I played this every vacation in Mexico in an arcade where it had 100 games included.!!! Good times 😪
@TheGachaGourmand10 жыл бұрын
It's like a beat'em up version of Bloody Roar. So awesome! O.o
@Mr_x_1992210 жыл бұрын
this game is one of the best arcade games i have ever played, it's a masterpiece
@ajboomer13475 жыл бұрын
Too bad it was never released on home consoles.
@LyricalMasterMind18 жыл бұрын
He said it's like Golden axe, but this reminds me of Altered Beast
@teddym28085 жыл бұрын
it's a mix of the two
@JohnSTF7211 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! :)
@Zycyzyx10 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. :(
@Ownko11 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing the 4-player version of this game at my city's arcade when I was a kid. Good times.
@Seaoftea8 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.
@TheBeastboy610 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.
@tartuffethesprywonderdog58836 жыл бұрын
*You're
@deftoned211 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!
@TheCompletionist11 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.
@ClexYoshi10 жыл бұрын
Mark needs some Ninja Baseball Batmen in his life.
@CabezaSelects11 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see a Metamorphic Force sequel just to see Mark review it and having fun. Good times.
@universalsoldier95798 жыл бұрын
They need to bring this game back and create sequals with better graphics.
@Boonehams11 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.
@michaeluy1149 жыл бұрын
I like the horse guy because he does a dance when the enemy is down
@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக்8 жыл бұрын
He's a horse? he looks like a bull to me.
@omegarugal92838 жыл бұрын
Ban turns itnoa bull.. a minotaur to be exact...
@milosmisic8910 жыл бұрын
That game is awesome. Me and my buddies called one of the characters John Travolta :D
@bringsegaback11 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.
@DarkMProductions11 жыл бұрын
Not to mention this game has an awesome Power Metal soundtrack. Makes this game even more bad ass than it already is.
@maxthewicked10011 жыл бұрын
Woo! More Arcade reviews! My favorite kind! CGR, you never fail to disappoint me!
@SeNniN0611 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.
@EmberGyaru11 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."
@XeCuTioNR11 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.
@dreamtheaterz2811 жыл бұрын
This game looks very similar to the X-Men arcade machine. I loved that game so much.
@abbs12311 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love the colour in this game please konami please, please, please!!! Bring this out on arcade.
@HankBlockOG11 жыл бұрын
I played this alot growing up at the skatingring in lakeshore Michigan
@d00mfan8911 жыл бұрын
If Altered Beast and X-men arcade had a baby, this is what it'll look like
@milosmisic8910 жыл бұрын
Mark should've mentioned the ultra-mega-superior-awesome music in the first level!
@presidentsnow731511 жыл бұрын
I like the "Life Force" background at 3:50.
@Raiden365111 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.
@SpiralPegasus11 жыл бұрын
OH JESUS SO STURMWIND WAS FINALLY RELEASED?! Awesome!! Thanks for lettinmg me know!
@YoshMaster11 жыл бұрын
This looks way better than 99% of Konami's last 10 years releases!!
@Kiryuu23811 жыл бұрын
LOOOOOVVVVVVEEEE this game!!! Played the hell out of the game when I still lived in Pitt. BEAST!
@Mephianse8111 жыл бұрын
This looks very similar to XMEN THE ARCADE. That panther dude even walks and has Nightcrawler's special!
@ravagingwolverine11 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.
@XEric3011 жыл бұрын
Why this show always make me feel better? Oh I know! Because it awsome! Good job Mark!
@DethMetalMetrosexual11 жыл бұрын
I think I might have to send Mark some fan art.
@DethMetalMetrosexual11 жыл бұрын
I don't remember this one from my old arcade days in the late eighties/early nineties.
@illumatari287311 жыл бұрын
I loved this game as a kid! I will contact Konami right away. Thanks for another great review.
@NateMcCloud11 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.
@mr.ludvig110211 жыл бұрын
You are one off the best reviewer ever. Keep up the good work
@flatshade11 жыл бұрын
Great PCB, one of my all-time favourites.
@MAYOFORCE11 жыл бұрын
This game has the best voice acting.
@monkey67011 жыл бұрын
We need all freaking awesome arcade games to downloadable and steam now
@ravagingwolverine11 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.
@darkdialga77711 жыл бұрын
They have one of these at the big cheese pizza in hutchinson, kansas.
@jbmaru11 жыл бұрын
Just seen your chanel, nice work with the Mega Drive music compilations!
@DethMetalMetrosexual11 жыл бұрын
"Come down here and fight like a...whatever the fuck we are."
@ramiel00711 жыл бұрын
I brag on knowing a lot about games, but I learned something new, thanks dude!
@TheBonkINC11 жыл бұрын
X-men (Arcade Version) + Altered Beast = Metamorphic Force (Lovechild)
@sryx11 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 :)
@OxBigly201011 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.
@Darthadios11 жыл бұрын
Transforming into beast reminds me from something really nasty.... Altered beast for the Mega drive.
@SpiralPegasus11 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!)
@underthepale10 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.
@Guernicaman10 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!
@pal-of-pals3 жыл бұрын
Don't cry because it's over, be happy that it happened.
@leadrevolver11 жыл бұрын
This is so obscurely awesome
@ripoutyourprejudice10 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.
@donno95005 жыл бұрын
Well in altered beast the man also transforms into a beast. So there's obvious similarities
@XEric3011 жыл бұрын
Konami please! Bring back this game!
@ThalesAcm11 жыл бұрын
at 2:30 you can clearly see colossus and nightcrawler...
@lordeowstheking11 жыл бұрын
A lot of people have said it already I'll have to agree this is like the xmen game
@KappaCow11 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".
@Hatutsuki11 жыл бұрын
Golden axe x bloody roar. Awesome!!
@asianguy197801410 жыл бұрын
this game exactly like x-men the arcade
@Dynaman2110 жыл бұрын
So Altered Beast + Saint Seiya = Metamorphic Force. Still, anything patterned after the X Men arcade game can't be all bad.
@FuzzyCthulhu11 жыл бұрын
The orange one has a beer gut.
@Koho711 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!
@hristaki9911 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.
@AllardRT11 жыл бұрын
What the fuck? The black panther guy is straight from Golden Axe 3!
@TheOnlyHellGod10 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?
@jbmaru11 жыл бұрын
Mark, last year's game was Gunlord, so before determining the game of this year, buy and review Sturmwind ;)
@StopFear11 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?
@ClassicTeam11 жыл бұрын
Someone has already nabbed these keys without saying so :P
@Leadwing8511 жыл бұрын
looks like it was made with the same engine that brought us Xmen the arcade game
@TheNewport200910 жыл бұрын
FEAR MY MULLET! ahhahahaha that was great
@CiroGalli11 жыл бұрын
You're wrong: "often" can be pronounced both ways: with a sounding or silent T.
@juanmartinstehle50474 жыл бұрын
Altered Beast on steroids.
@Mr_x_1992210 жыл бұрын
I have this game and it's really awesome
@ShadoSkydiver11 жыл бұрын
I'm sure this game will beat GTA V as CGR's best game of the year 2013
@ChristopherSobieniak11 жыл бұрын
It's a shame Konami isn't the same as the Konami we grew up on.
@daveKoRnfan10 жыл бұрын
I always think in the intro he says plastic game room lol
@Gingerzilla11 жыл бұрын
I like the name... Short and snappy.
@Spoons12311 жыл бұрын
Help, I can't stop hearing "spanished from earth, classic game room broadcast..."
@Heavy_Metal198211 жыл бұрын
Just playing this on mame. It really is good!
@MetalTiger8811 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^^
@ludwigvoncocksucker32759 жыл бұрын
is there a video with a tour of his current game room?
@lordthenightknight11 жыл бұрын
This is more like the X-Men arcade game crossed with Altered Beast.
@TheNewport200911 жыл бұрын
this review and game is extremely awesome and hillarious
@gigidyyy10 жыл бұрын
So this game looks almost identical to the four player X-Men game.. did they just re-skin it? Oh.. and FUCKING COMMENTS!
@gigidyyy10 жыл бұрын
why the hell am I even bothering to comment on here anyway.. I will never get a notification will I? :-S
@dontscream8 жыл бұрын
+Jonny Blanka i was thinking the same fucking thing. I liked and played both when i was younger. But now just realizing how hardcore of a rip off mod of X-men the Arcade game. even the Hero's Super Ability
@KappaCow11 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! :)
@DarrinsDen202311 жыл бұрын
Konami made the x-men arcade game, as well as this one.
@tubularLeah11 жыл бұрын
We miss Viral Dog!
@Deathfromabove511 жыл бұрын
He has reviewed Jaguar and Sega CD games before, CDI I'm not sure about.
@Progearspec11 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 ~_^
@JonnyJonvilleJonathan10 жыл бұрын
WE ARE HEROES!
@HunterRodrigez11 жыл бұрын
boy... i thought this game had something to do with the book Metamorphosis by Kafka...