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Scrapland for Xbox Original
In Scrapland for Xbox Original, you arrive as the robot D-Tritus in Chimera, a city full of machines that display remarkably human behaviour. His work as a reporter becomes entangled in a series of murders that disrupt society. You view this action adventure from a third-person perspective. You talk to inhabitants, investigate assignments and switch robot bodies to use other characters’ abilities. A new form changes more than your appearance: it can also provide access to places D-Tritus cannot simply enter himself.
Outside the buildings, you enter flying ships for races, chases and armed confrontations. You can collect and assemble ships with different engines and weapons. This makes quick reactions only part of the challenge: your choice of components also matters when an assignment calls for speed or firepower. The Xbox version has target locking through the left trigger. This keeps an opponent in view while you manoeuvre, helping you follow movement through three-dimensional airspace.
You play the story campaign alone. This Xbox edition also includes separate local ship matches for two players on a split screen; each player needs an Xbox controller. This is not a cooperative campaign. Scrapland does not support Xbox Live battles on Xbox. The alternation between conversations, borrowed robot abilities and aerial combat gives the murder investigation a constantly changing pace.
Region and language
Our Xbox Original games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Scrapland for Xbox Original includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Scrapland
The Spanish studio MercurySteam developed Scrapland, which first appeared on PC in 2004 and came to Xbox in 2005. Enlight published it in North America, while Deep Silver handled the European edition. American McGee’s name features prominently alongside the game, but he was executive producer rather than its sole creator. The original announcements name MercurySteam as the development team. McGee contributed to elements including characters and dialogue and helped bring the project to an international audience.
The design combines a murder mystery with a robot society instead of using machines only as enemies. Inhabitants have professions, interests and eccentricities; D-Tritus can assume their forms and reach different sides of the city. Ships add a second playing space, with construction, racing and combat above the streets. The adventure therefore switches between understanding characters and mastering speed, weapons and the space around your ship.
Target locking played a prominent role in the 2005 release announcements for the Xbox controls. This was a concrete adaptation to playing with a controller. Lead designer Enric Álvarez also confirmed that this version did not support Xbox Live and used split-screen play for multiplayer. This original console edition must therefore be distinguished from the PC networking features and from 2021’s Scrapland Remastered. Those reuse the name and world, but that later edition is not what is on this Xbox disc.
Similar games for Xbox Original
Beyond Good & Evil shares the investigation from a journalistic role and the alternation of exploration with vehicle action. Jade collects photographic evidence, whereas D-Tritus mainly uses other robot forms and builds or takes over ships. Both worlds have inhabitants with recognisable problems. However, Jade’s investigation follows different tools and story events from Scrapland’s murder case and aerial battles; a shared profession does not mean identical gameplay.
Like Scrapland, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath uses a strange society and a protagonist who carries out assignments for others. Stranger hunts bounties with live ammunition and switches between third-person movement and aimed first-person shooting. Scrapland stays closer to disguises, conversations and ship battles. Both mix humour with a world where not everything is fair, but their tools and combat distances differ clearly.
Destroy All Humans! also offers a non-human protagonist, disguise changes and aerial action above inhabited areas. Crypto uses his disguise to deceive humans and enters a flying saucer to cause destruction. D-Tritus borrows robot abilities to advance his investigation and assembles different ships. Similar tools therefore serve different purposes: alien domination versus a murder mystery within a robot society.
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge shares the aerial combat and the importance of tracking an opponent while turning. There, you fly propeller aircraft through an alternative 1930s, following Nathan Zachary’s adventure. Scrapland uses assembled science-fiction ships and interrupts flying with conversations and robot forms on the ground. Both combine freedom of movement with weapons, but only Scrapland connects this to infiltrating a robot city.
Grand Theft Auto III shares a city where you travel around, take over vehicles and accept assignments. Liberty City centres on human crime and street traffic, whereas Chimera focuses on robots, changing forms and aerial traffic. Scrapland also has a clear murder investigation as its central thread. The similarity therefore lies in free movement between assignments, not identical controls, vehicle types or crime stories. In Scrapland, a different robot form also changes your available options along the way.
