Metal Hellsinger Review – A Rhythmic Symphony of Destruction

Metal: Hellsinger is clear from the start that it is a love letter to fast-paced first-person shooters, particularly Doom, and a tribute to metal music and the culture that surrounds it.

It’s a straightforward shooter that asks, “What if you had to blow bodies up to the beat of a metal album made by genre legends?”

It excels at responding to that question. It’s not perfect – the bosses are uninspired at times, and the combat design could use a little more variety – but my criticisms didn’t detract from my overall enjoyment of my 11-hour play-through.

Metal Hellsinger Review

Metal Hellsinger Review: About This Game

Metal: Hellsinger is a rhythm-based first-person shooter in which your ability to shoot to the beat will improve your gameplay experience. The closer you are to the rhythm, the more intense the music becomes and the more destruction you cause.

Use a skull-clad blade or a variety of murderous guns to defeat the demon hordes. Each weapon’s ultimate ability, such as Murder of Crows or The Big Goodbye, is unique.

Explore an epic story told by award-winning actor Troy Baker. Unlock special challenges and conquer the realms of Torment to advance through the stages and climb the leaderboards.

Although commonly referred to as Hell, The Infernal Planes is actually a confederation of a thousand Hells, each of which is terrifying and diabolical in its own way.

To dethrone The Red Judge, you must fight your way through the most treacherous terrain, from the icy world of Voke to the perplexing world of Stygia.

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Metal is literally the name of the game

What the game gets right far outweighs what it doesn’t, and the developer, The Outsiders, has created what I hope is just the beginning of a new Hell-themed FPS franchise.

Metal is literally the name of the game here. Music plays throughout the game, whether it’s in the fantastic campaign that takes you through realms of Hell or its trials, which unlock sigils used to strengthen your loadout during the story mode.

Metal: Hellsinger is already worth the price of admission if you like Trivium, Lamb of God, and other bands in the genre, as well as guns with a fiery kick.

What the game gets right far outweighs what it doesn’t, and the developer, The Outsiders, has created what I hope is just the beginning of a new Hell-themed FPS franchise.

Metal is literally the name of the game here. Music plays throughout the game, whether it’s in the fantastic campaign that takes you through realms of Hell or its trials, which unlock sigils used to strengthen your loadout during the story mode.

Metal: Hellsinger is already worth the price of admission if you like Trivium, Lamb of God, and other bands in the genre, as well as guns with a fiery kick.

You attack hundreds of demons with one of six different weapons, and the game rewards you with extra damage if you fire each bullet in perfect sync with the on-screen metronome, which also serves as your reticle. Streaks increase your damage output as well as your score modifier.

This streak counter is unique in that each new level adds a new layer to the music track. At 2x, you might hear a bass rumble and a subtle whine from a guitar, bracing for what’s to come.

The drums may begin to play at 4x. At 8x, the song begins to roar, leaving only the vocals to complete the track at 16x.

Climbing from 2x to 16x, made easier by streak multiplier pickups scattered throughout a stage, was just as exciting the third time I did it. It’s like being a producer and bringing a song to life, except you’re doing it with weapons that rip Hell’s demons to shreds.

The playable character in Metal: Hellsinger

All of this is happening because The Unknown, the playable character in Metal: Hellsinger, has been banished to Hell’s lowest realms, where only ice and lowly demons survive.

The Unknown progresses from the iciest domains to the fieriest, accompanied by a talking skull voiced by Troy Baker – he brings a southern drawl that matches the game’s almost Western-like tone – all in order to find and kill The Judge, a slithering ruler losing her grip on Hell, superbly voiced by Jennifer Hale.

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Apart from the campaign, there isn’t much else to the game, but that’s fine because what there is is excellent. There are nine levels and 21 associated Torments that will put your skills to the test with time trials that require you to kill enemies in a specific way using specific weapons and methods.

Hell-related information and extras

There’s also an in-game codex with additional Hell-related information and extras that allow you to listen to the game’s tracks, but that’s all there is. Metal: Hellsinger is a short and sweet film, but it ends at the perfect moment, when both its story and its built-in metal album reach their climax.

Metal Hellsinger Review: Minor quibbles with the game

I have a few minor quibbles with the game, such as its Torment time trials, which either feel cheap and unfair or brilliantly designed in an almost puzzle-like manner, and its boss and combat design, which could use a little more variety, but these are minor criticisms.

My minor criticisms had little impact on how much I enjoyed playing Metal: Hellsinger.

I won’t remember my minute frustrations with the game in a few months, but I will remember “Dissolution,” a Two Feathers track with cathartic vocals from Bjorn “Speed” Strid of Soilwork, the realm of Hell known as Nihil, and the way my shotgun obliterated waves of enemies there.

I’m glad Metal: Hellsinger ends with the promise of more to come because I already want more from this series.