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Instruction booklet · December 1993

Metal Marines

Real Time Strategy (RTS)Strategy1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

Metal Marines is an isometric strategy game. Controlling one side of a conflict, the player must wage a campaign across several islands to defeat Zorgeuf and his lieutenants. The player controls logistics of the base to ensure that there are the necessary assets to wage war. On each map, the player places three underground command bases, if all of these are destroyed the battle is lost.

Specifications

Released
December 1993
Developer
Namco
Publisher
Namco
Players
1
Genre
Real Time Strategy (RTS) · Strategy
Rating
Pre-ESRB
Themes
Science fiction · Warfare
View
Bird view / Isometric

What the magazines said

EGM · not on record yet

Players
60/100 (5 ratings)
GameRankings
69.62%
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