The best mech game no one played - Slave Zero (1999) Retrospective

In the late 90s a group of developers, inspired by mecha and a desire to push forward graphics for the PC, made a stellar 3D action game that should have gone on to become a classic. Except it didn't. Thanks to circumstances outside of their control the game was widely forgotten. So what happened? How did a promising PC title with so much going for it become as obscure as it is? Well the answer is a lot simpler than you'd think.

It was the dreamcast.

Get Slave Zero:
https://www.gog.com/en/game/slave_zero

Download Peixoto's Patch:
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/fi...

Archived link to the interview:
https://web.archive.org/web/201409110...


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00:00 - Back to '99
02:08 - Setting it up
03:56 - Premise
06:02 - Intro to Combat
09:26 - Deeper into the City
13:33 - Gameplay Quirks
15:42 - Escaping to the Surface
17:56 - Graphics
19:46 - The Old City
22:22 - Level Design
27:41 - Bosses & Military Bases
30:58 - Music
32:08 - Spiders & the Upper City
35:03 - Development
39:53 - An Awful Port
44:51 - A Questionable Prequel
46:01 - The Final Mission
53:26 - Conclusion