Metal Warriors

The Good
Play Metal Warriors for the head-to-head mode. Jumping from mech to mech in the heat of battle while your friend frantically chases you down is the meat of this game. The robots look neat and do some cool things you just don't see every day, from the bridge making tank to the dive bombing flyer.

I find myself getting into the single-player too, because there is room for goofing around on some of the levels, but there is one sadistic flaw I'll mention next...

The Bad
Don't play this game for the single-player unless you are a gaming master, because there are a few continues and that's IT. Losing all my lives on a single level after an hour of perfect play was all the pain I could take. I had to see the secret end-credit level on an emulator.

My other gripes are minor: Some of the controls are a bummer (the spider especially is a terror for those of us who are human); the opening is embarrassingly poor; and the pilots can't shoot the mechs and are missing frames of animation.

The Bottom Line
You're this little pilot and you get into big mechs and fight, then jump out before you die and get into other big mechs and fight some more. For anyone into giant robots, what more could you ask for?