Metaltech: Earthsiege

Metaltech: Earthsiege
Developer(s)Dynamix
Publisher(s)Sierra On-Line
Producer(s)Mark Crowe
Designer(s)Mark Crowe
David Selle
Programmer(s)Paul Bowman
Artist(s)Robert Caracol
Composer(s)Timothy Steven Clarke
Christopher Stevens
Platform(s)DOS
Release
  • NA: October 25, 1994
  • EU/AU: 1994
Genre(s)Simulation
Mode(s)Single player

Metaltech: Earthsiege is a mecha-style simulation video game developed by Dynamix and released in 1994.

Players are placed in the cockpit of various massive bipedal war machines known as Herculans (Humaniform-Emulation Roboticized Combat Unit with Leg-Articulated Navigation) (or 'HERCs' for short). Set in the 25th or 26th century, Earthsiege is a technologically advanced setting with many futuristic weapons and vehicles.

Earthsiege is the first in a series of video games in the Metaltech universe, which contains Earthsiege 2 (1996) and Metaltech: Battledrome (1994), as well as the strategy games MissionForce: CyberStorm (1996) and Cyberstorm 2: Corporate Wars (1998), direct sequel mecha-simulation Starsiege (1999), and first-person shooters Starsiege: Tribes (1998), Tribes 2 (2001), Tribes: Aerial Assault (2002) Tribes: Vengeance (2004) and Tribes: Ascend (2012). In 2015, Earthsiege was released as freeware by Hi-Rez Studios.