Metal Drift Reviews

The fast-paced, arena action of Metal Drift will easily satisfy your craving for a quick action game, and the multiplayer is phenomenal. The graphics are nice and the framerate is steady. The controls take some getting used to, but are actually quite good. There's absolutely no story whatsoever in Metal Drift, but the announcer during games is actually more entertaining than you'd think. With 5 arenas, and a leveling system that allows players to unlock new weapons and tank upgrades, Metal Drift is an absolutely excellent first-person tank soccer sim.

Dead Game. Cannot register or launch, (practically) no players if you can.

This is an excellent game... by far the most rewarding in my collection. The controls are quite difficult to master, but I wouldn't have them any other way. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who enjoys an adrenalin rush, is capable of working as a team, and enjoys FPS games. Some others have complained of the levelling system; I think it's actually beneficial. Ensuring that noobs have to use easy-to-use weapons (e.g. being able to spray) and helpful abilities (like heal) means they're less likely to drag down their teams as they learn. It also gives a sense of satisfaction and purpose to the game.

The game is dead now atm. I played the game before then now it's dead without servers being onlined. You may end up playing with the bots if you are lucky to log in. Spend your money on something other than this game. Move on. It was part of the bundle I bought years ago.

It's a mediocre sports game that only plays online... and there's nobody online to play it with. Hang around all day and you won't find a full server. Thanks to its unlock system, when you do find an opponent you'll be playing at a horrible disadvantage until you also get all the unlocks - but there's pretty much no incentive to take the punishment until then. A complete waste of money.

Metal Drift is a fun game for the very few hours you will playing it. It is a third person combat car game where you need to kill the opponent and take the ball in middle to score with it. Don't expect to play this over the net since there is never any servers running and if there is it is only 1 other person. I would highly recommend getting the 4-pack twice and play with 7 irl friends that is where this game gets fun. If on sale I would highly recommend buying it to try it out other than that there is far better games out there.

This small little "Capture the flag with hover tanks"-game is real fun! Nice graphic, good arenas, a level-up-system with new weapons and tank improvements. For practice and offline play it also includes bots. For a small price this game is good to fill small time gaps. Just try the demo.

Hey everyone. I bought this game quite some time ago now and enjoyed playing it over LAN at home with friends and against bots. I'd like to tell you what changes were made in the last update to this game, but I can't because the devs decided we now have to create an online account with password in order to play at all. It would've been nice to give people the option to continue playing over LAN without forcing players online with strangers. I enjoy playing multiplayer online sometimes, but there are plenty of times that I just don't want to. I enjoyed things the way they were. If you know nothing about the game, it's basically like the old Car Wars arena play from Steve Jackson Games, but these vehicles hover. I enjoyed the game a lot for what it's worth, but if you want to play you need to get used to the idea that an online account is required. I can't review any of the changes since the last major update that added the account requirement with no option to bypass. As it is, if you like cars and weapons in an arena, this is okay... but wait for it to go on sale. I do recommend the game overall with the notable provisions stated above. My kids didn't really like playing it very much. They'd rather play a lot of other games instead of this. I have deleted the game from my system, but if my kids ever change their minds about playing... maybe I'll make an account for it. Maybe. Sometimes I just want to play over LAN with people I know, but the devs excluded that option. Too bad.

Wha is good on a Multiplayer game? The challenge of Player VS Player, correct? And what if you don't have friends to play with? Oh well, there must be a story mode, or at least a flat setting to set you up for action, right? So... what might go wrong here? Well Metal Drift firstly needs to register to play. I bought the game guys.... hello????? Why did you had to force us to register to play. Gee bad move, whatever. After the whole proccess I logged in to find what? Almost empty servers and.... no story mode. So If I wont convince a firend of mine to buy the game, I can not actually play it, right? Well guess what, this is a NO from me. It is a very VERY rare thing putting a thumbs down on a game. But I can't play it. No seriously... if I had some friends playign with me I could give it a shot and recommend it on discount. But now what can i do?! By the way, graphics are not something special... gameplay is average, can't tell if it is boring or not though, SINCE I CAN NOT PLAY ALONE.... It's a no for me and I am really sorry. I know that fanboys will come and rate this down but I don't really care. Really, think about it. Spending money on a game you can not enjoy, how would YOU feel?

Contrary to what was mentioned in another review and despite the lack of info on the store page, this game has no offline mode. It is an online-only DRM game. There is bot and LAN support, but you must still create an account with Black Jacket (email required) and log into their servers in order to play. If your internet connection is down, or if Black Jacket's servers are down, the game will not run at all. Further, Black Jacket has no publicly-viewable privacy policy that I could find, so be mindful of what they do with your personal data. It's good that there is at least bot support, because you will have a very difficult time finding anyone online to play with outside of special events. Unfortunately, the bot AI is very simplistic and rarely uses any sort of team tactics like passing and coordination, so you won't get much enjoyment at all if you're planning on playing solo. The core gameplay is fun - basically soccer with tanks. If you do have a group of friends to play with, you may get some enjoyment out of it, but I wouldn't recommend the game to anyone else.