique landscape. ...
Wild Metal Country is an action game for Windows developed by DMA Design and released in 1999. It combines armored vehicle combat, open-world exploration, and a sci-fi setting where humanity's survival hinges on recovering vital resources. Instead of controlling a soldier, the player commands a tank and battles hostile machines across various worlds.
The story unfolds on three planets within the Theric system. There, machines rebelled, drove out the human population, and seized the energy cores—items essential for regaining control of the territories. In the single-player campaign, the mission involves taking down adversaries and, above all, locating and retrieving the stolen cores. Combat is the means of progression, but the objective goes beyond mere destruction; players must also navigate the environment and complete their assigned tasks.
The different planets add variety to the journey, ensuring each confrontation takes place in a unique landscape. Players can choose from several tank types, allowing them to approach battles with vehicles that have distinct characteristics, while the wide-angle view and explorable terrain convey the scale of the environments. The gameplay alternates between objective-seeking and firefights, capturing the spirit of mechanical adventure typical of late-90s science fiction.
Wild Metal Country also features a multiplayer mode, where the struggle for resources becomes even more competitive. In this mode, bounty hunters who have already retrieved cores from another planet face off against one another to claim the spoils and the glory. The premise transforms the rescue mission into a player-versus-player battle, offering a direct alternative to the single-player campaign.
Blending tank combat, exploration, and action, the game stands out by moving away from conventional character-based skirmishes; here, the protagonist is a heavy machine that must carve a path through worlds occupied by other machines. Its setting, recovery objectives, and single-player and multiplayer modes combine to create a vehicular combat experience focused equally on survival and territorial conquest.
