VIDEO: Watch the trailer for Metal: Hellsinger above. Also on YouTube.David Goldfarb popped into the PC Gaming Show today to show off some gameplay taken from the studio's upcoming rhythm-FPS Metal: Hellsinger. The game tells the tale of a demon called The Unknown, who descends into the pits of the Thousand Hells, guns and music blasting with equal intensity, to seek vengeance upon the Red Judge.Metal: Hellsinger can be played as a straightforward FPS, but matching the action to the music “is a huge part of the play experience,” Goldfarb told me in a recent interview. “When you're playing Doom, you hit a kind of zen if you're really good, you're just moving around and shooting stuff—except in Doom, you're not following an external rhythm,” he said.”You can play [Metal: Hellsinger] the way you play a shooter if that's what you desire. But the most effective way to play is the beat matching, and getting into the song, and be killing guys on the beat, and reloading on the beat, and dodging on the beat. And then doing it with different weapons that have different rhythms—because then you're in that zen state. So it's a shooter in lots of ways, and then it's this other thing in other ways.”Goldfarb described Metal: Hellsinger's Thousand Hells as like “old album covers,” and there's no question that Ronnie James Dio's face would be right at home on any of the backdrops in the pre-alpha demo I played. There's plenty of the usual fire and brimstone, but the game world will also include frozen wastelands and other realms of “madness,” and all of the the music—all of it very metal—is written specifically for the game so it can be layered in “tiers” based on your performance. At a minimum, there's a basic beat to roll with, but the higher your rhythmic kill count climbs, the more complex the soundtrack becomes, with lyrics dropping in when all your balls are out.”The better you do [in other games], the crazier things get,” Goldfarb said. “In our case, the better you do, the crazier the song gets.”
VIDEO: Watch the trailer for Metal: Hellsinger above. Also on YouTube.
David Goldfarb popped into the PC Gaming Show today to show off some gameplay taken from the studio’s upcoming rhythm-FPS Metal: Hellsinger. The game tells the tale of a demon called The Unknown, who descends into the pits of the Thousand Hells, guns and music blasting with equal intensity, to seek vengeance upon the Red Judge.
