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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. eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. 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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    -Malakai
    A Dragon Lives in my Garage
  3. Metallica - trying to fix their image by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    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!

  4. MetallicA 3D: Lars Attacks -Pi3RaX- m3d.iso - yEnc by jfisherwa · · Score: 4, Funny

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