Jack is back in Black and other metal associations such as spikes,axes and of course the guitar!
Tim Schafer has done it again! For those of you who don't know him he is the creator of one of the best adventure metal game Full Throttle. Some of you mature players maybe remember that jewel. With metal sounds, great voice acting, creative storyline and just fun all around game play the game was a great success. However it never got a sequel due to poorer quality of the game and Lucas arts just axed it.
No fear fellow Shafer fans because we are offered to experience the awesomeness of the metal culture in video games once again trough this new peace of art.
The story is that you (e.i. Eddie Riggs) was going along with the worst metal band in the world on tour and some of your blood managed to get spilled on your belt buckle. So the natural thing that would follow is that you get transported to a world dominated with metal culture and demons and what do you know, thats exactly what happened.
Your character is based on Jack Black with a bit more muscle in it and the characters name came from Iron Maiden's symbol Eddie. For those of you that don't know Jack Black is in the self-proclaimed greatest band in the world Tenacious D.
You find yourself in a room that seems similar to a stage with some crazy cultists going at you with swords. Luck strucks when you find a huge axe in the middle of the room which you handle quite naturally and slaughter the cultists who were in fact demons.
So you bash your way out and take a look at the world around you.
You will find yourself surrounded by lots of metal culture objects such as huge swords, pipe trees, fires and of course references to metal bands such as Halford and Iron Maiden.
Your weapons as far as the producers showed us are the axe and the guitar.
This is as much information the game developers gave us but it is visible that they really intend to make this game fun for all metal fans.
If Shafer delivers we will have a mighty fine game on our hands. For us PC fans let's hope that they will release the game on the PC at some point. The game will be released some time in September of 2009. on Xbox360 and PS3.
Rock on!
