Heavy Metal Geomatrix

by Sega

Product Features

• video game
• nanobot warrior

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005MKYX
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 12, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,430 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

With the evolution of Nanobot technology, microscopic robots have recreated human cell composition in the cyberworld. Fantasy and reality have merged into one neoworld, and humans have abandoned the real world for the cyber luxury of the virtual world. While their backs were turned on reality, most natural resources have been stolen and the polar caps are melting. What little turf remains above water has been claimed by thugs, gangs, and mercenaries. The battle for landmass begins, only now war is waged inside the Geomatrix using Nanobots armed with devastating weaponry.

In the game, four teams of Nanobot warriors clash in futuristic 3-D arenas for the pursuit of land. You can choose from 12 different Nano-Gladiators to battle it out in the post-apocalyptic Geomatrix. The game features cool characters based on creations from artist Simon Bisley and edgy 3-D graphics. The blistering metal soundtrack contains new songs by Megadeth, Halford, Corrosion of Conformity, WASP, Entombed, and Dust to Dust.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A fun game with no depth, December 9, 2003

By 

Nordo - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heavy Metal Geomatrix (Video Game)

Heavy Metal Geomatrix has all the things a game needs to be awsome for about an hour: A large selection of high powered weapons and some badass music. Sadly, the game lacks several things that would keep it entertaining beyond that first spin, like complex and varied arenas or characters with unique abilities and play styles.

The actual arenas in this game are all rather compact, with either a hill or a wall to lamely spice things up. They don't have any personality, or fun additions like, say, the obstical filled levels in smash brothers have. It becomes about as dull as you'd expect playing on what's basically the same level over and over.

The characters are similarly generic. There's 4 teams of three fighters, but the teams don't mean anything other than cosmetic differences. The only real distinctions between the characters is whether they're guy, girl, or brute. Girls are fast, Brutes are strong, guys are balanced. Each character DOES have a specific set of starting weapons, but once the match begins you'll quickly use it up or grab a new one anyways. There's no special moves, feel or play style to any of the fighters, you can pretty much do the same stuff with any of them. It's hard to tell if you've even changed characters between matches.

Chaos matrix mode does add some extra enjoyment. You basically cruise around in various arenas made of blocks trying to kill enemies and/or grab keys and then exit before time runs out. Most of these are way too short and easy, but a few actually take place in a large and interesting (though made of blocks) arenas against a challenging assortment of opponents. But unless you feel like replaying them over and over to beat your high scores, they'll get old fast.

If you've already got some good battling games, pick up HMG to add some variation to you and your friends' gaming. But don't expect too much. This game, while certainly not bad, is still just %100 collection filler.

2.0 out of 5 stars Get the soundtrack., February 2, 2007

By 

RedPower (Kansas City, KS) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Heavy Metal Geomatrix (Video Game)

Capcom went truly insane when they unleashed this bizarre arena fighting game. It's a shame you have to fight the non-controllable camera as much as your cartoony, futuristic opponents. Clearly, the budget went to the great tunes on the soundtrack, most of them by well-known bands. Now that the game and soundtrack are so cheap, you can buy them both with little regret. The game is not entirely horrible, just shallow and underdeveloped. Too bad you can't just stick this Dreamcast game into a standard CD player and get all the music. I know, I've tried....

4.0 out of 5 stars A good game with a huge flaw, July 2, 2006

By 

Steve "SBN" (Kenosha, WI) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Heavy Metal Geomatrix (Video Game)

This game is a port of the arcade game by the same name. The game is not like Spawn but like Power Stone except it's way more darker. The game is basically a fighting game for the 128 bit era. it has arenas that don't have a 2D picture in the background and a flat ground. it's fully 3D and has some desctructable objects. However, there is a ridiculous flaw with this game. It's not the gameplay, not the graphics, not the controls, not the sound, heck not even the replay value (it's not high but it's not low). Give up? It has no secret characters or other rewards. not even one secret character is in this game. there are no other rewards. if you go through that one mode with the special missions (which I forgot the name of the mode) and beat them you don't get any rewards period. If Capcom ever makes another game based on this comic book, they better have some secrets to put in the game. I like the game, but if I were you, due to the flaw, I would to get this game, but don't spend a ridiculous amount of money on it. it might not be worth that much unless you a collector looking for every game made for the Dreamcast.