Metal Fatigue

The combots are like god units and have nearly infinite combinations. The three nations/factions are balanced and have specific power and weakness. There's Rimtech- with balanced kinetic and energy based weapons-Rimtech also has a nice variety of long/short range weapons.
Mil-Agro- mostly close range kenetic weapons. They're long range parts are few but effective
Neuropa- has mostly energy weapons- they have cloaking and self repairing parts

There are two weapon types Kentic-Physical
and energy-which is energy powered parts- get this game and play it


The game breaks all the rules....   June 13, 2003
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First off, let me say that I have played almost all of the RTS's out there, and this one has to be the best.
In Metal Fatigue, you build your standard array of units of any war game (tanks, artillary, missile trucks,etc.) but, the main alure of the game comes from the Combots: giant mechanized robots that beat the living ... out of one-another.
Any fan of Anime will want to pick up this game post-haste. It is very satisfying to whatch your custom built robots obliterate the enemies. Thats the first way it defys the laws of RTS', you can totally customize your combot, the arms, legs, torso, and pilots. You can salvage enemy parts and reasearch them. After that, you can construct combots with your opponents own technology.
The second rule that it breaks is there isn't just one level to fight on. There's three: orbit, ground, and underground. All of my freinds dislike the game because of this, well, that's because they cannot thing in 3 dimensions. You have to co-ordinate attacks from all levels simoultaneously to effectively kill your opponent. Underground is particularly difficult because your combots cannot venture there. So its back to good 'ol tanks and artillary. Orbit is fun because there is no fog-of-war there, so you can see everything. And land is just like in most other games, fog regrows, and all units can go there.
This is a great game and anyone who likes anime or giant robot action should own it.