A stellar metal soundtrack helps elevate this otherwise one-note rhythm-shooter.
Metal: Hellsinger MSRP $39.99 Score Details “Metal: Hellsinger will be a hit with metalheads thanks to its killer soundtrack, but its lacking as both a shooter and rhythm game.” Pros Cons When it comes to subtlety, Metal: Hellsinger says, “Hell no.” Drawing inspiration from 2016’s excellent Doom reboot, the rhythm-shooter takes every design hook that made id Software’s game so memorable and blares them through a stack of amplifiers cranked well past 11.
Demon metronome At a passing glance, it’s easy to confuse Metal: Hellsinger with Doom Eternal. The Outsiders isn’t trying to hide its inspirations, recreating Doom’s arena-like battles filled with powerups to grab and demons to slay. Over the course of eight levels, players shoot and slash their way through different realms of Hell in linear fashion, each one culminating in a classic “red bar” boss fight against an “Aspect.
Metal: Hellsinger could have stood to experiment a bit more with its beat-matching system, perhaps drawing more inspiration from games like Thumper than Doom. We get pieces of that in its small selection of weapons, such as a pair of boomerang-like blades that need to be tossed in a quick one-two pattern, but I rarely feel like I’m adapting to the music so much as steadily pushing a button. I’m left with a game that’s not particularly a great shooter nor a great rhythm game.
The tone isn’t exactly consistent though. Every mission leads off with an animated cutscene featuring narration from Troy Baker, who voices The Unknown’s talking skull Paz. Baker delivers his lines in a slow southern drawl, sounding like a slick cowboy as light guitar licks play. I felt tonal whiplash as I went between the Western-tinged cinematics and nightmarish thrills that followed.
That’s mostly because the shooter doesn’t introduce many new ideas past its opening level. New weapons are unlocked in each realm early on, but that slow drip of tools to experiment with stops in the back half. Once I had a weapon loadout I was comfortable with, I didn’t have much incentive to switch it up. By realm five, I was just in it for the music — an itch a Spotify playlist could have scratched.
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