NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS IT? You got your Soundfall in my Dusk!
EXPECT TO PAY £25
DEVELOPER The Outsiders
PUBLISHER Funcom
REVIEWED ON AMD Aerith 0405 2.8 GHz; AMD Van Gogh 0405 GPU, 16GB RAM (Steam Deck 256GB)
MULTIPLAYER No, but there IS a global leaderboard
LINK metalhellsinger.com
The first time I ever listened to Swedish hardcore band Refused’s seminal 1998 album, The Shape of Punk to Come, my brain leaked out of my ears. It is a major reason why extreme music sounded like it did in the 2000s, the connective tissue between generations of hardcore and metal. In a similar vein, The Outsiders’ Metal: Hellsinger tries to connect highoctane first-person shooting and rhythm gameplay with metal.
Rhythm FPSes are a relatively new phenomenon that might best be described as an unholy union between Doom and Crypt of the Necrodancer. Only a handful of games even currently exist in this nascent genre, and it’s not hard to see some striking similarities between them. What makes Metal: Hellsinger stand apart is the quality of its soundtrack and its slower gameplay.
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