Metal Max: Wild Eyes

Metal Max: Wild Eyes
Metal Max Wild Eyes
Developer(s)Crea-Tech
Publisher(s)ASCII Entertainment
Director(s)Hiroshi Miyaoka
Artist(s)Atsuji Yamamoto
SeriesMetal Max
Platform(s)Dreamcast
Release
  • JP: Cancelled
Genre(s)Role-playing

Metal Max: Wild Eyes (メタルマックス ワイルドアイズ, Metaru Makkusu Wuirudo Aizu) is a cancelled role-playing video game of the Metal Max series and was originally planned to be published on Dreamcast by ASCII Entertainment in winter 2000.[1] The game started development in 1999 with a tentative title "Metal Max Overdrive", which was announced at Tokyo Game Show.[2] Owing to ASCII withdrawn from home video game console business[3] and many other reasons, the game was never released.[4] Similar as its predecessor Metal Max 2, its characters also featured three people with a dog. Officially announced plot is "the grandest love story of the series".[4] Metal Max Wild Eyes is the first game of series to feature 3D graphics. The next game in the Metal Max series that was actually released on PlayStation 2, Metal Saga, was released in 2005, which also featured 3D graphics.[5]

Metal Max Xeno released in 2018 on PS4 and PS Vita is based on cancelled Metal Max: Wild Eyes.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ "METAL MAX WILD EYES [BETA SEGA Dreamcast]" (in Polish). SEGA-SKY. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
  2. ^ IGN Staff (September 29, 1999). "Metal Max Comes to the Dreamcast". IGN. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  3. ^ 稲元徹也. 総勢100名以上の“ハンター”たちが阿佐ヶ谷地下に集結！ 苦節17年の苦労話を開発陣が語る「メタルマックス・トークライブ ～メタルマックスを創った男たち～」レポート (in Japanese). 4Gamer.net. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  4. ^ a b "MetalMax概要４" (in Japanese). Crea-Tech. Archived from the original on 23 June 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  5. ^ 豊臣和孝 (2005-06-30). "賞金稼ぎとして自由奔放に生きていくRPG 「メタルサーガ ～砂塵の鎖～」" (in Japanese). Impress Corporation. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
  6. ^ "Metal Max Xeno announced for PS4, PS Vita [Update 3]". 24 October 2017.
  7. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: 『METAL MAX Xeno』(メタルマックスゼノ) Final Trailer. YouTube.