Z: Steel Soldiers - The Frustrating and Disappointing Robot RTS (Bitmap Brothers, 2001)
Z: Steel Soldiers was the follow up to 1996's "Z", a real-time stratergy game featuring fun but dumb robots in an unspecified future war. The 2001 version is more akin to a regular RTS, but due to a long list of problems was never any fun to play. Let's take a look at Steel Soldiers and explain at a base level why it's more frustrating than it is fun. Come say hi on Discord: / discord --- 00:00 Intro 00:30 The Original Z 01:30 Steel Soldiers Overview 03:00 Problems, problems, problems 06:40 Interfacing with Failure 13:10 Unfunny 14:30 A glimmer of hope 16:00 Conclusions and Outro All footage is either recorded by me or taken from official trailers or demo reels. Images are either my own, AI generated, Free and Royalty-Free Stock or from Wikipedia. Backing Music is from the YouTube creator audio library. The script is my own work, and the voice over is me.

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