Metallica Videogame Planned

Thanks to an anonymous reader pointing to this Reuters/Yahoo story with more details on the newly announced Metallica-licensed videogame. Apparently, the 2005-due title, which other sources mention is a vehicular combat game, "has the ideas and the inspiration and the identity of the band behind it", and will, oddly, also feature art input from Geof Darrow of The Matrix/Hard Boiled/Big Guy And Rusty fame. Let's hope the title can improve on band-licensed games from Aerosmith , Journey, or even Iron Maiden?

eh?

Why would someone want to play a game about a team of anti-filesharing activists? What do they do, run around and when you push fire button A they whine to reporters, and button B files lawsuits?

Oh wait, apparently they were some kind of a music group once. Whatever.

I hope they include P2P busting

I want to be able to hire lawyers to have people kicked off of P2P services. If I can't do that, I won't play.

HOWTO:Buy back the fans you pissed off the most...

... by Lars Ulrich.

Seriously, I was a big Metallica fan. During the Napster days I initially defended them. Then I saw one too many interviews with Lars, and I realized what a prick he was.

They burned bridges with a lot of my friends. I wouldn't doubt if it's statistically significant to their bottom line.

So recently we see shit like this Metallica Make Peace With Digital Downloaders -- Sort Of [mtv.com]. Wow they are so hip to this new medium. My ass.

The fans needed Metallica's faith back in the day, and they didn't give it to us. We bought their CD's, AND we ripped them to our harddrives. People at work would play my Metallica songs and then go out and but some of their CD's for their car. If Metallica had stood up for it's fans, at the hay day of the Napster witch hunt, I think the RIAA and DMCA and a lot of other things could have been altered.

Instead they showed us loud and clear, they are the enemy.

-malakai

The really cool part...

The best part is that you get to play these [darwinawards.com] guys. The objective is to get into the concert after you do some bar hopping.

Spoiler Ahead! (not really)

I can see it now...

With Shawn Fanning as the evil supervillian and Hilary Rosen as your trusty sidekick!

Wonderful, I'll run out and get that game right after I drop $50 on Dikatana.

Metallica - trying to fix their image

Anybody catch this article [com.com] on CNET?

Metallica then:

Napster has built a business based on large-scale piracy. Facilitating that are hypocritical universities and colleges who could easily block this insidious and ongoing thievery scheme...

Metallica now:

We've always wanted our fans to experience our music online .. But up until now, the existing distribution methods have not passed the kind of 'quality' standards our fans have come to expect from us.

Despite the heated charges, the band now says its early grievances were merely about the quality of music offered through Napster file-swapping, not about the theft.

Yeah, whatever Lars! How about sticking with writing MUSIC? How about coming over to my house and setting up my stereo for me? You know, so that the quality is better. Or better yet, buy me a new one!

DEATHMATCH Shawn vs Lars, this time it's personal!

I've seen arcade video games based on bands, they pretty much sucked.

Add to it lack of interest. Metallica, is way over the hill now. This will end badly as Lars starts mouthing off to the programmers and saying they are ripping off Metallica's image in a game they are sponsoring.

No good programmer will work for them.

Remember...

Music is the Weapon!

Don't be knocking the Journey game

Say what you want about the Aerosmith or Iron Maiden games. But Journey Arcade was a blast!

hmmm

Oh yeah, we're gonna hafta pirate the HELL outta THIS game! :)

Hey!

I thought the aerosmith game was pretty fun... Well, at least I remember shooting CD's, some partial nudity, giant robots and stuff.

Cover your eyes, it's too horrible to watch

Forget Journey, et al. I'm afraid this is going to be a rehash of KISS: Pyscho Circus. At least it had somewhat of a plot. I mean, what possible plotline can a Metallica game have? Run away from fans? Nope, been done. I know, they have to get to a concert! No, that's been done too.

The only thing I can think of is a 3D Fighter with Lars vs. Shawn Fanning. I wonder what Lars Fatality move will be?

MetallicA 3D: Lars Attacks -Pi3RaX- m3d.iso - yEnc

Will trade for "Metallica - Full Collection (320kbps).rar"

Motörhead

There even was a Motörhead [imotorhead.com] Amiga game [gamewinners.com], a typical scroller beat-em-up iirc.

It's gotta be better than...

Revolution X [seanbaby.com].

The only redeeming feature of this game was the moral dilemma : given the choice, would you save the members of Aerosmith?

Wonder if it will be available on Mame

Wonder if it will be Mameable. Then I could build a Mamecab that switches between the Journey game and this. Cool.

They also have announced the title to the game.

Vivendi has announced that the new Metallica game will be titled WaRaRaRgah! WaRaRaRgah! Wghhhaaaa Wghhaaa Wghhhaaaaaaa! "It's just like the real Lars experience." said the spokesperson.

Rejected titles included "Sanitarium: Welcome to where mimes are killed" "Enter Night: Bake my tan ought to never never LAN" "Hero of the day: Still the Balkins, beat a Paul." "But those titles were rejected, as while they accuratly portreyed the lyrical style of the band, they failed to capture Metallica's more... indecipherable qualities," said our vaguely defined spokesperson.

What kind of gameplay?

I would expect that a metallica game would feature bus crashes, setting yourself on fire, beating up hookers, etc. Too bad Grand Theft Auto 3 already exists.

So long Cliff...

... thank god you're not here to suffer all this...

warez it to hell

:)

(suprised haven't seen this comment b4)

Dear slashdot,

I think you've mistake. You see, this article should have been posted in the "It's Funny. Laugh." topic. Because of course, this is too ridiculous to be true. No one but retarded fanboys would pay any money to play a bunch of washed up loser millionaire musicians... Wait, you mean they're serious. Wow. What a bunch of asshats.

So, when will the game be on Kaaza?

I can imagine all the fans they ticked off during the Napster days pushing tons of copies out on the net just for this reason.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a serious game of Qbert to play.

Dolemite
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Iron Maiden has a video game?

Who knew? I'm a huge Maiden fan, but I think I'm definitely in the minority of fans who even know what a computer is, much less know how to use one.

What's Next? Action Figures?

Thank you Metallica for confirming the recent confusion over your loyalties: fans or $$$?

Clearly, it's the latter.

I'm now waiting to see the Lars Urlich action figure, with its face in a permanent scowl, and its two fists raised high clutching wads of cash, and flipping twin birds.

James will be a mongoloid neanderthal with a vacant expression, and drool hanging from its mouth. And a ferrarri.

If there's a Cliff Burton doll, it should come in a casket that spins under a mock grave, to show how he would feel about all this.

Camp Chaos anyone? [campchaos.com]

Best Rock band video game

was Crue Ball, the Motley Crue pinball game for Sega Genesis. That was a rockin' cool pinball game. I still play it, only on the xbox.

Oh, boy!

I cannot WAIT to not buy this!