Soundtracks can make or break a game. For adrenaline-fuelled, nail-biting action, nothing works better than some heavy riffs and pounding drums to match players’ thumping hearts as they fight through swarms 🅷of zombies, fight against evil, and face the final bosses to claim their victory.
Heavy metal has truly earned its place within the world of gaming. Whether they’re golden oldies featuring rock and riffs like Duke Nukem, or more r🍨ecent games such as Metal: Hellsinger, there are plenty of ways to enjoy the heavier side of gaming. Add some special heavy metal celebrity cameos into the mix, and it makes the rock and metal aspect of gaming all the more entertaining.
Updated October 1, 2022 by Lucas Olah: The show must go on. Rock and Metal are important parts of many people's lives, and nothing is going to change that. This means that more games use these genres throughout their stories, some even being molded by them. With that said, it was only a matter of time that a list such as this one would need to be updated, with more games that show us the beauty of both Rock and Metal. From new entries in the gaming world to older pieces that were not considered the first time around, here are a few games for us headbangers to enjoy.
15 Metal: H🅷ellsꦿinger
With a silent demon on a quest to recover her stolen voice, this gam𒀰e combines everything you could need fr🐈om Metal culture. Demons, Hell, a quest to face the Devil themself, and combat that mixes with music.
You fight your enemies in the first person using both melee and ranged weapons, and your damage increases when synchronizing your attacks t༺o the beat of the music, adding flair to its gameplay. You can expect songs from Lamb of God, Trivium, Serj Tankian, and more.
14 Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy
The Guardians of the Galaxy offers an interesting mix of what the MCU does with the comics, creating a g꧑ame with a powerful story, good humor, and extremely well-written characters. Followi𒆙ng the MCU inspiration, this game offers a vast list of songs from the past, which even play when using special abilities.
Many impactful scenes o🥂f the game also featured licensed music, and if that is not enough for you, the game also has a full original album from a fictional band named Star-Lord, and their songs are amazing as well, mixing along the licensed scores perfectly.
13 Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 + 2 ༺
This one is actually representing the series since most entries play some absolute bangers when it come𒉰s to Rock. Tony Hawk has a huge legacy of games along with his career, and the first two, wh🐠o are still considered some of the best the series has to offer, were remade and put together.
Sadly, not every song from the original games returned, but that doesn't take away from the fun you can have when playing and listening to this game.
12 The Guitar Hero And Rock𝐆 Band Series
Both of these entire series deserve to be mentioned as a whole. Though they sadly do ღnot have the same level of fame they once did, these series were a fever back in the sixth and🌳 seventh generation of consoles (from PlayStation 2 to 3 and to Xbox 360). You could live the fantasy of starting your own garage band and playing through countless songs, even going as far as having entries dedicated to specific bands, such as Aerosmith and Metallica.
Later entries even gave you the experience of playing other instruments and not just the guitar. Nowadays, it'll be hard to find the instrument controllers they used to have, but you can still have a lot of fun with a simple joystick.
11 𒊎 Br&u🤡uml;tal Legend
Players enter a new world entirely based on heavy metal, gore, and headbanging galore in Brutal Legend. Playing as Eddie (voiced by Jack Black), this game is a full-throttle love song to heavy metal from Tim Schafer, featuring a brutal atmospheric soundtrack by Peter McConnell (who also composed the soundtracks for games such as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Psychonauts and Grim Fandango).
The rest of the soundtrack contains over 100 tracks from a huge range of metal artists, from Megadeth to Mirrorthrone and everything in between. You’ll also recognize 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:celebrity voice talent cameos from metal legends like Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead), and🍷 Rob Halford (Judas Priest).
10 Doom
The Doom series has always been famous f๊or its raw, gritty metal soundtrack as the perfect complement to its gory, violent gameplay, so it comes as no surprise that Doom is a strong contender on this list.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Doom Eternal kicks things up to eleven with an electronic metal soundtrack composed by Mick Gordon, who also worked on Doom 2016 and the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Wolfenstein series. Melee and metal have always gone hand-in-hand in video games, and adding in a bunch of bloodthirsty demons really amp𒊎s up﷽ the adrenaline to the next level.
9 ꧋ 🦩Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within
The second installment of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Prince of Persia franchise needed a heavier, grittier soundtrack to suit the more intense in-game themes of despair and destiny. And boy, did Stuart Chatwood give us that in buck𝄹etfuls.
Working with Inon Zur (who composed the soundtracks for the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age and Fallout series, as well as Bethesda's upcoming game 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Starfield), this dream team cooked up some great metal tracks, setting the edgy tone for th🐲e Prince’s desperate fight against th𝓡e Dahaka to change his destiny. Not to mention, the band Godsmack lent a few tracks to the game, with I Stand Alone and Straight Out Of Line.
8 Valfaris
A 2019 indie pixel graphics platformer, Valfaris features brutal combat and blasting heavy metal beats as players journey through the far corners of space. With a soundtrack composed and recorded by former Celtic Frost guitarist Curt Victor Bryant, it’s easy to see why this🅺 game’s music was so well-received by both critics and players.
Playing as a flamethrower-wielding mutant of muscle blasting his way through the 2D space-themed levels, all with a fitting background of metal riffs, guns, and gore, Valfaris proves that 168ꦬ澳洲幸运5开奖网:a great soundtrack can go a lonꦍg, long way.
7 Quake
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There’s something about a dark fantasy FPS that almost requires a metal-inspired soundtrack. With music composed by Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor, Quake ticks every box for raw, edgy, and electronic metal sounds to set you in the mood for adrenaline-fueled shootouts.
This original shooter has players blasting mutated ogres and twisted creatures through castles, medieval bases, lava dungeons, and more. With Quake now available on PC and consoles, players can enjoy this iconic soundtr🎀ack without needing to time-travel back to 1996 to fully appreciate it.
6 ꦕ Coffee Crisis 🌄
This 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:indie beat-em-up brawler passed mostly under the radar when it was originally released in 2018. One factor that you definitely can’t ignore though - that soundtrack. Featuring original heavy metal soundtracks from Pittsburgh-based band Greywalker, the thrash metal backing perfectly ties in with the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Streets Of Rage-esque pixel graphics and action-packed gameplay.
Not only do you hear the metal, but players must also save the metal from destruction in combat with aliens to protect the beloved Coffee House HQ. There are also some cameos from m꧃etal bands including Nile, Terrorizer, Lords of the Trident, and Psychostick.
