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?

Comments

eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

[N0decam]

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.

Re:I hope they include P2P busting

[N0decam]

Not so much the illegal activity that they put a stop to, it was the legal activities that they put a stop to, without due process, just based on legal threats.

I have a friend who was booted from napster because he downloaded mp3's of a metallica album that he owns rather than rip them himself. They said it was up to him to prove his innocence. What is this, France? Last I checked, you're innocent until proven guilty.

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

[malakai]

... 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

Spoiler Ahead! (not really)

[Dr. Bent]

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

[Anonymous Coward]

Anybody catch this article 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!

[infonography]

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.

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

[JBv]

Funny that they don't blame the music they are putting out these days... it doesn't even justify the HD space :P

Cover your eyes, it's too horrible to watch

[Torgo's Pizza]

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?

Re:Cover your eyes, it's too horrible to watch

[Anonymous Coward]

"I wonder what Lars Fatality move will be?"

The lawsuit.

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

[jfisherwa]

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

Mot�rhead

[sconest]

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

It's gotta be better than...

[lightspawn]

Revolution X.

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

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

[Planesdragon]

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.

What kind of gameplay?

[kirkb]

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.