Scrapland

by Enlight

Product Features

• 3rd-person action-adventure game set in spectacular science-fiction world
• Open-structure narrative; build and pilot ships with hundreds of permutations
• GTA3-style emergent action; 15 character types with unique abilities
• Combat and racing with customizable gunships; 3D sound FX
• Dynamic character switching; exciting multi-player mayhem

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00068JIFO
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches ; 8 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 8, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,041 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

From the Manufacturer

Scrapland has an extremely unique free-form style of play that capitalizes on the success of games like GTA3, yet takes the action one step further. --Executive Producer American McGee

Game Overview

SCRAPLAND is a third-person action-adventure game set in a stunningly beautiful and futuristic world occupied by an amazing array of robotic characters. The play experience is driven by a solidly engaging, sometimes humorous adventure narrative. The game mechanic combines proven GTA3 style emergent action with an immersive storyline, diversity of player actions, and complete freedom of movement through the world. Throughout the game the player can: transform into any of 15 character types inheriting unique abilities, build and pilot ships with hundreds of permutations, engage in explosive combat, participate in life-on-the-line races, and freely explore a truly dynamic and living world.

Key Features

A spectacular science fiction world: Scrapland presents the player with one of the most highly detailed and visually stunning video game worlds ever seen. From the luminous skyscrapers of Downtown to the treacherous caverns of the Scrapyard, this is world that begs to be explored.

Combat and racing with customizable gunships: Steal, borrow, build, and fly any and every type of space ship you can imagine. Literally hundreds of different varieties of ships are at your disposal in the world of Scrapland. Outfit your ship with the most powerful engines, most devastating weapons, and then test it in life-or-death combat against other pilots.

Dynamic character switching: Scrapland offers unparalleled freedom to play however, and as whomever, you wish. Instantly and seamlessly switch between over a dozen character types, automatically inheriting new abilities. Gain unfettered access to off-limit areas, deceive foes, and employ unique powers at the click of a button.

Multiplayer mayhem: Few games deliver such a spectacular single player experience and integrate hardcore multiplayer mayhem like Scrapland. Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, and other multiplayer modes allow you to import ships built in single player to online arenas.

Product Description

Scrapland is 3rd-person action/adventure in a robot city where mysteriuous "deaths" are occuring. The game combines quirky humor and great combat for an incredible science-fiction adventure unlike anything you've seen before! You play D-Tritus, a robot who's just started working as a journalist in the all-robot city of Chimera. Murders are rare in Chimera; the Great Database stores everyone's design, essentially "resurrecting" them when they're destroyed. But a serial killer has been deleting the victims' details before destroying them, and D-Tritus is out to find out who, and why. Fantastic level designs will thrill you as you explore a world inside a world -- Chimera is full of surprises and unexpected pleasures Fun multiplayer action as you engage in arena combat to compete in wild races through the city

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful game - Horrible controls, December 12, 2005

By 

jocasta "cq94" (Oneonta, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scrapland (CD-ROM)

What a shame, The story seems great, the graphics are amazing, everything was extremely well thought out - except for the controls - (PC version) for some reason the X axis is extremely choppy - I tried to change the sensitivity but it did not help at all. Also you can invert the mous but its universal so it inverts for both ship and character - this is a problem if you play one way on the ship and another with a person - A real shame - could have been one of the great 3rd person games but is barely playable due to the controls.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loads of atmosphere and creativity., April 21, 2005

By 

J. M Quiggins "Sole_Fish" (Owensboro, Ky. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scrapland (CD-ROM)

Yes, American Mcgee did not 'make' this game like he did Alice (more or less). However, the end product was his to polish and ultimately produce. And, he was willing to put his name on it because he felt it was of the utmost quality. And, i trust his judgement. He's never let me down. As far as gameplay, this one is very high on my list. The manueverability of the character(s) is wonderful. The variety of playable characters is outstanding. The adventure mixed in with action plays out sweet. The graphics are very colorful and top notch. The way they drop you into the game with virtually nothing to go on as far as plot and where the plot may go was done with a touch of class as well. I totally disagree with anyone who says this is value bin stuff. It most certainly is not. But, the price seems to b going there anyway. Underrated program with a high level of re-playability. No installation issues. No bugs that I've found. And no terminal crashes. Free and open play in a lot of the game (though, not all of it). I have to say, on just about every level, this game is as high quality as they come. Unless your idea is simply to blow something's head off just to see the different variations of how the head explodes. Granted, that can be fun, but very shallow. This game is far from shallow.

18 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Beutiful, but bad., January 27, 2005

By 

Redeyes - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scrapland (CD-ROM)

First of all I want to say that though I was disappointed with this game, it is not ALL bad, well at least not MOSTLY bad, well ok its pretty bad now that I think about it.

When I first saw scrapland it looked like a fun adventure game in the style of Beyond Good And Evil (HIGHLY recommendable), with an intriguing storyline, unique gameplay, and cute characters reminiscent to the still-upcoming film ROBOTS.

And so I use some of my still warm Christmas money to purchase a copy, gleefully taking it home and ogling over the excellent manual (hi-gloss, full color pages!). Popping it in the DVD-ROM drive at home I admire the short EULA that is understandable enough, and install it. Starting up the game I am greeted by several cute beginning videos and an awesome 3D-menu depicting the asteroid that your adventures surround. a short load time later (and indeed it is short loads) an ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL environment greets me, one so good that I couldn't believe it was playing sooo smoothly on my machine (celeron 1.2 Ghz, 256 megs of RAM, a dvd-rom drive and a Nvidea Geforce 5700 LE). However this is where what would be, up to this point, just about THE perfect game ends. Beginning the story a loveable, goofy, somewhat Jar-Jar-ish robot greets you, showing you the sights and his hard earned (and still being paid for) spaceship. soon after this, you are told to take-over your friends body! Essentially stealing it (because nobody dies in the game, you just have to pay for more "lives") from someone who has done nothing but befriend you. soon after your next order of business is to destroy several cops, both in ships and outside, later to cheat and steal, lie, etc. All completely without remorse or any morality at all. Done with complete innocents for all intensive purposes. Now this may not be a problem to you. You may say a game is a game. That it's not real. However I like my good-guys to be good and my bad, well, bad. The people who are supposedly the "bad guys" are little worse than you! Thus there is a feeling of "what's the point?". And so I became so disenfranchised by it that I quit in disgust. Coming back several times over the next few days I played it a bit at a time to see if there was ANY redeeming qualities to the story. There weren't any. Eventually I settled to flying around the city slowly building up my credits in the only legit way I could find, shooting bugs. However with the main story out of the picture I found that there wasn't a way to get any new ship-plans. And so even that had a "what's the point?" to it after a time.

I close by saying if you like Grand Theft Auto and the like then maybe this game is for you. If you want a game with cute, admirable, nobel characters, where evil is evil, and good good, then stay away like this is the plague. Personally I plan on selling my copy.

Hope this helps any who might yet make my mistake.

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