Hellsinger

Metal: Hellsinger MSRP $39.99 “Metal: Hellsinger will be a hit with metalheads thanks to its killer soundtrack, but its lacking as both a shooter and rhythm game.” Pros Basic premise is fun Strong sound design Excellent metal soundtrack High stakes challenges Cons Restrictive…

Metal: Hellsinger is coming to the Xbox Game Pass subscription service on the same day it launches, developer The Outsiders has confirmed. Xbox Game Pass launched in 2017 and gives users access to a rotating selection of games in exchange for a monthly fee. A tweet on the official Metal: Hellsinger Twitter account yesterday (September 6) confirmed the news. “Metal: Hellsinger is available day one with @XboxGamePass,” the tweet read. “Enter the Hells on September 15 with metal and vengeance. Make them fear the beat.”…

A new month means new games are on the way to Xbox Game Pass for cloud, console, and PC. As always, the new catalog of incoming games includes multiple titles, but the easy highlight of September’s group is Metal: Hellsinger, a new first-person shooter that turns Doom into a rhythm game. Metal: Hellsinger - Official Gameplay Trailer | Game Awards 2021 Metal: Hellsinger was originally announced two years ago by its developer Funcom. The game takes players to a hellish world reminiscent of something one would see in…

Video games and heavy metal music have long shared a passing curiosity with one another. Look no further than the iconography of Doom, or Tim Schafer’s Brütal Legend, for evidence of that. But it was in the mid 00s – during the reign of music and rhythm games such as Guitar Hero – that the link was most obvious. Count me among the ranks of those who learned about Pantera and Megadeth by way of the plastic instrument.Which is why this year’s Metal: Hellsinger is on my radar. The game is a cross between a first person…

The Outsiders director David Goldfarb has shared that upcoming rhythm shooter Metal: Hellsinger is his “favourite project ever,” and the game’s original prototype was the best he’s “ever made or seen.” Speaking to NME, Goldfarb explained that Metal: Hellsinger was created when Funcom CEO Rui Casais asked if there was another game he would like to make besides Darkborn, which had just been cancelled. Goldfarb recalls describing “a metal album cover come to life: only you’re a demon and you’re slaying to the beat,” which…

First-person shooter combat can often be said to have a sort of "rhythm," with the explosive bassy blasts of rounds leaving firearms and the weighty ka-chunk of reloading adding its own percussion to action movie-like experiences. Metal: Hellsinger makes that idea its central tenet, specifically building a fast-paced arena shooter around rhythm game sensibilities. But while it might seem like shooters naturally lend themselves to a rhythm game concept, making Metal: Hellsinger work as one, while ensuring…

Player Toxicity Expected Funcom has released a new trailer for its upcoming doomsday shooter Metal: Hellsinger — the new video features the unmistakable vocals of Serj Tankian, long-time frontman of metal band System of a Down. Tankian joins a roster of metal legends that will soundtrack the next-gen shooter’s violent chaos. “What can you even say! We have so many System of a Down fans in the studio, adding Serj Tankian to our already incredible roster of vocalists feels unreal,” said David Goldfarb of developer The…

Upcoming rhythm-based first-person shooter Metal: Hellsinger will feature an original track from System Of A Down’s lead singer Serj Tankian. The news comes directly from developer The Outsiders and publisher Funcom today (May 19), which includes a statement from creative director David Goldfarb. “What can you even say! We have so many System Of A Down fans in the studio, adding Serj Tankian to our already incredible roster of vocalists feels unreal,” said Goldfarb. “He completely killed the track and made it his own…