The controls are absolutely smooth and easy to get ahold of, though it may take a bit of practice to get accustomed to running about on the ceiling. The M-308 is the ultimate in robot obliteration, itself armed with a fast shooting plasma cannon which it can fire in all four cardinal directions and hydraulics which allow it to jump quite high. The first level tune is surprisingly upbeat for a semi-serious atmosphere, but later tunes cast a more dramatic mood the farther in you travel.Īs for the game itself, Metal Storm plays akin to the sidescrolling run-and-guns of gaming’s silver age where your ammo is infinite and your powers considerable, but the slightest mistake would totally blow your game. The music also fits in quite well, even if nothing’s particularly catchy. The only oddity is the orange-and-raspberry palette of your M-308 when the few pieces of official artwork portray its chassis as white, but the visual style is otherwise consistent and appealing.
The graphics are well-detailed and incredibly bright, with smoothly-animated characters and backgrounds which utilize interesting scrolling effects when contrasted against the foreground. Every single thing is mechanical with nary an organism in sight, with Cyberg itself essentially one massive Star Wars-infringing steel death globe, albeit one with a vast colorful interior. Your protagonist, the M-308 bipedal gunner robot, fights against the many different mechs guarding the core of the Cyberg station. These two paragraphs promise a science-fiction actionfest, and Metal Storm‘s primary tenet of design is future technology. Your mission is to enter Cyberg using the most sophisticated weaponry available, the M-308 Gunner, and unlock that self-destruct device! Even if the device can be manually activated, there is still only a slim chance that Earth can be saved. The system’s self-destruct device could stop the LaserGun, but it has mysteriously jammed and is aimed at Earth. It was originally designed to protect Earth from hostile aliens, but, due to a computer malfunction, is systematically destroying all the planets in the Solar System! Most recently the Earth Nation watched helplessly as Neptune exploded.
The powerful LaserGun on the planet Pluto’s battle station “Cyberg” is wreaking havoc. The year is 2501, and the dawning of a new century has brought mankind to the brink of disaster.
There exists a short backstory which is as follows: While the company gained a notorious reputation due to the punishing difficulty of the R-Type space shooter series and the Famicom-only horror platformer Holy Diver, Metal Storm is actually a fair game that provides the whole package: great aesthetics backed by fun gameplay that isn’t quite like any other 2D action title out there. Irem’s Metal Storm one is of the many unsung games of the NES that showed what the system is capable of.
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