''American McGee Presents: Scrapland'' is a game developed by

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, with

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as a executive producer and published by

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. A

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version was released for Microsoft Windows on December 13, 2021.

Setting

Scrapland's story is set in the robot-populated world of the same name, also known by the inhabitants as Chimera, which seems like a giant asteroid vastly industrialized as a metropolis and surrounded by a world-scaled energy field and an orbital ring, both used to control entrance and exit of the planet.

Development

According to American McGee, the game was designed and produced by Enrique Alvarez, the studio head at Mercury Steam. McGee refers to himself as a "marketing tool". Alvarez pitched the idea for ''Scrapland'' to McGee while McGee was working as an executive producer at Enlight.

Reception

''Scrapland'' received "average" reviews on both platforms according to video game

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'' criticized the Xbox version's on-foot sections, "which would appear to be in the game for the sole purpose of annoying people. Scrap indeed."

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gave the same console version a more positive review, saying "I would have liked to have seen more variety and lateral flexibility in the single-player... Overall, the game's refreshing sense of personality wins out over everything else." The editors of '' Computer Gaming World'' nominated ''Scrapland'' for their 2004 "Action Game of the Year" award, which ultimately went to '' The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay''.

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