Metallica is perhaps the most famous band when it comes to metal music. Technically now in mainstream, the band still has followers from the metal music community, although there was that time they were hated by metal enthusiasts after they broke free from the underground scene and decided to join the mainstream bandwagon. All of that hatred from fans should have had healed by now.
You might be wondering why I'm talking about this band when I should be posting about videogames. Well, it turns out that Metallica's supposed videogame for the PlayStation 2 recently had gameplay footage of it published over YouTube via PtoPOnline, as reported by Kotaku. The game's title is called Damage Inc.
What's the game about?
As you can observe on the video below this article, the game isn't polished yet. Basing on the fact that it was cancelled, the game may have not been completed by the time they threw in the towel. Anyway, it looks like it has the feel of driving in GTA 3 with the circular map on the bottom left and its graphics quality.
The protagonists consist of Metallica's band members driving their vehicles for combat which clearly resembles that of Mad Max's with all those guns and rusty panels. While it looks like an open-world sandbox game, the mechanics of the game require you to destroy enemy vehicles, just like Mad Max, or the classic Twisted Metal - only minus the exaggerated weapons. It has rockets and some sort of explosives but isn't enough to reach Twisted Metal level. T
Damage Inc. is set in a post-apocalyptic endless dune and concrete, with some infrastructure like abandoned buildings and some ramps, there goes Mad Max again. Aside from destroying other vehicles, players could also get off from their current combat vehicle and transfer to another one, reminds me of stealing someone's car in GTA III. The audio that is in the build only includes sound effects so there's no room to comment for the game's background music. Though I have a wild guess it could have come from the band themselves.
Its initial concept art for Damage Inc. were posted by Kotaku 5 years ago, it portrays the band members carrying big guns, and of course, dressed up like Mad Max characters - how many times did I mention the reference on this article again? It was also reported on the same article that a trailer (which they described as lame) was included in the copies of St. Anger, one of Metallica's album back in 2003. The game was developed by Black Rock studios but wasn't even formally announced to the public other than the trailer that was mentioned.
The game was also set to compete with Twisted Metal Black, Vigilante 8, and Grand Theft Auto III, supposedly. Damage Inc. was planned to be released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC. Too bad we weren't and will never be able to experience them. You can listen to a full commentary by PtoPOnline while playing the game's demo, or at least what was built so far, on the video below:
