LEGO Rock Raiders (PC)

Lego Rock Raiders was a Real-Time Strategy game published in 1999. The game focused around a team of Space Explorers, who, being only three days from returning from Earth, got pulled through an asteroid field into a wormhole. They found themselves, drained and damaged, orbiting a mysterious planet rich in Energy Crystals (needed to power the LMS Explorer), Ore (needed to repair the LMS Explorer) and strange life forms (not wanted at all). Using oversized drills and powerful equipment, the Rock Raiders exploited this planet for their survival.

It was also terribly rushed and revised many times, so a good 15 MB of the 80 MB of data for this game is unused.

Large Spiders
A very low-polygon enemy composed mostly of flat sheets. There are only three animations for it: standing, walking and an incomplete spitting animation. It appears it was supposed to crawl around and shoot webs. While it can be re-activated, the spit model is corrupted, and the function to form webs was never coded in. It was used in the PS1 version, however.

VLP Snake
A two-polygon surface with a .bmp file of a snake crawling. What it would do had it been used is unknown.

Snake
A higher-polygon version of the VLP Snake, with grey and white markings instead of blue and green. The animations for this creature are glitchy, as the game can't decide if the center of the model is in the head or the actual center of the body.

Scorpion
A small red scorpion that may have pinched Rock Raiders, had multiple "I'm being attacked" animations been coded in for the Rock Raider. This one actually appears in early images, meaning it was working.

Rock Monster Foot
A more realistic Rock Monster foot, saved as LeftFoot. The design of this foot fit how the Rock Monster had been designed in the sets. It was never textured, and was presumably cut out early in favor of a lower-polygon model.

Rock Monster Head
A poorly designed head saved as simply Head. It was later cut out for a more realistic head and an independently moving jaw.

Rock Monster Delme
A bizarre file in the Rock Monster folder. There are no traces in the animations telling what it could be. The name presumably is short for "delete me", so the artists probably meant to remove it, but never got around to it.

Unused Model Graphics
Models that are used in-game, but have alternate graphics that were not used.

Jet Skin
There is a single file in the Rock Raider folder for the pattern of Jet's leg. There was also an advertisement back in 1999 that showed several in-game Rock Raiders that were copies of Jet. Since the Rock Raider is named "Pilot", and there are unused Rock Raiders named as the other training skills, it was suspected that the trained Rock Raiders would be dressed like the Rock Raider they take their skill from.

Ice Monster Textures
The Ice Monster has a second texture set that is identical to its current one, except merged into a single file, like the Lava Monster. For some reason, the developers switched it to separate files, like the Rock Monster.

Unused Sounds
Lego Rock Raiders has LOADS of unused voices and sounds, most of which are stored in the "Newsfx" folder.

Revisional Differences
Two major prints of the game exist, one from 1999 and one from the early 2000s. The only major changes to the reprint are the following:
 * The SafeDisc copy protection and the intentionally bad sectors were removed, allowing the game to be run without the disc in the drive. However, as the game stores the music as CD audio, the music will not play if this is done.
 * The printed manual was scrapped in favor of a PDF manual.