Giants of Steel
Description
Giants of Steel is a mecha combat simulation game in the vein of MechWarrior 2 or Earthsiege. As in MechWarrior 2, the story is set in a distant future where clans of battle mecha pilots vie for supremacy. The player controls one of several types of giant bipedal robots (simply called Giants in this game), completing various missions in fully 3D dynamic battlegrounds that may feature enemy and friendly vehicles, aircraft, buildings and other Giants.
Each mission is preceded with a briefing outlining the current objectives, then the player can choose the weapons/equipment loadout of the their Giant. In many scenarios, the objective is to destroy an enemy target or an entire base, but some are defence, escort and rescue missions. The singleplayer campaign comprises 18 missions (with the first three being tutorial scenarios), and there is also a two-player split-screen mode.
Giants of Steel was originally sold as shareware, but the developers released the full game as freeware in 1997.