This is a game filled with nostalgia and quite epic. We don't see much Mecha games nowadays.
You feel really powerful as a giant robot walking into a futuristic maze-like city, playing your role as an anti-hero who fights the powerful tyranny of SovKhan while grabbing cars and even people, to throw them at walls or other robots.
There's no pause, it's all action.

Recommending this game in these days is hard, not many people will have the will to disregard such old graphics and play it for the pure fun. But people like me, who had or still have the game CD (yes, in that magazine) will have no doubt to jump right in and own a copy. Having your old games in the cloud and updated to run on modern OS is really convenient, definitely worth the price.
And the game as a concept, I find this have a lot of potential for a remake.

Awesome game, but awful performance issues.

About 20 minutes in, game starts to slow down a lot. At this time, turning the camera too fast or having explosions on screen brings the game to a crawl. The lag gets worse and worse, to the point where silly things start to happen, like having your character fall through the terrain. Eventually it gets so bad the game just crashes.

ok, just have to say this first. Don't take my lack of hours in steam as anything.
I played this game and finished it years ago when it was new and was very happy when i found it on steam recently.

Slave Zero is a classic mech game that i feel no one else has ever pulled off quite like this.
The levels are different levels of a massive populated futuristic city. when you finish the stage you either jump into a massive elevator to the next area of the city or go through blast doors.
you can use a lot of the environment as weapons.
such as the people walking around, the cars on the highways, you can destroy buildings to get iron pipes to club enemy mechs and police helicopters. you also can replenish health and ammo destroying buildings.
the levels while you would expect for a game its age are a little linear you can still explore to an extent. the game is challenging in a good way as you find better weapons to fight your foes on the enemies you have already crushed.
the boss battles are challenging and oldschool where you find the weak spot and keep attacking it when the opportunity arises. the game is also littered with lesser bosses that you just have to be quick and deal as much damage as possible.
i feel i should also mention the soundtrack. it is fantastic and compliments the game extreamly well.

ah yes, and strafe is your friend!

so happy this is now on steam as i get to relive a piece of my childhood.
if you have never played it i highly recommend it. it of course is showing its age now but that does not distract from the excellent core gameplay.

OS while i can't speak for Windows 8 i can say with pure confidence this game runs exceptionally on windows 7 and as yet i have not encountered any bugs. i do think the controlls need to be remapped for the best gaming experience. however that is down to personal preference. textures are a bit blurry but that is to be expected from a game this old. as far as i know there are no texture packs available. but that does not change the fact the game itself is still incredible. please, if you run win 8 and buy this don't hesitate to drop me a comment. i would love to know how it runs.

Aspect Ratio its pretty much locked to 4:3 but there are a myriad of resolutions to choose from that range from 640x480 to 7680x4320

i highly recommend picking it up.

11/10 - glad to be throwing humans at giant mechs once more.

This is one of those gems from the golden age that never stops being fun despite its shortcomings. It wasn't perfect when it was released, and it isn't perfect now, but at its core, it's a solid game with fun gameplay. This is also a fantastic port, so kudos to the team that brought this to Steam.

Thanks to a PC Gamer demo disc I played this game when I was a kid. The game was fun then, and its fun now! The game definitely feels easier than I remember, but a lot of old games feel that way. Some of the graphics options are not compatible with current gen hardware but that is to be expected, they are red and cannot be selected in game. The game still runs great on my three year old windows 7 hardware. I would have liked to see a few updates with it, like better textures, but it's not that important. Anyways, this is a fun linear third person shooter that reminds me of the good old days, check it out!

I remember playing this game a lifetime ago back on the dreamcast! It was a blast back then and I loved every minute of the game. I look foward to being to load it up and take another swing at it on the pc.

This is truely a game that has aged like fine wine.

A++++

FINALLY SLAVE ZERO IS ON STEAM!

This brings back memories, and after not playing it for a decade or so I am re-adjusted to the controls and playstyle in a matter of seconds.

It's a very enjoyable action shooter. Everyone must own it! But the graphics are a bit dated by today's standards. Still better than some stuff pumped out today.

If I play for a few hours back to back I'll come back to this review and add to it, but I just wanted to leave my +1 for now! And I agree with what the others have said, the Steam port for this is very good. It's just the perfect release of this game, the only thing better that they could have done would be release a sequel!

Wow I remembered this game from way back in the day. I even remember preordering this game on CD from Electronics Boutique. This was one of my favorite games back then and later the game was ported over to the Sega Dreamcast. The only problem is the old PC CD version of this game does not work on the new OS's. Glad the game was brought to Steam.

I remember when I first got this game some 14 years ago, I went into it blind and loved every moment of it. I still do. When I saw it on steam, I had to get it.

It's amusing looking at reviews from back in the day that were generally unfair to the game.

The game's essentially a run-and-gun game in 3D with cutscenes thrown in, and it lives up that description. Essentially you point your gun at things that shoot at you and hold down the mouse button while running towards the end of the game. It's more about taking part in the journey of getting through the game and enjoying the scenery than it is putting your skills to the test, and the game somehow still looks okay to this day. I think reviewers 15 years ago were expecting Slave Zero to be a different game than what it is -- but what it is is perfectly fine from my point of view.

Well, if you like run and gun games, and you want to see how they were done around the year 2000, Slave Zero is a nice experience. It's also short enough to get through in one afternon.

One of my all time classics thank you so much for brigging it back never liked another mech/scfi game ever since because the controls were off or some other reason,extremly glad a remake was made just like for MDK 1 & 2 !!

I guess dreams do come true!

Remembered this one from the days of old, fun action shooter.

This game was a large part of my childhood and i had nothing but fond memories of it. I was estatic when i saw that steam added it to the store and when i played it all those childhood memories came flooding back. If you never played it before, i highly reccomend you atleast try it.

the first game I've bought for PC .. the only bad thing is that I can only hear the sound of music and not the effect sound (SFX) T_T

any suggestions please???

If you love mecha anime or old fps games,buy it

a grate game but it lags and it might not work on your pc and it crashis but still fun for me