Comments on: Drift To Experience: Metal Drift

By: Nahkatakkimies

Nahkatakkimies — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:03:23 +0000

Metal Drift is now available for preorder on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/32200/

Worth 7,19 EYPOs?

By: Hmm-Hmm.

Hmm-Hmm. — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:00:58 +0000

I know, I’m late commenting on this. Can’t even go away from the net for four days without missing things like.. this.

If it were available on the mac, this would be so very much an impulse ‘must-buy’ for me. As it is, I’m hoping against hope it’ll have a non-Steam-plugged demo. Maybe it can even convince me to buy into the whole Steam thing.

By: Lucky Main Street

Lucky Main Street — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:37:23 +0000

@Jim re: both videos at once: synched explosions!

By: Rustkill

Rustkill — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:06:48 +0000

The game that this reminded me of most is Locus; the first game I ever bought that came on a “Compact Disc” :O

Complete with the sci-fi sports theme, hovering vehicles, shooting of metal balls into goals and zapping of opponents.

By: Wedge

Wedge — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:24:22 +0000

Oh OK, checked the forums and it’s coming out over Steam now too/instead? Interesting…

By: ordteapot

ordteapot — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:46:45 +0000

Also: is anyone else having nostalgia for that crummy hovercraft game that came with Win95?

By: Sajmn

Sajmn — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:44:28 +0000

Somehow, the arenas seemed too small for really clever maneuvering or combat. Looks very interesting though. The fact that you can see your vehicle makes it that much cooler.

By: ordteapot

ordteapot — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:44:06 +0000

Someday Kieron will be captured in a games-journo-war guerrilla action, and, as Their mad scientists are busy readying themselves to pick his brain for all the dark secrets it holds, the nurse makes a startling discovery: “Oh shit!,” he was actually a purpose-built obscure-music reference-generator robot — from the future.

Seriously though, they don’t even have a wikipedia page.

By: Noc

Noc — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:02:40 +0000

It reminds me of a really, really old game that I am forgetting the name of. Something like “Locus” or “Locust,” which was essentially the same “first-person vehicle-driven ball game with shooty,” except that it was in all of these crazy, geometric three-dimensional arenas.

It was pretty great, at least to my 10 year old self. Hmm.

By: WarFalci

WarFalci — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:41:43 +0000

Reminds me of DeathDrome. Ah… good old memories. I just hope it comes out cheap as hell and with a good single player portion. Nobody deserves multiplayer only games.

By: Larington

Larington — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:26:41 +0000

I saw that first image and for just a second I thought I was looking at a new Descent title… Awwww.

By: Wedge

Wedge — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:13:07 +0000

Oh and the cockpit isn’t fully gyroscopic and rotatable, the vehicles are just hovering, so you can turn them without altering their vector unless you apply thrust. Y’know, like asteroids. I think there’s a bit of wiggle room for making aiming easier though, works really nice.