Play Metal Head Online

Summary

I fire up Metal Head on the 32X and instantly feel the weight of a fully texture‑mapped 3‑D mech cockpit. The first‑person view puts me behind a hulking cyborg, while a pounding heavy‑metal soundtrack drives every firefight.

The HUD is a tech‑junkie’s dream: a power‑gauge health bar, a countdown timer, radar‑style map with my mech marked as a triangle and enemy units pulsing as circles. Voice‑acted commanders bark mission objectives before each sortie, and I can toggle between several camera angles to keep my aim true.

From bomb‑scarred city streets to scorched farms, blackened forests and bullet‑riddled suburbs, each level feels like a war‑torn playground. Chain‑guns, missiles and radar tracking let me carve a path through endless waves of cyber‑troops, hovercraft and ground attack vehicles, all while the on‑screen panel flashes miss alerts and weapon info.

Storyline

Metal Head, the 1995 Sega 32X shooter, is set five years after the World Federation was founded. Though the Federation Police’s armed wing created the bipedal combat machines known as Metal Heads to keep the peace, their success only spurred further militarization across the member nations. A sudden terrorist uprising, equipped with their own Metal Heads, seizes an entire country and plunges the region into chaos. The player assumes the role of a Federation pilot, dropping into a tiny border town with a squad of fellow Metal Head operators.

From that outpost the team pushes inland, battling enemy mechs and fortified positions until they reach the occupied capital. Their mission is to retake the city and restore Federation control. The campaign’s linear progression mirrors the desperate march from the frontier to the heart of the rebellion.