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holy ...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is the best! way better then your stupid halo. it has more weapons, longer, and much better graphics. and some of you are saying how good the game is but forgot to pu stars! you are hurting this awsome game!

awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game is awesome great weaponry and has some great vehicles and the bot hjacking thing makes the game even funner. ive had it for awhile now and its still awesome and about half my freinds have this game too.

An Exhilarating Experience with Replay Value

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is an exciting game from start to finish. The third-person shooter is about constant survival and strategy, and yet it is never too serious or too hard. It is "light" entertainment in the middle of a war. It is basically you versus the evil mil bots because the occasional assistance you receive never lasts long. Their are even levels with creatures whom possess an unquenchable thirst for fresh oil to keep you on your toes. The game has a multiplayer mode with no CPUs to battle, but their is still endless replayability as the single-player levels are so much fun to play over and over again. The music is great too.

Metal of arms: Glitch in the game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 16
Date: March 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Everything about this game sucks @$$!!!!! First off the controls are sloppy and the graphics are total crap. The plot is as deep as DONKEY KONG. It takes a million shots to damage one guy. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!

A Gift ....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was a gift for my son and he is continuously playing and thoroughly enjoys it.

Anything but this

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: March 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've begun to lose faith in my subscription to Game Informer, which in its Nov 2003 issue rated the game an 8, maybe an 8.5 out of 10. Girded with such a positive review, I bought the game first day of spring break. One week later, I was so fed up with the sloppy controls and clumsy combat system that I sold it back for a copy of Splinter Cell, a far superior title. About the controls, they're so slow that little Glitch will take damage from stray gunfire before getting out of its way; the animation for changing weapons is so slow that you'll be critically damaged before getting a shot off with the newly selected weapon; Glitch moves too slowly to evade enemies (particularly the regenerating revenenant robots in a later level); finally, adding insult to injury, the aiming controls are so sloppy that you almost have to get in an enemy's face just to shoot it successfully, draining you of much-needed energy. Many games have lackluster control systems, but this one is so bad that it completely debilitates whatever fun could have been derived from the admittedly great idea that this game was. With no titles of the calibre of Ratchet and Clank or Jak II, this, unfortunately, is the best showing of platform shooting that the Gamecube has mustered. Instead, play Nintendo's proprietary titles (Zelda, Mario, Metroid, etc) if you haven't already, along with other hits such as Splinter Cell and the Metal Gear Solid remake, and leave Glitch's trash compactor corpse by the curb.

This game rocks!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: July 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Let me tell you i am the best player at this game. not to brag or anything but i have had this game for about 4 months now and i rule!!! I have unlocked general corrosive in multiplayer and he is the best character ever!

Domo Arigato ,Mr Glitch Roboto

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I liked this game. You die a lot, so don't have a breakdown if you have to start at the checkpoint again, however, you have infinite lives. I love the weapons in the game, especially the explosive ones. Metal Arms Sports good cutscenes. At the beginning, it makes fun of Public Information films, with the history of Iron Star.b BUY THIS GAME. BTW, im 14, no personal info I want to share.

Great fun for 3rd person shooter fans

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game 2 1/2 years ago and am currently playing it again - about halfway through now.

Wow, what fun it still is! No game is perfect, but Metal Arms is a real bundle of fun.

First up is the humor. You have the bleeped-out, ornery sergeant-type for many of the cut scenes. There's the almost cruely comical way enemy soldiers suffer damage - running away, sometimes hiding, yelling "Ouch!", busted arms making them fire randomly into the air as they panic - it's a real laugh. Sometimes you get caught up in the action and don't notice; then you snipe a soldier through your scope, watch him hop around in a panic with a mangled, malfunctioning arm, and just have to giggle.

The environments are very well done and graphics still look good today. There's really no reason to criticize it from a looks standpoint unless you're one of those who recoils in horror because a character occastionally stands on empty air at the edge of a platform, rock, etc.

The variety of weapons is great (most weapons are analogous to real weapons - the mining laser is a, well, laser; the bolt gun is essentially a sniper rifle; core charges are grenades; etc.) and ammo is dropped by defeated enemies or available in crates with enough regularity that you almost never run dry of everything. Plus you can buy more (and upgrades) from the funny weapons dealers (the silent one is named Pockets, and the dealer introduces him with a comment about Pockets maybe going blind, hence the name, and another source of humor). My hands-down favorite is the Recruiter Grenade. Throw it at a big, mean, hard-to-kill enemy and he's instantly reprogrammed to be your personal slave robot, turning on his former alies and blowing everyone away for you (unless he gets whacked himself). The only problem here is that washers, your currency, don't exactly rain down on you and you never seem to have enough.

It lasts quite a while, too, so no 4-hours-and-done problems here, and you can take your time and look around for hidden items. There's not a lot of problem-solving beyond basically figuring out what's needed to get through a stage, and it's usually pretty easy to figure out, but you do have to think a little and look carefully.

Aiming is the only real flaw of this game. You have to fire with your right finger while aiming with your right thumb. This is hard for my brain to wire and even by the end of the game I find myself moving around to aim more than moving my targeting reticule.

I highly recommend this game. It's funny, the action is good, the graphics are good, the environments look cool, and it actually has a reasonable plot.

Freekin awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is the funnest thing I've played in years. I've had this game since the week it came out and Im still not tired of it. You get all sorts of cool weapons and you can drive some kick @$$ vehicles. They also have some funny jokes every now and then. If you like explosions, GET THIS!

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