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Metallica Videogame Planned

Posted by simoniker on from the exit-life-enter-licensing dept.

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?

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  1. HOWTO:Buy back the fans you pissed off the most... by malakai · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... 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. 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

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  2. Mot�rhead by sconest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There even was a Motörhead Amiga game, a typical scroller beat-em-up iirc.

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  3. Re:HOWTO:Buy back the fans you pissed off the most by Planesdragon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The fans needed Metallica's faith back in the day, and they didn't give it to us.

    To continue your overgeneralization, we didn't give it to them, either.

    Remember: their track from MI:2 wound up on Napster before they were even done with it. If some dipshit fanboy loser hadn't shared songs that weren't even finshed by Metallica, Madonna, Dr.Dre, et cetera, the RIAA would never have bothered about P2P and Napster would still be king.

    Sure, Lars is a bit of a technophobie luddite--but considering how well programmers sing, I'd rather a luddite doing the music.