Earache Exreme Metal Racing
Platform: PC
Publisher: Metro 3D
Review Type: Touchy
Version: Demo
The game I imagined in my head was wicked. Spiked tire treads tore through the writhing entrails of doomed souls. Satan loomed over us in the blood-red sky, taking the the form of a spectral goat. The dark one rained pestilance on my fellow racers as we fired guided missiles fueled by pure hatred while the deepest recesses of hades echoed with the fury of Deicide. That and I imagined that the game would be fun.
I'm sure teenager Sky Nash, who cooked up the game concept, had something similar in mind. It's a shame the product of her goth-addled imagination wound up being so dang sluggish and sloppy. Vehicles handle like Sisyphus' stone and their attacks trigger so slowly that they seem only coincidentally related to your button presses. They're designed like your now-typical Mad Max-inspired cruisers -- nowhere near as creative as the kind of stuff you see on your average death metal album cover. And as far as satanic minions go, the demo track is littered with indentical lumberjack zombies. More goofy than fearsome.
The music is all there -- a diverse selection of metal from the Earache roster, but every other aspect of the demo is hellacious dissapointment. Maybe that Southern Lord-themed shooter, Sun 0))) Recon: Drone Tactics, will turn out better.
Download the demo here.
Publisher: Metro 3D
Review Type: Touchy
Version: Demo
The game I imagined in my head was wicked. Spiked tire treads tore through the writhing entrails of doomed souls. Satan loomed over us in the blood-red sky, taking the the form of a spectral goat. The dark one rained pestilance on my fellow racers as we fired guided missiles fueled by pure hatred while the deepest recesses of hades echoed with the fury of Deicide. That and I imagined that the game would be fun.
I'm sure teenager Sky Nash, who cooked up the game concept, had something similar in mind. It's a shame the product of her goth-addled imagination wound up being so dang sluggish and sloppy. Vehicles handle like Sisyphus' stone and their attacks trigger so slowly that they seem only coincidentally related to your button presses. They're designed like your now-typical Mad Max-inspired cruisers -- nowhere near as creative as the kind of stuff you see on your average death metal album cover. And as far as satanic minions go, the demo track is littered with indentical lumberjack zombies. More goofy than fearsome.
The music is all there -- a diverse selection of metal from the Earache roster, but every other aspect of the demo is hellacious dissapointment. Maybe that Southern Lord-themed shooter, Sun 0))) Recon: Drone Tactics, will turn out better.
Download the demo here.
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