Urban Assault - Metropolis Dawn
The official and premier gaming community, files repository database, and information/knowledge archive for the game Microsoft Urban Assault from the year 1998.
Welcome to the official Metropolis Dawn website!
The authentic and premier data source for Microsoft Urban Assault game information, knowledge database, as well as file repository from the year 1998.
Information
This is the main community and information website for the video game Microsoft Urban Assault and the Metropolis Dawn Expansion Pack. Urban Assault is a highly unique and innovative Full 3D Action (First-Person Shooter) and RTS (Real-Time Strategy) hybrid genre simulation video game that was developed by the Potsdam and Berlin-based German software technology company TerraTools, and published by the Microsoft Games Studio in the year 1998. Metropolis Dawn is the fully official and authentic, but unreleased expansion for Urban Assault. Urban Assault is officially translated with full localisation assets into the following 4 languages: English, German, French, and Japanese.
Urban Assault simulates full-scale vehicular combat and warfare set in the near future with post-apocalyptic settings, where the human race is nearly extinct following the chain of the catastrophic events known as the Big Mistake. On this brand new planet Earth, the unrelenting wars within the increasingly hostile environments have become entirely roboticised via accelerated technological development of various advanced unmanned military vehicles and drone hardware with fully autonomous artificial intelligence modules, which are collectively data-linked under integrated battle networks and command-and-control systems of the powerful and formidable, state-of-the-art Host Station war machines.
Mission
Our new website here is the direct successor to the original Stoudson Corporation website; a central hub of the Urban Assault information and knowledge base that went offline in the year 2020. Our primary host servers and core file repositories are located in Europe (Germany) and our main communication languages are English and German. The website also uses premium software and hosting services to provide an optimal environment for all Urban Assault game activities and discussions. The main purpose of our new website is reinstating the central UA information and knowledge base. If you have any questions about the game, please do not hesitate to ask us.
The website is still under construction, and currently our main objectives are restoring the lost assets and content from the old UA websites. We are a fully self-funded, non-profit organisation (No Ads/No Donations/No Revenue) that also directly offers various technical support and assistance for the official Urban Assault game data and files, as well as providing the most authentic and verified Urban Assault game files and content that are perfectly safe to download and use. Lastly, the renewed Urban Assault Wiki will be reinstated at the Lexicon module section and on the new webpage domains. Other new standalone Urban Assault websites are planned in the future as well.
Disclaimer
Urban Assault™ is a trademark of Microsoft® Corporation. ©1998 Microsoft® Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Stoudson Corporation is a non-commercial, informative website for educational and entertainment purposes that focuses on various topics and contents pertaining to the video game Microsoft Urban Assault.
Notes
Interesting Trivia: The iconic word/name of 'Stoudson' is derived from the combination of a rare Scandinavian/Nordic surname 'Stoud', and a Northern European surname suffix '-son'.
As announced earlier, all website styles and themes are currently reset; the old website styles and themes will return with brand new designs and layouts in future. Please excuse the work in progress!
Last Update Date: 2025-03-09
Website Release Candidate Version 05
Recent Activities
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Schloss Charlottenburg
November 11, 2026 at 1:00 AM Posted the thread Anomalous Filebase Download Traffic.ThreadBack in October, apparently there was an unusual file download traffic activity taking place on the Filebase module of our website, as evidenced by the OpenUA Standalone Package for Trial version file having been downloaded nearly 80000 times in a quick… -
Schloss Charlottenburg
November 11, 2026 at 12:30 AM Replied to the thread UA Reforged 0.8 (Mac/Windows) and 0.9 (Quest 3 VR) released: a free remaster on OpenUA.PostHello AmeliaOfAura, welcome to the forums, and thank you for sharing a very interesting project!
I have briefly checked the project synopsis and outline, and they were quite remarkable. Especially the inclusion of full descriptions and disclaimers, as… -
nate_e_17
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AmeliaOfAura
November 10, 2026 at 10:32 AM Replied to the thread UA Reforged 0.8 (Mac/Windows) and 0.9 (Quest 3 VR) released: a free remaster on OpenUA.PostThank you both, Dad and WINDSGN, that really means a lot!
If you try it, I'd love to hear how it runs on your setup: which platform, and anything that looks wrong or breaks. Bug reports are very welcome here or on the Discord. -
WINDSGN
November 9, 2026 at 5:14 AM Replied to the thread UA Reforged 0.8 (Mac/Windows) and 0.9 (Quest 3 VR) released: a free remaster on OpenUA.PostCongratulations, Amelia! 😄 This is genuinely impressive work, seeing Urban Assault brought to modern platforms with improved graphics, controller support, and even a fully playable VR experience is fantastic. -
WINDSGN
November 9, 2026 at 5:12 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to AmeliaOfAura’s post in the thread UA Reforged 0.8 (Mac/Windows) and 0.9 (Quest 3 VR) released: a free remaster on OpenUA.Here's the VR trailer if you'd like a look: x.com/AmeliaOfAura/status/2119510173597274160
The full launch thread starts here: x.com/AmeliaOfAura/status/2119509966633697313 -
Dad
November 8, 2026 at 11:47 PM Replied to the thread UA Reforged 0.8 (Mac/Windows) and 0.9 (Quest 3 VR) released: a free remaster on OpenUA.PostWow will check this out for sure -
AmeliaOfAura
November 8, 2026 at 8:40 PM Replied to the thread UA Reforged 0.8 (Mac/Windows) and 0.9 (Quest 3 VR) released: a free remaster on OpenUA.PostHere's the VR trailer if you'd like a look: x.com/AmeliaOfAura/status/2119510173597274160
The full launch thread starts here: x.com/AmeliaOfAura/status/2119509966633697313 -
AmeliaOfAura
ThreadNovember 8, 2026 at 8:12 PM Hi everyone,
I've just released UA Reforged, a free remaster of Urban Assault built on the OpenUA engine. Thank you for keeping UA alive all these years. This project wouldn't exist without OpenUA and this community.
What's in it:
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nate_e_17
November 6, 2026 at 8:41 PM Has received the trophy Taerkasten.Trophyplaceholder