The mod’s announcement tweet featured a video exhibiting several minutes of Metal: Hellsinger gameplay captured in VR, demonstrating how well the title’s distinctive rhythm-based shooting adapts to the more immersive medium. Featuring a player speeding swiftly through a sample of the game’s stages while carefully killing demonic hordes, the video makes it obvious that the Metal: Hellsinger is just as intense and fast-paced of an experience in VR as it does on a flat screen. Gamers reacting to the tweet were enthused by the potential of enjoying the game in VR, with one commenter claiming that the mod’s release had reinforced their choice to eventually acquire Metal: Hellsinger.
Metal: Hellsinger’s distinctive combination of music and mayhem manages to separate it apart from the pack even as the rhythm game genre continues to have an unexpected revival. And with the chance to actually walk inside the game’s heavy metal take on Hell now only a download away, it may be the ideal moment for gamers to rediscover the devilishly imaginative shooter.
