Metal Max (series)

Metal Max Series
Genres	Role-playing game
Developers	Crea-Tech
Publishers	Data East Success Enterbrain
Creators	Hiroshi Miyaoka
Artists	Atsuji Yamamoto
Composers	Satoshi Kadokura
Platforms	NES, SNES, GBA, PS2, NDS, Wii
Platform of origin	NES
Year of inception	1991
Official website	Metal Max Seires Metal Saga Seires

Metal Max (メタルマックス^?) is a series of post-apocalyptic, vehicle combat, role-playing video games dating back to 1991. They have been developed by Crea-Tech and released for the NES, Super NES, PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS platforms. As the trademark dispute, series use Metal Saga (メタルサーガ^?) to release games until get trademark rights again.

Gameplay

The series is an early example of open-ended, non-linear gameplay. They lack a predetermined story path, but the player is instead given the choice of what missions to follow in whichever order while being able to visit any place in the game world at any time.^[1][2][3] The ending can be determined by the player, who can alter the ending through their actions, can complete the game at almost any time, and continue playing the game even after the ending.^[3] Some of the games give the player the freedom to complete the game almost immediately after starting it, particularly Metal Saga, which could be completed with a full ending scenario just minutes into the game, making it the shortest possible RPG.^[4]

The character classes, such as a mechanic or soldier, could be chosen for the player characters, who would fight in turn-based battles either on foot or using tanks. The player could create tanks, customize and make a variety of modifications to them, remodel and enhance each part, strengthen the defense, repair damanged parts, and give them more shells.^[1][2][3]

Title	System	Year
Metal Max	Nintendo Entertainment System	1991
Metal Max 2	Super Nintendo Entertainment System	1993
Metal Max Returns	Super Nintendo Entertainment System	1995
Metal Saga	PlayStation 2	2005
Metal Saga: Hagane no Kisetsu	Nintendo DS	2006
Metal Saga Mobile	Mobile Phones	2007[5]
Metal Saga New Frontier	Web game	2010[5]
Metal Max 3	Nintendo DS	2010
Metal Max 2: Reloaded	Nintendo DS	2011

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Metal Max (Translation), Virtual Console, Nintendo
2. ^ ^{a b} Metal Max 2 (Translation), Virtual Console, Nintendo
3. ^ ^{a b c} Metal Max (Translation), Crea-Tech
4. ^ Metal Saga - Impression, RPGamer, Spring 2006
5. ^ ^{a b} Anar-Isil. "系列简史 | STEEL RALLY" (in zh-cn). STEEL RALLY. http://metalmax.org/mms/history. Retrieved April 5, 2011. 

External links

• Official website of Metal Max series:メタルマックス2:リローデッド(Japanese)
• Official website of Metal Saga series:METAL SAGA(Japanese)
• Official website of Metal Saga New Frontier:メタルサーガ・ニューフロンティア(Japanese)
• Official website of developer:有限会社クレアテック(Japanese)