Steel Harbinger
Steel Harbinger is a shooter viewed from a 3/4 perspective, with live action full motion videos used to advance the storyline. Players take on the role of Miranda Bowen, a young woman mutated into a…
Steel Harbinger is a shooter developed by Mindscape, released 30 September 1996 on PlayStation.
What Steel Harbinger is
Steel Harbinger is a shooter game developed by Mindscape and released in 1996. It is available on PlayStation only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the year 2069 North America is shaken by war. Canada and Mexico are combating the United States. Not long after the start of the war, alien pods rain down from space onto North America, sprouting metallic tentacles upon landing. The tentacles attack humans and animals, transforming them instantly into monstrous alien biomechanisms (half organic compound, half machine) bent on destroying any human life they encounter. Dr. Bowen, a scientist, studies one of these pods in an attempt to learn about the alien species. The pod breaks out of control and attacks his daughter, Miranda Bowen (played by actress Wendi Kenya). Miranda escapes, but is still infected by the tentacles. Thus she…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction, thriller and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Steel Harbinger launched on 30 September 1996, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot, Circle of Blood, Wipeout XL and Mortal Kombat Trilogy.
Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot, Circle of Blood, Wipeout XL, Mortal Kombat Trilogy.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
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