Metal Arms: Glitch in the System is a third-person shooter action-adventure video game, developed by American team Swingin' Ape Studios, published by Vivendi Universal Games and their subsidiary Sierra Entertainment and released in 2003. The game follows a robot named Glitch as he joins forces with the Droids in their fight against General Corrosive and his Milbots.
Gameplay
The player plays as a robot named Glitch on a planet called “Iron Star”. A group of evil robots are attempting to take over the planet.
In total, there are forty two levels in the story campaign. The main environments the player traverses include cave systems and cities. There is a multiplayer mode, in which the game becomes a third-person shooter game.
Swingin' Ape Studios was a video game development studio founded in July 2000 by Steve Ranck, Mike Starich and Scott Goffman after leaving Midway Home Entertainment. They had just completed the water-based arcade racer Hydro Thunder. Metal Arms was the studio's only release. The company was acquired by and integrated into Blizzard Entertainment in May 2005 after cancelling development on StarCraft: Ghost. The property is currently owned by Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Reception
The game received "generally favorable" reviews, according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. IGN stated that "The game successfully merges a light-hearted storyline with some seriously intense combat, a good measure of strategy and a fun multiplayer mode."
During the 7th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated Metal Arms for "Console Action/Adventure Game of the Year".