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Sega Dreamcast Wild Metal

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Wild Metal is a Rockstar Games-published vehicular combat title for the Sega Dreamcast, released in 2000. You pilot tanks across barren alien terrain, hunting down stolen power cores from rogue machines before they complete their escape. That is the whole premise. Tank controls, open environments, physics-forward destruction. It is not a long game, but it is a dense one, and it arrived during a Rockstar catalog phase that almost nobody talks about anymore.

By 2000, Rockstar was four years removed from their founding and still figuring out what their publishing identity was. Grand Theft Auto had released in 1997 and the sequel in 1999, but the 3D open-world blueprint that would define them globally did not land until GTA III in 2001. The gap years produced a catalog of publisher experiments: Tanktics, Smuggler's Run, and Wild Metal among them. Wild Metal was developed by Rage Software and brought over from PC, where it had released a year earlier. The Dreamcast version gave it a new control scheme and a console audience. It came out during the back half of Dreamcast's commercial life, after Sega had already announced the platform was being discontinued, which means the install base buying new software in 2000 was the committed core, not the casual crowd. That makes surviving physical copies from this period thinner on the ground than the production numbers alone would suggest.

A Rockstar joint nobody talks about, from the summer Dreamcast started its long goodbye.

This copy presents as a standard black-spine jewel case release for the North American market. The Dreamcast GD-ROM format means the disc is larger in diameter than a standard CD, and the case spine reflects that with the Sega orange stripe and title text common to the platform's NA releases. Check the disc tray hub ring for crazing or stress-whitening around the center clamp, which is the first place Dreamcast cases show age. If the case hinge is tight and the foam tray insert has not yellowed or split, this copy has been stored well. The GD-ROM data surface should be examined under light before play.

OWNER VERIFY: Confirm North American release (vs. PAL) by checking the back-of-case region coding and the Sega copyright text, which will read either "Sega Enterprises" or "Sega of America" depending on regional print run.

A Rockstar joint nobody talks about, from the summer Dreamcast started its long goodbye.
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Sega's y2k catalogue moved fast and took risks. Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, the arcades that fed them, the merchandise that trailed each launch. The blue-ribbon years produced cartridges, plush, promotional cards, and magazine inserts that rarely made it past the living room floor. What landed here was stored carefully enough to survive two console generations.

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Sega Dreamcast. Wild Metal (2000). The Dreamcast release of the Rockstar Games vehicular combat game. Standard Dreamcast jewel case. The cover features a futuristic armored tank vehicle firing a projectile at a red mechanical enemy craft. Explosions and debris on a dusty desert/alien landscape. "WILD METAL" in large bold metallic text at the top. "RECLAIM THE FUTURE" tagline. Rockstar Games logo at lower left. Sega logo at lower left. ESRB Teen rating.

Wild Metal (2000) was an early Rockstar Games title on the Dreamcast. A vehicular combat game set on alien planets where players piloted tanks to recover stolen power cores from rogue machines. Before Rockstar Games became synonymous with Grand Theft Auto and open-world crime epics, they published a diverse range of titles across multiple platforms. Wild Metal on the Dreamcast is a fascinating piece of Rockstar's early history. A quirky, physics-based tank combat game that shows the publisher experimenting before finding their defining voice. Dreamcast games published by Rockstar are rare collector's pieces. The Dreamcast library is full of deep cuts, and this Rockstar curiosity is one of them. Reclaim the future.

Dreamcast game. Pre-owned. See photos for condition.

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