Classic Game Room - METAMORPHIC FORCE arcade game review

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Classic Game Room - METAMORPHIC FORCE arcade game review

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Classic Game Room reviews METAMORPHIC FORCE from Konami released in 1993 being played on a Jamma cabinet. Experience one of the greatest video games ever created as you play one of four heroes that transforms into a BEAST. Metamorphic Force is an incredible side scrolling beat 'em up where your furry, mullet-clad heroes beat up purple lizards, robots, elephant people and other weirdos in Golden Axe meets an acid trip!! BEAST beast beast..... CGR Metamorphic Force video review features Metamorphic Force gameplay recorded from the arcade machine playing the Metamorphic Force JAMMA PCB board. Fans of Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, X-Men and other side scrolling brawlers must play this delightful and cheesy game whic deserves more respect and many sequels!!

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@JohnSTF72 11 жыл бұрын

This was one of Konami's best arcade scrolling beat'em up games and one of the lesser known ones unfortunately.Thank goodness for Mark for revealing its greatness to the people.Thanks Mark! :)

@deftoned2 11 жыл бұрын

Konami needs to make a Konami Arcade Beat 'em Up Collection of some sort. We have arcade collections, greatest hits collections, retro collections, fighter collections.... even a Dreamcast collection. We need a Beat 'em Up collection from Konami!!! And Capcom too!

@TheCompletionist 11 жыл бұрын

I've always wondered what the name of this game was. I was very fortunate to play this game on a 4 player arcade cabinet back in high school. I actually used the bull character quite a lot, and my friends and I beat this game back in high school. Its good I can actually associate a name to this game.

@Seaoftea 8 жыл бұрын

This is my all time favorite beat em up. There used to be one at a local theater and it ate more than a few allowances of mine. I love how the enemies pop like over filled water balloons when they die, it's such a satisfying feeling.

@michaeluy114 9 жыл бұрын

I like the horse guy because he does a dance when the enemy is down

@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக் 8 жыл бұрын

He's a horse? he looks like a bull to me.

@omegarugal9283 8 жыл бұрын

Ban turns itnoa bull.. a minotaur to be exact...

@maxthewicked100 11 жыл бұрын

Woo! More Arcade reviews! My favorite kind! CGR, you never fail to disappoint me!

@CabezaSelects 11 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see a Metamorphic Force sequel just to see Mark review it and having fun. Good times.

@milosmisic89 10 жыл бұрын

That game is awesome. Me and my buddies called one of the characters John Travolta :D

@presidentsnow7315 11 жыл бұрын

I like the "Life Force" background at 3:50.

@bringsegaback 11 жыл бұрын

I love their reviews from way back when. It makes the think that, when I play my Dreamcast, it's brand new and the 56k lag in Quake Arena doesn't matter.

@milosmisic89 10 жыл бұрын

Mark should've mentioned the ultra-mega-superior-awesome music in the first level!

@XEric30 11 жыл бұрын

Why this show always make me feel better? Oh I know! Because it awsome! Good job Mark!

@dreamtheaterz28 11 жыл бұрын

This game looks very similar to the X-Men arcade machine. I loved that game so much.

@mr.ludvig1102 11 жыл бұрын

You are one off the best reviewer ever. Keep up the good work

@SeNniN06 11 жыл бұрын

this looks really awesome! My all time fav beat'em up at the arcade was Cadillacs and dinosaurs. god, I use to play that a lot.

@abbs123 11 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love the colour in this game please konami please, please, please!!! Bring this out on arcade.

@Boonehams 11 жыл бұрын

Violent Storm is another quality Konami beat'em-up from around the same time. One of the bosses is a parody of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It's great.

@DarkMProductions 11 жыл бұрын

Not to mention this game has an awesome Power Metal soundtrack. Makes this game even more bad ass than it already is.

@HankBlockOG 11 жыл бұрын

I played this alot growing up at the skatingring in lakeshore Michigan

@ravagingwolverine 11 жыл бұрын

Cool review. It was hard for beat em ups to compete in 1993 without a solid license which is likely why this one isn't so well known. Altered Beast mixed with Golden Axe and plays like X-Men. Good stuff. I didn't like this game much initially, but I came around. Lots of fun to play. I think Shock Troopers should be game of the year, though.

@XeCuTioNR 11 жыл бұрын

This plays like a well refined combination of Golden Axe, abit of Altered Beast, and more notably Konami's X-Men. Truly a game that Konami and history has forgotten, and deserves a HD re-release, and put on an arcade collection disc, with C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa (Sunsetriders 2 in a nutshell), Midnight Run, GTI Club, and any other Konami game that needs a good re-release.

@Raiden3651 11 жыл бұрын

Bloody roar crossed with a beat em up. If you like the Xmen, TMNT, and Simpsons arcade game, Metamorphic force is from the same Konami developers as well.

@NateMcCloud 11 жыл бұрын

So much hotness packed into this game. (By the way, you should give Mutant Fighter a try. So much love for the Werewolf and Minotaur.

@illumatari2873 11 жыл бұрын

I loved this game as a kid! I will contact Konami right away. Thanks for another great review.

@Mephianse81 11 жыл бұрын

This looks very similar to XMEN THE ARCADE. That panther dude even walks and has Nightcrawler's special!

@DethMetalMetrosexual 11 жыл бұрын

I don't remember this one from my old arcade days in the late eighties/early nineties.

@flatshade 11 жыл бұрын

Great PCB, one of my all-time favourites.

@SpiralPegasus 11 жыл бұрын

OH JESUS SO STURMWIND WAS FINALLY RELEASED?! Awesome!! Thanks for lettinmg me know!

@ClexYoshi 10 жыл бұрын

Mark needs some Ninja Baseball Batmen in his life.

@ravagingwolverine 11 жыл бұрын

The game feels a lot like X-Men as well, though obviously enhanced in a number of ways including grapple moves. What you call a desperation move is a little different as it's based on grabbing a power up rather than using button input. There are separate crowd-control moves for the characters.

@TheGachaGourmand 10 жыл бұрын

It's like a beat'em up version of Bloody Roar. So awesome! O.o

@jbmaru 11 жыл бұрын

Just seen your chanel, nice work with the Mega Drive music compilations!

@SpiralPegasus 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! I seriously appreciate it! :D (spread links of the series when you see people talking ill of the sound of the MD!)

@universalsoldier9579 8 жыл бұрын

They need to bring this game back and create sequals with better graphics.

@darkdialga777 11 жыл бұрын

They have one of these at the big cheese pizza in hutchinson, kansas.

@Kiryuu238 11 жыл бұрын

LOOOOOVVVVVVEEEE this game!!! Played the hell out of the game when I still lived in Pitt. BEAST!

@sryx 11 жыл бұрын

It's like the play style of Final Fight, the gimmick of Altered Beast and set in the distant future (the real 2000?) I can see why it's such a great game :)

@kevinorozco7083 4 жыл бұрын

I played this every vacation in Mexico in an arcade where it had 100 games included.!!! Good times 😪

@DethMetalMetrosexual 11 жыл бұрын

I think I might have to send Mark some fan art.

@d00mfan89 11 жыл бұрын

If Altered Beast and X-men arcade had a baby, this is what it'll look like

@monkey670 11 жыл бұрын

We need all freaking awesome arcade games to downloadable and steam now

@ripoutyourprejudice 10 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was kinda surprised that out of all of the game he compared this to Altered Beast wasn't one of them.

@donno9500 5 жыл бұрын

Well in altered beast the man also transforms into a beast. So there's obvious similarities

@LyricalMasterMind1 8 жыл бұрын

He said it's like Golden axe, but this reminds me of Altered Beast

@teddym2808 5 жыл бұрын

it's a mix of the two

@ThalesAcm 11 жыл бұрын

at 2:30 you can clearly see colossus and nightcrawler...

@ramiel007 11 жыл бұрын

I brag on knowing a lot about games, but I learned something new, thanks dude!

@EmberGyaru 11 жыл бұрын

1:00 My brain autofilled the last word of this sentence: "It's not very often that a game comes along and resonates with me on a level usually reserved for masturbating."

@Darthadios 11 жыл бұрын

Transforming into beast reminds me from something really nasty.... Altered beast for the Mega drive.

@OxBigly2010 11 жыл бұрын

It looks like the used the game engine from the X-Men arcade game. The characters seem to be "graphic hacks" of the X-Men characters with the same moves.

@YoshMaster 11 жыл бұрын

This looks way better than 99% of Konami's last 10 years releases!!

@MAYOFORCE 11 жыл бұрын

This game has the best voice acting.

@FuzzyCthulhu 11 жыл бұрын

The orange one has a beer gut.

@Mr_x_19922 10 жыл бұрын

this game is one of the best arcade games i have ever played, it's a masterpiece

@ajboomer1347 5 жыл бұрын

Too bad it was never released on home consoles.

@leadrevolver 11 жыл бұрын

This is so obscurely awesome

@KappaCow 11 жыл бұрын

Hey, Mark! One quick request: (Feel free to ignore if you'd like) But the word "Often" is pronounced "Offen", the "T" sound becomes silent when it ends with an "EN". Thanks! :)

@jbmaru 11 жыл бұрын

Mark, last year's game was Gunlord, so before determining the game of this year, buy and review Sturmwind ;)

@TheBonkINC 11 жыл бұрын

X-men (Arcade Version) + Altered Beast = Metamorphic Force (Lovechild)

@Hatutsuki 11 жыл бұрын

Golden axe x bloody roar. Awesome!!

@asianguy1978014 10 жыл бұрын

this game exactly like x-men the arcade

@Guernicaman 10 жыл бұрын

Would love to see this game brought to consoles via Xbox live and psn. Konami has already come out with games like this on that platform and they should do the same with this!

@XEric30 11 жыл бұрын

Konami please! Bring back this game!

@KappaCow 11 жыл бұрын

No, actually the T is silent, for example: "Castle" or "Listen" Both of those end in EN, and the T is silent. As goes with "Often".

@TheOnlyHellGod 10 жыл бұрын

It looks great, however I did not hear that it was "totally Lando", so I question if it is the greatest human invention of all time. Perhaps a revision is in order?

@AllardRT 11 жыл бұрын

What the fuck? The black panther guy is straight from Golden Axe 3!

@CiroGalli 11 жыл бұрын

You're wrong: "often" can be pronounced both ways: with a sounding or silent T.

@Leadwing85 11 жыл бұрын

looks like it was made with the same engine that brought us Xmen the arcade game

@StopFear 11 жыл бұрын

lol, did anyone see when the enemy Hedgehogs attacking at 4:00 ? Anyone thing it is a pun at Sonic The Hedgehog since this game and Sonic games are from the same era?

@Dynaman21 10 жыл бұрын

So Altered Beast + Saint Seiya = Metamorphic Force. Still, anything patterned after the X Men arcade game can't be all bad.

@Gingerzilla 11 жыл бұрын

I like the name... Short and snappy.

@lordeowstheking 11 жыл бұрын

A lot of people have said it already I'll have to agree this is like the xmen game

@IamNOVAone 11 жыл бұрын

Love this video one of your best review haha

@Zycyzyx 10 жыл бұрын

This and Violent Storm are easily two of my favorite arcade beat-em-ups of all time. Truly a shame Konami never made console ports for either. :(

@DarrinsDen2023 11 жыл бұрын

Konami made the x-men arcade game, as well as this one.

@hristaki99 11 жыл бұрын

Stop cutting that theme song 2 seconds after it begins. It's awesome. I want to hear it at least to the 20th second.

@DethMetalMetrosexual 11 жыл бұрын

"Come down here and fight like a...whatever the fuck we are."

@lordthenightknight 11 жыл бұрын

This is more like the X-Men arcade game crossed with Altered Beast.

@ShadowsHeat 11 жыл бұрын

I want this game

@HunterRodrigez 11 жыл бұрын

boy... i thought this game had something to do with the book Metamorphosis by Kafka...

@tubularLeah 11 жыл бұрын

We miss Viral Dog!

@Deathfromabove5 11 жыл бұрын

He has reviewed Jaguar and Sega CD games before, CDI I'm not sure about.

@SWellusionist 11 жыл бұрын

Golden axe meets altered beast mark

@ShadoSkydiver 11 жыл бұрын

I'm sure this game will beat GTA V as CGR's best game of the year 2013

@Heavy_Metal1982 11 жыл бұрын

Just playing this on mame. It really is good!

@Progearspec 11 жыл бұрын

I never got to play metamorphic force in the arcades.First tine id played it was through mame thankfully enough.Then i wonder why konami never gave it a port,since it's a great beat'em up.If mark is looking for another obscure one,he should try NINJA BASEBALL BATMAN next ~_^

@TheNewport2009 11 жыл бұрын

this review and game is extremely awesome and hillarious

@RetroClash95 11 жыл бұрын

When is the gigawing 2 review coming?

@Ownko 11 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing the 4-player version of this game at my city's arcade when I was a kid. Good times.

@ChristopherSobieniak 11 жыл бұрын

It's a shame Konami isn't the same as the Konami we grew up on.

@JNugent74 11 жыл бұрын

But have you reviewed the Bally Astrocade yet?

@MetalTiger88 11 жыл бұрын

at least on the mega cd there are a lot of great games like silpheed, kaio flying squadron, robo aleste, sonic cd and lords of thunder =) just to name a few^^

@TheMrEPenguin 11 жыл бұрын

The game looks exactly like X-men arcade.

@TheBeastboy6 10 жыл бұрын

OH. MY. GOD. I've been looking for this game forever. My best friend and I used to play this all the time. They had it at our local ice-rink, we would pay to get in just to play this, to this day I still can't skate. I couldn't remember the name of it and everytime I described it to someone they would always say "Your thinking of Altered Beast" but I knew that's not what I was thinking of. Altered Beast is nothing compared to METAMORPHIC FORCE.

@tartuffethesprywonderdog5883 6 жыл бұрын

*You're

@Koho7 11 жыл бұрын

No offense to Kojima, but holding him hostage may be one way to get Konami to release this game and other classics if possible, to PSN, XBL and Steam. I NEED THIS GAME FOR ALL THAT RAINBOW BLISS!

@TomasGregovich 11 жыл бұрын

What happened to Stella the Viral Dog?

@pal-of-pals 3 жыл бұрын

Don't cry because it's over, be happy that it happened.

@WolfMoon351 11 жыл бұрын

they should bring this back for Online

@cyxceven 11 жыл бұрын

MF has great music, too.

@ClassicTeam 11 жыл бұрын

Someone has already nabbed these keys without saying so :P

@underthepale 10 жыл бұрын

This game is, indeed, a transformative experience- Pun not intended. One cannot play this game and not feel changed forever. A flagrant ripoff of Altered Beast, right down to the Greco-Roman stylization of the goddess and the big boss? Yes, but leave us to consider it more... An improvement. ... Seriously, this game is amazing and you should all play it, by any means necessary.