In summary to my experience with it, and yours may have been different, by the time I had reached the first boss fight I was quick to end my romp through this game’s somewhat diminished outlook. The game itself was rendered as being a faithful companion to the Heavy Metal magazine, along with the cartoon features that preceded it, yet I had trouble believing that seeing as most of what Heavy Metal promotes is sex, violence, and the occasional drug usage.
In part, the game play staggers as an early attempt at something you might find in a game like Prince of Persia, of the more recent variety, and in that sense, you could say that the game wanted to let you do a slew of moves that were in some cases acrobatic, and in others, very basic and unappealing. The story itself is redundant, in that you play as a woman, whose costume is pretty much the equivalent of most leather and bare skin, fighting against an evil force of sorts. My attention was drawn away from mostly due to the fact that I just wanted to watch her peal off her top in the Heavy Metal tradition. The game really began to fall apart during the boss fight where you were forced to slowly shimmy over pools of radioactive muck while being attacked by flying enemies, at which time you could not defend yourself.
The sound design was lack luster, and the game did little to draw you in unless you were busy watching the heroine’s rear end, in many cases being pushed into the camera’s view during various points. The game was essentially a rip-off of Tomb Raider in the same sense that Tomb Raider is a constant series of rip-offs of itself. The game used the Quake 3 engine, and as good as it looked back then, didn’t quite make the game any more bearable. Unless you’re a diehard fan of the Heavy Metal canon, or just curious, you can pick up the game at your leisure via E-Bay, but otherwise I wouldn’t recommend it.
