Customer Reviews

Metal Dungeon

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Overall, a huge disappointment. The AI stinks and the combat system is terrible. Graphics are the only decent part but cannot overcome serious flaws in the game ... keep this game at arms length.

I can't believe how bad this game is. All the previews and demos made it look great. Then I actually bought the game and was completely disappointed.

The graphics are ok, though too polygonal and plastic for my liking. The gameplay is beyond simple, just walk around a randomly generated dungeon and kill things. Combat is handled automatically by the computer, or you can do some basic manual control to fight the enemies off, but not much.

There is literally no plot. You just hack around the dungeons killing things.

Many people have said it already: this game is repetitive. Much of the game uses the same graphics. The "real time battle system" is novel at first but gets boring after a while. The game has decent music but it gets old after a while. Like I said the repitition kills it.

What the game has going for it is randomness. You won't get bored exploring the dungeon, because it's always different. The item chests are all random, so you could get stuck with bad equipment, or get lucky and find something cool.
There's also some strategy to the game. You get to make up a party of up to five characters, and you get to pick the class for each of them. (You can also pick a face type, and alter the body shape, but these features are kinda a joke.) There are also five other "hidden" classes you can change to part way through the game.

One cool thing is when your party dies their bodies are put into a cyrogenic morgue thing, and you have to start a new party to retrieve them. Only problem is it's to easy to just load your game. Just be sure to save often.

Bottom line: this game has it's good points... but they don't out weigh the bad ones. Probably the only people who'd like this game are those who play Diablo II for hours and hours, just trying to find items and make characters.

This is almost too bland to call it an RPG. It is highly repetitive. Level after level you combat the enemy, collect some stuff, repeat ad naseam. This is the second worst game for Xbox (see Pulse Racer for first place on this one).

I live in Japan, and since there's about 20 games out for the Xbox here, I picked up this one. I have to say that this is the worst game I've played for the Xbox, and the only one I've traded in. I never trade in games, but this one is something that belongs on pre-PSX hardware. The dungeons are all flat paneled, straight out of Wolfenstein. The fight scenes are slow and repetitive, and get boring after twenty minutes. Characters aren't very interestingly drawn, which isn't too bad, since there are no central characters anyways. The story is non-existent. Even the CGI is ugly. It entertained me for half an hour, and I spent 2000 yen on it, so it scrapes up one star.

For starters, im a huge rpg fan, I have Gamecube, Ps2, and Xbox. And honestly xbox is the most expensive paperweight ive ever purchased. Metal Dungeon Has excellent graphics, But the battle system is basically automatic, and all you do is clear out dungeons full of cyborgs, so basically youre just doing the same thing over and over and over again. I got this game because i was hoping maybe xbox put out a decent game besides Halo. I suggest to anyone not to mke the same mistake i did, and if you're going to buy any xbox games, read EGM and make sure its not junk :)

I bought this game at Fry's Electronics in 2004 when XBOX was popular, and before XBOX 360 hit the market. I've always had an interest in RPGs so I had to get it, and for $20 it was a deal. This game somewhat reminds me of "Wizardry V: The Heart of the Maelstrom", the SNES version. You go into the maze, you train, find upgrades, go to next level. Repeat. Only trouble is, the Plot in that SNES game is 100x better than this XBOX game. Metal Dungeon has a really terrible game plot. To me, it doesn't make sense. It talks about the "Gods of Magic" but yet the final boss is the "Demon Lord?" I don't see any resemblance. I guess. So anyway, There are 10 areas, and they repeat once you reach area 11, which mirrors area 1, area 12 mirroring area 2, etc. etc. etc. with the difference of the monsters you fight have been trained. Once you reach area 100, the final area, there is no limit to how far you can train since the boss fights give you insane amount of EXP. For example, in the Final Fantasy franchise, your characters are commonly limited to "Level 99". Well, my Artsranger is currently at Level 3,440. Of course this was achieved with nearly 500 hours of game play spanned over 6 real-time years.

A very good game to play on those restless nights if you like random generating mazes and repetition; and, of course, the suspense on how high you can train your men to.

This game has no plot whatsoever and is the same boring grey throught-out the game. Capcom didn't put enough of efort into th is and could have done better.

20 bucks at block busters.... i busted it reel good after 20 minetes

The most boring game ever... whichever executive decided to release this turkey should be fired. If you're thinking about buying this thing, play Dark Alliance again instead.