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Shattered Steel

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3.5

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Shattered Steel
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Shattered Steel takes place in a desolate future where humanity is on the verge of extinction. The Core Wars, waged by rival factions for natural resources - and ultimately survival - left society in ruins. Massive industrial conglomerates deploy mechanized mercenary armies to maintain a tenuous ord...
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1996, BioWare, ESRB Rating: Teen...
System requirements
Windows XP or Vista, 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with...
Time to beat
15 hMain
-- Main + Sides
28.5 h Completionist
21.5 h All Styles
Description
Shattered Steel takes place in a desolate future where humanity is on the verge of extinction. The Core Wars, waged by rival factions for natural resources - and ultimately survival - left society in ruins. Massive industrial conglomerates deploy mechanized mercenary armies to maintain a tenuous order. You're a hotshot runner pilot. You've neutralized hundreds of pirates and rival ops on over 22 worlds. Your weapon is the lethal Planet Runner which can navigate any terrain and strike with devastating firepower. You mission is to cleanse the planet from alien forces and restore order.

Save your species as you engage in fast-paced mechanized combat in the single-player campaign containing 50 adrenaline-pounding missions and arm your Planet Runner with blazing firepower - over 25 armaments, including gatling guns, guided missiles, fuel-air mortars and plasma cannons.
  • Become a mech pilot and fight off mysterious alien invaders
  • Various mission types from search and destroy to escorting convoys
  • A great number of weapons and mech upgrades

Shattered Steel©1996 BioWare Corp. ™ Interplay Entertainment Corp. All Rights Reserved.

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manual (20 pages) reference card HD wallpaper
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Minimum system requirements:

Mac notice: The game will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.

Mac notice: The game will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.

This game is powered by DOSBox.
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Time to beat
15 hMain
-- Main + Sides
28.5 h Completionist
21.5 h All Styles
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Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
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{{'1996-09-30T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
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Size:
460 MB
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ESRB Rating: Teen (Animated Blood, Animated Violence)

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Posted on: May 6, 2009

Prator

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Games: 206 Reviews: 29

Fun, but obviously flawed (mild spoilers)

This game was my first foray into the world of Mech simulators, and while I did enjoy it, I was not sufficiently impressed by this example of the genre. It's a good game, but there are some rather large and irriating problems with it that irritate me too much to give it more than a 3. STORY (3/5): The story was not very deep. For the most part, it seemed more like there was just a sort of shallow plot to move you from mission A to mission B, and while the voice acting introducing each mission was nice, the disconnect between the mission briefings and the mission action was rather wide. The story wasn't BAD, it just didn't leave much of an impression on me. It also holds a few inconsistencies regarding how your AI commander behaves; if these AINIC models keep trying to kill their pilots or develop other mental instabilities, why do I even have one giving me commands? Is the Corporation's budget so small that I can't just get a live, sane person to tell me what to do? Also, why am I ALWAYS fighting alone against massive armies if I'm supposed to be part of a larger war effort? SOUNDS (4/5): The music was good, when I had the time to listen to it. The sound effects were nice too. It wasn't anything spectacular, but I did like the sound of missiles launching... VISUALS (3/5): Given that this was made in 1996, I probably shouldn't complain too much about this, but the visuals were not great. With the gamma on default settings, some levels were almost too dark to see in; turn the gamma up, and suddenly it's always noon in the Sahara. The draw distances were bad, too, as indicated by all the times that I got shot at by enemies who were too far away for me to see. Then there's the fact that there's only two kinds of explosion... but at least all the movements of 3D models looked okay. I'll give this category a passing grade on account of the time it was made, but a game with this many visual problems would never make it in today's market. GAMEPLAY (3/5): Shooting stuff is always fun, but there were several things that marred the experience for me in this game, the most prominent of which is hit detection. Unless yo're using seeker missiles, it is ridiculously hard to hit a long-distance target with a flying explosive. Why? Because at least half your shots will somehow go right through it, that's why. Even if the target is immobile (this includes buildings!), and your targeting reticule is squarely on the target, the missile will often pass through the target and explode harmlessly somewhere on its far side. This can happen with lasers too. And let's not forget the fact that mortar rounds almost never land where you aimed them, usually flying about a kilometer ahead of where your targeting reticule is. As such, winning this game requires a heavy dependence on machines guns, which brings me to my next beef: ammo. Most levels do not give you any way to restore lost ammunition, and since your Pilot Runner is very often given the responsibilty to being a one-man army, you can run out of ammunition suprisingly fast. Laser weapons regenerate over time, but they don't regenerate nearly fast enough to save you if you're in a firefight and run out. Missiles and other weapons do not regenerate, leaving you with some hard choices to make about what weapons to use and where to use them. If you could salvage anything from all the mechs you blow up, this wouldn't be a problem, but you cannot do any such thing. Then there are some weapons which are useless or as dangerous to you as they are to the enemy (mines are nearly useless, rolling mines never roll in a predictable direction, and nukes will blow you up as often as they will the enemy, unless you shoot blindly ahead in the direction of a target you can't see). Compounding all these other difficulties is an end boss who is nearly impossible to kill. I couldn't manage it myself without cheat codes, and did I mention that I hit it once directly with a nuclear missile and failed to destroy it? There is good news, though. The missions are nicely varied, and always intense enough that you never get bored. Panicked, maybe, but never bored. Also, the deformable terrain is a joy to play with; the depth of a crater you can make with a nuke is impressive, and the fact that you can churn up earth with your machine gun is even better: try digging a hole with it, or shoot at a hill until you've leveled it. It's fun! OVERALL: (3/5); Shattered Steel is fun, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone if it wasn't so cheap. If you're keen on buying a shooter/mech sim, you could do worse than this. Than again, you could also probably do better.


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Posted on: March 6, 2010

StarDesk

Verified owner

Games: 3 Reviews: 1

Seriously annoyed

I really can't take playing this game. It may have been great back in the day, but its one of those titles that just doesn't work right on modern day PCs. Trying to play this was so frustrating that I gave up. Combined with the serious fps drops which no in-game nor dosbox settings fixed - it is just impossible to have fun. Not everyone may have the same outcome but that is mine and I care not waste more time on it. There's much better games to play.


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Posted on: April 14, 2012

MrBigMr

Games: 242 Reviews: 1

Dem miniguns and nukes.

This game has the best miniguns of all games ever. Proper umph in the sound and firepower. And the nuke. Why bother with perimeter defences, when you can nuke a hole in a mountain and flank the enemy position?


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Posted on: March 20, 2009

Compulsion

Games: 175 Reviews: 1

A fantastic mech game

I remember loving this game. The enormous, terrain deforming weapons stand out in my mind. They really are dramatic. Unfortunately, the ending is a gigantic cliffhanger with a "Wait for Shattered Steel 2" message. The sequel never came :(


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Posted on: March 21, 2009

szimm

Verified owner

Games: 50 Reviews: 1

i had the disc version...

...of this game back in the day, i remember it had a huge, gamebreaking bug in one of the later levels, one that forced you to use a cheat code to progress. wonder if the GOG team fixed that? anyway, if you like mech games, this one is a classic, nice design, no-nonsense action and a ton of missions. only thing you might complain about is the lack of diversity in the environments. but the 3d cockpit with customizable screens was awesome.


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