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"It is 2004. I am taking you on a journeying to 2004. Our skilful friends at FromSoftware released a game that, unbeknownst to them, would lay the very foundation for the modern American political landscape. This game, this motherfucking legendary slice of common cold-rolled amazing, was forged in the almost sacred elements of video game development: mechs, explosions and overly-dramatic phonation interim. Ladies, gentlemen, holy fucking shit, may I present to you FromSoftware'south 2004 masterclass in democratic mech warfare: Metallic. WOLF. CHAOS."

Michael Wilson, veteran of the Arizona Insurrection and 47th President of the Us has been deposed in a military coup by his running mate, Richard Hawk. Now, he must take up the guise of Metal Wolf and take back America urban center by city, armed simply with his Mini-Mecha and the power of called-for American liberty.

A game this American could only take been made in Nippon.

Metal Wolf Anarchy is a 2004 original Xbox game made by FromSoftware of Armored Cadre and Souls fame, which unfortunately (and weirdly) was never released outside of Japan. It is a mecha game similar to the Armored Cadre serial, focused around the highly American pursuit of blowing stuff up, with a plot and dialog that is the epitome of Hot-Blooded American Patriotic Fervor, regardless of coming from a dissimilar state altogether. Weaponry includes machine guns, rocket launchers, and a shark gun — yes, a shark gun — while the plot takes you to shootouts in the southwest, bomb threats in Beverly Hills, mangling mechas in Manhattan, redecorating the White House with missiles, a showdown with Richard in Las Vegas, and space, assisted forth the style by a resistance strength skilled only in blocking tank cannons with their helicopters, and the President'south slightly psychotic secretary, Jody Crawford.

Michael Wilson and his mecha made also a cameo advent in FromSoftware'due south Enchanted Arms equally a bonus boss which unlocks the power to use him in battle one time defeated.

In 2016, publisher Devolver Digital announced their intent to localize the game overseas... which indeed came to pass at E3 2018 with their annunciation and partnership with General Arcade of a remastered version, dubbed Metal Wolf Chaos XD, and was released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC through Steam and GOG.com on August half-dozen, 2019, finally allowing international audiences to experience the patriotic insanity afterwards 15 years of existence an import-just panel game. Since the remaster's declaration, Devolver has released various videos during its development, which are the E3 2018 teaser trailer, the release appointment trailer, a retrospective of the game'due south legacy, and the "Permit's Party" Pre-Release trailer by Powerhouse Animations. A "Backside the Schemes" was besides released featuring Devolver Digital interviewing key FromSoftware staff members behind the development of Metal Wolf Chaos.

See as well Liberation Maiden for another game nigh a fictitious presidential figure piloting a mecha to save their state. Absolutely non to confused with nor related to the 2002 Princess Soft sci-fi visual novel, Metal Wolf.

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Mr. President, believe in your own tropes:

• 0% Approval Rating: In his brief reign as President, Richard has re-established slave labor, completely militarized and fortified the country's major metropolises, flooded the city of Chicago with poison gas, installed a Wave-Move Gun on Alcatraz Island, and terrorized New York with a giant mechanical spider. To his credit, he at to the lowest degree subconsciously acknowledges that everyone hates him and runs a Anticlimax-laced propaganda entrada to boost his approval ratings out of the .000%-range.
• A.Yard.A.-47: Largely averted by the lower level weapons, but played straight with the high leveled ones.
• Abnormal Ammo: Things Michael can burn down from his guns includes some sort of land shark or create tornadoes.
• Ace Custom: Both Metal Wolf and Richard Hawk'due south mobile armour are custom, improved variants of mobile armour yous can run into every bit Aristocracy Mooks in after levels. Richard also has a line of custom-fabricated weapons, which are recognizable with the 'RH' prefix and usually the highest-tier weapon y'all can unlock in each category.
• Achievement System: The XD version features 47 achievements the player can achieve. These achievements include "Articulate X stage", "Rescue 5 musicians", "Take damage from landmines or kamakazes", or "Unlock every weapon in the game".
• Activeness Flop: The appropriately named Kamakazes, minor drones armed with explosives and charges at the histrion inside range to suicide flop them. The M939 "TROT" trucks, military trucks in the Beverly Hills level loaded with bombs, will too try to ram into the player and explode on contact.
• Action Pol: Michael, probably THE most badass president ever (fictional or otherwise). And if Ninja Blade is whatsoever indication, he got it from his dad.
• Advancing Dominate of Doom: The Warner battle tank in Liberty Island, which has Michael cornered on the Brooklyn Bridge betwixt it and its approach towards the Statue of Liberty which is where Jody and Michael's co-workers are existence convict.
• Affectionate Parody: Specifically of From's other series Armored Core, just also of mecha shows, American activeness movies, and politics in full general. Some people merits it's satire, but it'due south much too cheerful about everything to count as that. Specifically, it seems similar a parody of movies with Activity Presidents such as Independence Day or Air Force One.
• Alphabet News Network: DNN.
• American Robot: One of the greatest examples IN AMERICA.
• And Your Reward Is Clothes: Alternative suits for Metal Wolf by clearing stages in Hell way, some of which accept the Patriotic Fervor to extreme levels (e.thousand. American Flag scheme).
• Anti-Frustration Features: Should yous accidentally impale whatever POWs or didn't rescue the ones in time-flop cages earlier information technology exploded, you can revisit the stage later and rescue them again.
• Artificial Stupidity: During the battle in Las Vegas casino, Richard's A.I. can't discern between different heights, leading it to attack space under the balconies, if protagonist stands on one of them.
• Authorization Equals Asskicking: The protagonist and adversary are the President and Vice President of the United states.
• Auto-Save: The XD remaster adds an auto-save characteristic to save player progress in between stages.
• Battle Cry: Michael's "Owkay... LET'South PARTYYYYY!!!"
• Behind the Black: Some of the subconscious collectibles are hiding behind the player'due south starting point or off from their line of vision, while some others are perched away in obtuse places that can hands be missed.
• Beard of Evil: Run across Richard Hawk's beard here ◊.
• BFG: Many of the guns used by Metal Wolf are as long as it is alpine. Enemies also carry their share of big guns.
  • The kings of those, however, are railguns, sporting the meanest punch amongst almost weapons, at the toll of long chargeup time to burn down the more than powerful shot.
• BFS: The Moonlight Sword, a secret Bazooka-type weapon that fires a devastating magical sword beam with lighting following its path, similarly to its magic assault from the first (and Japan-only) Male monarch's Field.
• Black Comedy: The entirety of the game's humour hinges on this, from the super over-the-top Eagleland parody of the United States, the barrage of one-liners from Jody in how gleeful and optimistic she is over the mass carnage and elimination of traitors, and things similar Richard'south extraordinarily evil means of killing every unmarried person that resists him out of cruel-yet-hilarious spite.
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: Some of the written script has "Bowforce" (meant to be BOFORS), "Mobile Armor Model Shack" (meant to be Shaq, referring to Shaquille Neville who piloted the same mobile armor), and the naming tin can't decide whether a referenced-only graphic symbol is named "Coin Money Gold" or "Manny Manny Gold".
• Blow Y'all Away: The TLT750 "TWISTER", a unique Flamethrower weapon that can create powerful tornadoes that shred apart foes instead of shooting a stream of fire.

• Tedious, but Applied: Quite often, a lot of boss enemies and target areas tin exist cheesed by hiding somewhere and charging upward the railgun to full power, then walking to the target and shooting it. Provided right firing angle, it's quite possible to destroy multiple buildings in a single volley or 1-shot a dominate. Even the Ultimate Weapon is not immune to this tactic, though information technology's harder due to the insane corporeality of missiles it launches and deflector shields damping the damage.

• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Jody. Competent enough to be the President's secretarial assistant and provide Mission Control during his One-Man Army binge confronting Richard, while too speaking in a manner eerily discrete from the stakes more reminiscent of a game show host's banana. Some of her dialogue during boss fights has her sounding borderline Axe-Crazy.
• Carte du jour-Carrying Villain: We never hear any of Richard's motivations beyond some incomprehensible propaganda near the showtime. He just hates freedom for some reason.
  • We are told near the end that Richard is doing this because he believes America has get corrupt and lazy, mayhap due to as well much freedom, and he intends to create a stronger nation by culling the weak...or so we call up. For all we know, he's but using this as a testing bed for social engineering science when Pax Economia comes.
  • In the final battle, he also shows his jealousy towards Michael getting a Medal of Honor and not him.
• The Cameo: Michael and his mecha make an appearance as a bonus boss in Enchanted Arms, an RPG game also by FromSoftware, however his mecha's proper name was dubbed "Executor" in that game. Defeating him unlocks him as a recruitable Golem that also uses some of his catchphrases from Metallic Wolf Chaos during attacks.
• Catchphrase: No less than six — "Believe in your own justice," for the game as a whole, "Considering, yep! The pen is still mightier than the sword!" for Peter MacDonald, "I, Richard Hawk," for, well, Richard Hawk, "Because I am the President of the U.s.!" for Michael, "The password is ______" for the Government Policy Promotion Department and "That's an ironclad battle tactic!" for the Resistance Commander. No, really.
  • Likewise, "HOW Practice YOU LIKE ME NOW!?!" for Michael.
  • "Whatever!"
• Charged Attack: How the Railgun-blazon weapons works. You can burn down a single energy shot, or agree down the burn down push button and charge up more power into your shot at the expense of your Heave Meter.
• Checkpoint Starvation: Should you lose at any betoken during a phase, you'll be booted dorsum to the starting time of the stage if you decide to go along.
• Chekhov'south Gun: Recall this spaceplane launch facility, which yous took downwardly along with Olajiwon heavy super-assault helicopter? That's from where Richard moved resources to the USA's infinite colony, which is set for the terminal level in the game.
• Breast Blaster: Richard Hawk gets one as his answer to Michael's Macross Missile Massacre.

  Consume my flame of justice!

• Continuing is Painful: On top of existence forced to start a stage over for failing, you likewise lose whatsoever collectible items/weapons yous found and POWs you lot may accept rescued during the phase and accept to find them all over once again until you succeed with them in tow.
• Crate Expectations: Since the Metallic Wolf armor is so large, shipping containers serve the office usually taken past crates in shooting games. They can contain funds, unique weapons, or temporary powerups.
• Curse Cut Short: Michael'southward commentary on Richard's Spider Tank.
• Cutscene Ability to the Max: In one of the cutscenes, Richard, standing on superlative of the helicopter, uses two MML-RH multi-missile launchers simultaneously and appears to endure no recoil. In the game itself, MML-RH is a ii-handed weapon and has a recoil so powerful it can easily push the user several meters back. Justified, since this cutscene shows a DNN propaganda video.
• Cut the Knot: Possible in gameplay when enemies are standing on destructible objects. The player tin shoot out the footing they are standing on, which is typically less durable than the enemies, and let them autumn to their deaths.
• Cyber Cyclops: Both Michael'southward and Richard'south Mobile Armors seem to sport a unmarried cherry eye. ^* However, upon closer examination, Michael'southward armor has two more than cameras on the "cheeks" and Richard'south armor has four smaller cameras on the head itself and possibly six more than cameras in the shoulder pylons.
• Deadly Gas: Richard set up poison gas dispensers all over Chicago, so he could blame the attack on Metal Wolf.
• Deadpan Snarker: Jody sometimes adds deadpan observations in certain situations of Michael'south missions.

  [US Regular army soldiers armed with rocket launchers storms the hugger-mugger Air Strength 1 hanger]
  Jody: "Well lookie here... more 'guests'. Well, I approximate they won't be voting for you next term."

• Deflector Shields: Equipped on the giant spider-bot in New York.
• Despotism Justifies the Means: Richard just wants to exist president, period, and doesn't care how much the nation suffers under his dominion.
• Die, Chair, Dice!: Metallic Wolf Chaos's gameplay revels in destructibility. About every inanimate object in any given stage, ranging from barrels, fences, concrete walls, street signs, parked vehicles, and even trees can exist demolished by Metallic Wolf's weapons, charging into them, or air stomping them to oblivion. Even your secondary end-phase rankings grades you based on how much property damage you've done and how much money the impairment was worth.
• Difficulty Levels: Upon clearing the game and resuming from the cleared game relieve file, you can access 2 more difficulty levels: Fever!, which is the same as the Normal mode only with UNLIMITED AMMO, and Hell mode, which makes the enemies and bosses deal 50% more harm and have l% more than health.
• Dissimile:

  Richard: "What exercise yous think of my cute lil' pet? Thanks to him, the people of New York City are right now festively... uh... Running around and trying to escape! Uh, it's similar a big ol' carnival, it's similar Mardi Gras, in New York or something, heh heh heh..."

• Asymmetric Retribution: The Regime Policy Promotion Section's final broadcast announces that the following are subject to arrest and execution - Insurgents, Metal Wolf sympathizers, their families, their friends and acquaintances, anyone who has ever attended whatever form of school with them and any co-workers.
• Dual Boss: Try Triple Boss in the Phoenix stage as you take on three Michael'due south erstwhile comrades manning Mobile Armors as they concur a sneaky shootout for y'all in a Wild West-themed locale. Y'all likewise a fight a dual dominate confronting Castina and Dorsey in Las Vegas.
• Globe-Shattering Kaboom: Dossier on the Ultimate Weapon states, that the megamissile information technology carries equally the concluding resort has a payload equivalent of "30,000 times World'due south entire nuclear stockpile - enough godlike power to shatter the planet".
• Easter Egg: If you walk around on top of the space colony, when the Ultimate Weapon prepares to fire the nuclear missile at the USA, you can see "Metal Wolf Chaos" written on colony's glass roof.
• Eagleland: This game is drowning in it, and information technology shows: 1up has labeled this as the Number 1 Most Insanely Patriotic Game. And Michael Wilson is the Number 1 President.
• Lift Action Sequence: The finale, which has you lot fighting off enemy Mobile Armors on and off on a Space Elevator.
• Aristocracy Mooks: The Cyborg enemies, unmanned Mobile Armor troopers that are capable of taking a lot of penalization unlike standard infantry units, and wield college powered weapons.
• Endgame+: After clearing the game, players tin can not simply revisit previously cleared levels, but can play the 2 difficulty options (Fever! and Hell) to uncover the game's Mail-Terminate Game Content.
• Engrish: Bizarre version. The dialogue is actually pretty adept English; information technology'southward just that information technology is horrifically cheesy (only not necessarily bad) English. Having tons of phrases conspicuously translated from Japanese Stock Phrases, which few Americans would use in actual conversation, is a big gene.
• Equipment-Based Progression: In Metal Wolf Anarchy, players become stronger through investing and then developing higher-powered weapons for their arsenal, starting from onetime-fashioned or standard military-issue firearms to advanced loftier-tech ones. However in some instances it is mandatory for the player to upgrade their weapons not only considering what they demand to destroy will shake off most of the harm, but in situations where the role player is on a time limit (e.g. Chicago, Liberty Island), they wouldn't be able to put out enough damage to destroy their targets in time or simply run out of ammo. Players can as well upgrade Metallic Wolf'southward Shield, Boost, and Burst Meters by collecting Energy Pods hidden throughout the stages.
• Everything Breaks: And unlocking a couple of underground weapons demands that you S-Rank the amount of belongings damage you exercise throughout the course of the game.
• The Evil Army: Though they are always referred to as the "coup d'etat forces", most of the entire United States Armed services seems to be in on the coup.
• Evil Chancellor: Richard demonstrates once again that "Vice President of the Usa" is a modernistic manner to say "1000 Vizier."
• Evil Laugh: Richard lets ane loose almost every fourth dimension he and Michael encounter each other.
• Evil Is Hammy: Richard. He has some restraint when speaking in public, but when he interacts with Michael he has admittedly no restraint, breaking into an Evil Laugh and overacting similar an 80's cartoon villain.
• Exploding Barrels: Ruby fuel drums with a flammable sign can exist shot down and cause large explosions, harming anything caught in the nail and can be effective to clear out big number of enemies or obstacles.
• Faux Affably Evil: Richard talks to Michael as if they were one-time friends, despite having cipher merely envy and antipathy for the latter.
• Fictional Analogue: DNN serves as this for CNN although their way of journalism is more similar to Flim-flam News.
• Fighting Your Friend: Michael ends up fighting a lot of his old friends from the army. They don't come out well.
• Fire-Breathing Weapon: The Flamethrower-type weapons, in a nutshell. These weapons withal require both easily to operate and swallow Boost Meter along with their own fuel, but can roast many enemies to cinders, especially heavily armored ones and live ammo-resistant structures.
• For the Evulz: There is no political or ideologically charged motivation for whatsoever and all heinous deeds committed by Richard during his short tenure every bit the acting president.
• Friendly Fireproof: Zig-zagged with POWs. If you lot destroy their cages with not-explosive weapons or by ramming them, none of the prisoners volition even be scratched, no matter how much dakka volition you pump out. If you endeavor to do information technology with explosives or Shockwave Stomp, however, anybody in the muzzle will die. Thankfully, there are warnings about that written on the cages.
• Gameplay Grading: Y'all are graded in four criteria upon immigration a stage: 1000.O. Points (how many enemies y'all defeated), Damage (how much damage you lot've taken), Blitz Philharmonic Points (scoring "Prissy!" and "Cool!" kills), and Chain Combo Points (how much combos you were able to rack upwards), which affects how much funds and rare metals you receive after the stage. There are besides secondary grading criteria that comprehend other areas such clear time, property harm, ammo used, and then forth.
• Gatling Proficient: The later end of the Automobile Gun category of weapons are fabricated upwardly of miniguns, with variants that can fire off even more bullets on their ain.

• The Goomba: Some of the Soldier enemy types, some of which often comport weapons that inappreciably pose a threat to Metallic Wolf and tin easily be gunned or stomped down.
• Goomba Stomp: Surprisingly effective confronting buildings and stationary structures.
• Free English:
  • While about of the English language is quite skilful, the song titles on the soundtrack are simply strange. "The President Spirit"? "Moduration City"? "Assign Monk"? "Dept Blue"? Yeah...
  • In that location are a few mistakes outside song titles, however. "Aim for the caterpillar - kill the legs outset, that's an iron-clad battle tactic" indeed.
• Footing Pound: Players can perform one by pressing the Y/Triangle or X/Square button depending the controller layout while airborne, which can deal damage to anything unfortunate enough to be underneath Metal Wolf. Afterward obtaining enough Energy Pods, Metallic Wolf's air stomps proceeds an eletro-magnetic field upon impact.
• Guide Dang It!: Many of the game's items and POWs are usually hidden in straightforward locations, nevertheless, there are a couple of these collectibles that are very well subconscious, often existence in places many wouldn't suspect to await at.
• Guns Akimbo: Metal Wolf can duel-wield many one-handed weapons with both hands, including weapons that would require two hands by humans such as shotguns, assault rifles, and miniguns. Some weapon types however, such as Railguns, Flamethrowers, and Multimissible Launchers, use upward both hand slots.
• Gun Porn: Male child howdy does this game give you lots of guns to play around with in your mission to liberate America.
• Ham-to-Ham Combat: Tons of it.
• Hard Fashion Perks: Hell mode makes the enemies even stronger, but gives opportunities to uncover hidden unlockables that weren't in the Normal mode, and clearing a stage for the first timer rewards you with a new suit for Metal Wolf.
• Heart Container: Free energy Pods, which will increase Metal Wolf's maximum Shield, Boost, and Burst Meters for every v the player picks upward. The Energy Pods tin can be found hidden in stages or from rescuing POWs.
• Heel–Face up Turn: Peter MacDonald spends most of the game every bit a reporter on Richard's side, until he sees Michael stop a behemothic tank from destroying the Statue of Liberty. So he proceeds to claim that he was always a supporter of Michael.
• Homing Projectile: Missile Launchers can lock-onto an enemy and track them down once fired. Some enemy mechs and military vehicles also utilise homing missiles against Metal Wolf, which tin can be shot from the air by shooting at them.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Jody seems to relish watching her dominate wreak havoc across the country a little also much.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Michael withal thinks there's some good left in Richard despite how the latter tried to drinking glass America. Richard only laughs at him for information technology in the ending.
• Hot-Blooded: Super robot-levels of it.
• Humongous Mecha: While almost of them are Mini-Mecha, the game doesn't shy abroad from these in the least.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: Metal Wolf carries a downright airheaded number of guns
• Immoral Journalist: Peter MacDonald, an antagonist releasing propaganda for Richard.
• Incoming Ham: Every unmarried time Richard shows up.
• Invulnerable Attack: The Blaze Attack non just allows you to unload a barrage of every weapon stored in Metal Wolf's backpack without using ammo, but you're too immune to enemy fire while the set on is active.
• Joke Weapon: The game's unusual weapons which fire strange ammunition that would otherwise be impossible in real-life. Many of these weapons are weaker than most guns but accept some bonus effect to them (e.g. increased item driblet rate, increment Burst accuse charge per unit) to compensate.
• Landmarking the Subconscious Base: The Air Force Ane is housed in an hush-hush hangar below the White House, and the rails is beneath the Reflecting Pool, which splits apart when the plane needs to take off.
• Big Ham: Michael and Richard Chew the Scenery: Though, hither, it'southward not so much every bit chewing every bit stuff starts spontaneously exploding around them.
• Laughably Evil: Richard Hawk constantly spews cheesy lines with a smug and sarcastic tone, all while beingness a sociopathic dictator.
• Lethal Joke Item: Some of the joke weapons, such as the chimera blower, surprisingly have a high impairment rating and for the bubble blower, it'southward classified every bit small arms and so it tin exist used as to lay waste upon enemies and besides freeing hostages.
• Lighter and Softer: Considerably, compared to practically every Armored Core title barring Formula Front. (And if we're counting From Software'south collaborative works, a couple notches softer than Some other Century's Episode too.)
• Life Meter: The Shield Meter, indicated by light-green power units with secondary light-green meter underneath. Players commencement with Shield Units, each worth 1,000 HP each, but can increment information technology through picking upwardly Energy Pods hidden throughout each stage or rescuing POWs. The green meter tin recover over time if players tin avert damage, just it will non recover any lost units of shield.
• Limit Break: The Blaze Attack, complete with Hot-Blooded shouting and More Dakka by unloading every weapon y'all take on your mech!

  HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW?!? [unloads every weapon in his backpacks]

• Ludicrous Precision: Jody apartment-out guesses it volition take the Alcatraz Cannon four minutes to recharge. This turns out to be accurate to the nearest hundredth of a second.
• Macross Missile Massacre: Your Multimissile Launchers, which can fire a barrage of missiles that can exist an effective oversupply command weapon or deal high damage to a single locked-on target. Some of your enemies and afterward bosses are no slouches in this department with their ain swarming missile attacks either.
• Fabricated of Explodium: Every machine you lot fight in the game explodes when defeated.
• Mana Meter: The Outburst Meter, indicated by the circular blueish gauge. Information technology fills upward as Michael defeats enemies or picking up the Burst Unit pick-ups, and once the meter is full, players can unleash the Bonfire Attack to assault enemies past unloading every weapon in forepart of Metal Wolf.
• Marked Bullet: Richard's nuclear missile on the space colony is inscribed with the words "Merry Christmas" in cursive, although the story isn't set around the holiday.
• Meaningful Name: Richard Militarist and motion picture star Money-Coin Aureate. No, seriously.
• Meta Mecha: Richard Hawk's quadrupedal mecha in the final battle.
• Meta Multiplayer: Online leaderboards were added for the XD remaster, which allows players to compete on who tin can rack up the highest points in a phase.
• Mini-Mecha: Metal Wolf and other mobile armors are only double the size of human infantry.
• Mirror Dominate: Richard Hawk, in the penultimate level.
• Mission Command: Jody feeds the President with information and banter.
• Mirrored Confrontation Shot: In nearly every cutscene where Michael and Richard knuckles it out, in that location volition exist a shot of their suits striking each other in the aforementioned pose.
• Monster Compendium: The game features a compendium of enemies and bosses you lot've encountered throughout the game along with some additional information well-nigh them.
• Monumental Impairment:
  • Michael'southward very get-go activeness in the game is blowing upwards a Metal Wolf-sized hole on the White Business firm'south facade, with the explosion presumably ruining the interior as well. Later on, the Air Force Ane grazes and destroys the roof of Lincoln Memorial as information technology's taking off from the secret base of operations under the Reflecting Pool.
  • Richard tries to practice this to the Statue of Liberty. And while it'south more of a Weaponized Landmark, Jody and Michael consider the Fight House to be this.
• Mook Maker: Some military vehicles, such every bit the M939 Cargo Trucks and the transport helicopters in the White House stage, volition acceleration and endless supply infantry of soldiers unless they're taken care of.
• More Dakka: No 1 can Always have enuff dakka, simply betwixt this and all his Macross Missile Massacre goodness, Metal Wolf sure does brand a mighty effort towards having well-nigh enough. An extra manner after chirapsia the game gives y'all unlimited ammo. Read that again: UNLIMITED. AMMO.
• Multi-Platform: The original game was an Xbox-exclusive championship, however, the XD remaster is available on PlayStation iv, Xbox One, and PC via Steam and GOG.com.
• My Country, Correct or Wrong: A number of mini-bosses were Wilson's comrades in the Insurrection, who turn down to beguile Richard Hawk despite sympathizing with Michael'southward cause.
• Non-Standard Game Over: Losing to Richard in the concluding level will result in him humiliating you lot when you are dying."Way to go, Meester President!"
  • Additionally, whatsoever level with some sort of a Timed Mission has ane such, if you lot fail to finish it in time. The Alcatraz Cannon willing to shoot San Francisco, the Warner will ram the Statue of Freedom, the poison gases flooding Chicago killing innocent civilians and being blamed for it, and so on.
• Noodle Incident: While information technology's hinted at that Michael's presidency, Richard's evilness, and about every involved political party'southward past is continued to a disharmonize called the Arizona Conflict or the Arizona Insurrection, nosotros are never shown or told about what exactly happened there. All we are told (as an bated, no less) is that Michael received a Congressional Medal of Honor during that conflict. If Armored Cadre is any indication, Arizona attempted to secede from the Union only to be met with the super-weapons of the U.S., which included Michael's mobile armor.
• No Cutscene Inventory Inertia: Completely averted. Cutscenes brandish Michael's suit with the pare and weapons equipped past the player.
• No Name Given: None of the piloted mecha are really given names. The boss fight health bars describes them as "Mobile Armor" for whoever their pilot is. Fifty-fifty the player's machine is cryptic, with "Metallic Wolf" existence seemingly the name the media gives Michael himself after Richard'due south propaganda campaign gets in gear.
• No Pronunciation Guide: Richard at one point comments almost having his afternoon tea. For some reason, he mispronounces "Darjeeling" tea as "Darjileeng."
• Not Quite Flight: Players can use Metal Wolf'south boosters to hover or dash in mid-air for as long equally their Boost or Shield Meter tin last.
• Non-Then-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Richard Hawk claims he's trying to improve America by alternative the weak and lazy. Then he tries to nuke the entire planet out of spite for his rival, showing that he doesn't care about anything except his own power.
• Obviously Evil: When your name is Richard Hawk and you lot look like this ◊, you're non simply Made of Evil, you're "Special Lodge" Evil.
• Ane-Liner: As well many to count. Too ludicrous to replicate hither.
• Functioning: [Blank]: Jodi gives a callname for every mission, accompanied by a drumroll. They tin can be rather odd, similar Operation Bring Mode Back to the Street in Beverly Hills.
• Oppressive States of America: Richard enacts all kinds of horrible policies, similar selling his ain citizens as slaves, testing weapons on civilians, enacting martial law to take down that heinous terrorist, and edifice an orbital nuke to burn down at the country in example he loses. Averted when Michael defeats him and takes dorsum the White House.
• Our Presidents Are Different: Michael is President Action distilled to its raw class and equipped with a Mini-Mecha, while Richard is a straight-upward President Evil.
• Patriotic Fervor: Only because it's a Japanese video game, it's more like Hot-Blooded translated into the earth of politics.
• Pop the Tires: Resistance Commander tells you to aim for the caterpillar of the giant tank, called Warner, in order to slow the machine downwards and give you lot more time to destroy it earlier it reaches the Statue of Liberty.
• Power-Up: Found in certain containers or dropped past enemies, players tin pick power-ups such as Shield Units to recover lost Shield Meter, Burst Units to fill up the Outburst Meter, Law-breaking and Defense force Augments that temporarily boosts attack and defence power respectively, ammo for certain types of weapons, and bonus money and rare metal option-ups.
• Propaganda Automobile: This trope has been an announcement from the Regime Policy Promotion Department, where our motto, "Justice over Theory," is your motto.
• Protection Mission: The Statue of Liberty and White Business firm missions require the player to win without letting either structure's health bar go emptied.
• Psycho Supporter: While Jody doesn't really do anything outside her support role, her dialogue reaches Axe-Crazy levels with the way she cheers on your carnage during dominate fights, and shows a honey for violence even Michael doesn't share. Then there's her alien-themed rendition of "Ten Fiddling Indians".
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "I! RICHARD Hawk! Will UPHOLD! AMERICAN! JUSTICE! WITHOUT! FAIL!"
• Regal Is Powerful: The GOG.com pre-lodge skin, Stargaze, which paints Metallic Wolf in a deep purple color with stars resembling a galaxy.
• Rank Inflation:
  • Your end-stage rankings are graded based on your performance, with each criteria being given a letter rank. From worst to best: Due east, D, C, B, A, and S.
  • Many of your weapons' stats are graded based on a letter class, betwixt E through S, however some stats such as Firepower or Starting Chapters have a simple number figure.
• Rage Helm: Metallic Wolf itself has antennae and markings that brand its caput resemble a heavily stylized wolf'south.
• Rated M for Manly: President Michael Wilson must reclaim America using his All-American Mini-Mecha "Metal Wolf", a ton of guns, and HIS Called-for Honey OF Freedom AND JUSTICE!
• Ray Gun: A very retro-looking one, used by Greys. After all Greys are captured, it becomes possible to develop those ray guns for Metallic Wolf's usage as a RAYG Pistol-type weapon.
• Redshirt Army: The Resistance is by and large useless, as It's Upward to You.
• Refuge in Audacity: And how!
  • It's so over-the-top that it's the more subdued moments that really jump out at you.
  • The game starts with the President in a Mini-Mecha bursting out of the White House with a extremely Engrishy "Allow'S PARRRTYYYYYYYYY!" and goes up from there.
• Revolvers Are Just Better: Zig-zagged. Some of your starting weapons are magnums, withal they are later outclassed by newer modern standard-event handguns farther into the weapons development, just after players can develop a newer set of magnums that are some of the virtually powerful of the Handgun-blazon weapons.
• Rocket Dial: The President's mecha is equipped with i of these.
• Rule of Cool: Everything that Michael does.
• Save the Villain: In the ending, Michael tries and fails to salve Richard from getting killed in the temper while claiming that the latter must love America deep downwards. Richard just mocks his one-time ally's sense of justice.
• Say My Name: "MICHAEL!!!" "RICHAAAAAAAAARD!!!"
• Sean Connery Is Almost to Shoot You: The game's cover art, featuring Metallic Wolf pointing a handgun at the viewer/player.
• Sexy Secretary: Jody, of class. Also a Sassy Secretary.
• Shield-Bearing Mook: The aptly named Shield Soldiers, whom can block some of your attacks and can withstand Metal Wolf charging into them.
• Shield Surf: Michael does this when escaping from the infinite colony.
• Shout-Out:
  • Amid other things, the massive assault helicopter/floating fortress is named Olajiwon, after Hakeem Olajuwon, the star of the Houston Rockets during the 90's who led the squad to winning dorsum-to-back earth championships. The concrete pattern of the Olajuwon bears a striking resemblance to the Variblune from Himitsu Sentai Gorenger.
  • In the outset stage, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool splits in the middle and then the Air Force One takes off from under it, but like in Mazinger Z.
  • The TLT750 "TWISTER" is a weapon that blows deadly tornadoes, and its weapon clarification mentions information technology was manufactured in a Kansas-based weapons facility.
  • An achievement in the XD remaster is called "One Punch Wolf". Another achievement, "Medal of Accolade", features an icon of a bald eagle wearing a familiar pair of sunglasses. There's also i named "This is Metal Wolf".
• Short-Range Shotgun: The Shotgun line of weapons, many of which are defective in range, but their spread tin deal a decent amount of damage to enemies upwardly close and tin assist intercept oncoming missile attacks.
• Sky Surfing: More than like atmospheric re-entry surfing .
• The Social Darwinist: Richard claims his deportment are for the sake of culling America'due south weak.
• The Sociopath: Richard Hawk, though he is more than a cartoonish parody of the sociopathic diversity of villains.
• Sore Loser: Yous can't go much sorer than nuking the country because the rightful president took information technology back from you. Additional points for doing it with a planet-buster megamissile..
• Spider Tank: In several variations:
  • Small kamikaze drones, which volition spring onto you and blow upwards as presently as they get close enought to you.
  • Slightly bigger spider-like robots, which can fire machine gun on the move or plough into a stationary cannon turret.
  • A gigantic democratic weapon nether the name "Casparaitis", which was deployed by Richard for field test in New York and treats citizens of it equally republic of guinea pigs. Information technology'due south intended to be a Hopeless Boss Fight until some targets are destroyed to disable its Deflector Shields and a gun that can kill the player in seconds.
  • The Ultimate Weapon, upon receiving enough damage, switches from tank style into a spider-like walker. It has both Deflector Shields and several miniaturized wave cannons, in addition to launching craploads of missiles. And this time, there are no targets to exist destroyed to disable the shields and guns of information technology.
• Spiritual Antonym: To the Armored Core serial, which features a much more serious, futuristic, and sometimes mail-apocalyptic real robot storylines throughout the series, in-depth mecha customization features, mechs that handle like walking tanks, missions that tasks players to perform diverse objectives while being mindful of their resources, and a grading system where your operation in boxing, whether its victory or failure, can affect your income from completing missions. Metal Wolf Anarchy, on the other mitt, features a story that is an over-the-height parody of American politics bordering on the super robot genre, stripping downward the customization features to only unlocking and advancing weapons evolution (and unlockable palette swaps post-game), mechs having the mobility of a beefed-up Powered Armor, arcade-styled gameplay that encourages players to crusade equally much destruction as possible, and lacks whatsoever long-term penalties for failure.
• Spiritual Successor: Information technology'due south basically Armored Core with more Called-for AMERICAN JUSTICE!
  • And later From Software game Ninja Blade is the spiritual successor to Metallic Wolf Anarchy, doing to Ninja Gaiden what this did to Armored Cadre. The game is gear up chronologically earlier than Metal Wolf Anarchy, and Michael Wilson (well, his father at least) gets a Previous Histrion-Graphic symbol Cameo equally the thespian'due south boss. He'south taken hostage by a villainous ninja halfway through the game, and an entire cutscene is devoted to him breaking out of his bonds and beating the shit out of the ninja with his bare easily. (Yes, the President gets kidnapped by a ninja, simply he's a bad enough dude to save himself.)
  • Gameplay-wise Armored Core 5 is a tweaked Metal Wolf Chaos with some Chrome Hounds thrown in.
• Sprint Meter: The Boost Meter, represented by the yellow power meter. It drains as players use the boosters of Metal Wolf to get effectually places quicker and dashing, but will steadily eat the Boost Meter and eventually fire into their Shield Meter if they continue to use the boosters afterwards depleting the former, merely stops draining if the Shield Meter is nearly burnt out. Weapons that uses free energy rounds, besides equally sure weapon types such Flamethrowers and Railgun-type weapons, too crave energy from the Boost Meter.
• Strawman News Media: DNN is no longer bodily concerned with existent journalism and instead acts entirely as Richard's propaganda mouthpiece.
• Stuff Bravado Up: Almost everything explodes when shot plenty.
• Subsystem Damage: Possible on as early as Olajiwon (though chances are, you'll down it without even knowing almost this), likely to happen on cruiser and is required on Warner (if you don't have weapons with very high damage to destroy it quickly, you better listen to Resistance Commander, lest the tank either shoot the Statue of Freedom to pieces or ram information technology before it's destroyed).
• Super Drowning Skills: A real pain in the ass when dealing with a cruiser off the coast of Miami requires you to take aim from perfectly destructible gunboats parked just outside the shallow h2o Metallic Wolf tin safely navigate.
• Surprisingly Good English: While the writing may be fantastically cheesy Engrish, the actual vocalisation actors are native English speakers.
• Tank Goodness: Tank-Not-So-Goodness when they are your enemy and tin have as much of a beating every bit much as they can dish out.
• Taunt Push button: The D-pad can exist used for Michael to shout various phrases and sounds.

• Theme Naming: The "RH" Vice-President variant of weapons are named later the Zodiacs of western astrology.
• They Fight Crime!: He'south the President of the Great United States of America. She's his secretary with an appetite for random destruction.
• twenty Minutes into the Future: The game pulls the standard cryptic date of "20XX", but since the player character is the 47th President the game is guaranteed to accept place (as of 2018) somewhere between 2024 and 2040.
• Trailers Always Spoil: The release engagement trailer for the XD remaster showed some moments of the game's climax and some of its quotes, such every bit the game'due south final boss and Michael making a last-ditch effort to save Richard from burning into re-entry after his defeat.
• Unexplained Recovery: Characters regularly survive helicopter explosions, paw waving information technology past saying "we have thorough knowledge of how to escape", or even simply "I have somehow managed to escape!".
• Updated Re-release: Metal Wolf Anarchy XD features remastered visuals, widescreen support, gameplay tweaks, and a new salve system over the original.
• Video Game Flamethrowers Suck: Subverted; while some Flamethrower type weapons accept woefully short range, require your Boost Meter to burn, and use up ammo quickly, simply can brand upwards for information technology past sheer damage output, can be effective confronting structures that are resilient to alive ammo, and whatever is attack fire will take damage over fourth dimension for a while.
• Villain with Proficient Publicity: Richard blames Metal Wolf for every barbarism he commits, calling it meaner than Satan.
• Vocal Dissonance: For such a badass president, much like Theodore Roosevelt, Michael has a somewhat high-pitched phonation.
• Voice with an Net Connection: Some of the characters, especially Jody, communicate with Michael through military machine communication line.
• Moving ridge-Movement Gun: The Alcatraz Cannon, an anti-terrorism weapon. As the narrator on the Let's Play video above comments on it:

  "I but dear the idea of building a massive particle cannon to fight terrorism. I tin just moving picture some poor sap with a dirty bomb in a shopping mall, diddled to smithereens by giant light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation arms. Wouldn't be out of place in this game."

  • Chief gun of Casparaitis besides qualifies:

  "Take A Seize with teeth FROM ITS SUPER Free energy Wave PHASER. Information technology'LL Get YOU Loftier ENOUGH TO Achieve HEAVEN!"

• Weaponized Landmark: Edifice a giant electromagnetic cannon inside Alcatraz, 'nuff said. Apart from cladding the White House in armor and weapons to brand it the Fight House.
• What Measure Is a Mook?: Who knows who many perfectly innocent Americans, non to mention soldiers just doing their jobs, Michael blows up in his fight for freedom? More chiefly, who cares? Go blow more of information technology up! And don't worry nigh killing innocents. Merely the really evil people die. Barring Richard himself, presumably.
• What the Hell, Hero?: If you try to destroy POW cages with explosives or Shockwave Stomp, you will kill everyone in them. Jodie volition even scold you for that!
• Give-and-take Salad Championship: The game's name is "Metal Wolf Chaos", which tin come across as this if you don't know that in this game, the main mecha is named "Metal Wolf" and in that location'due south a lot of chaos.

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