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Metallica Revenge: Tapulous takes revenge to the next level

Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, App Review, Music

The Tap Tap Revenge empire just became more credible… at least to the Metallica fans out there. Metallica Revenge [iTunes Link] sells for $4.99, but it is not out to make lots of money — not according to the Associated Press interview with the band’s drummer, Lars Ulrich. Ulrich explains that the application itself is really just for fun and that “it’s one more thing that’ll keep me semi-cool in my kids’ eyes for another six months until the next thing comes out.”

But we think that this is a little bit more than just a cool marketing scheme… it actually has some brand new features never before seen in a Tap Tap Revenge game. It’s the first game in the archive to include a Bluetooth Battle mode. In this mode, two devices connect over Bluetooth to play note for note against each other while obtaining power ups that you can toss at your opponent to distract them and move ahead in points.

Tapulous touts this game as the most difficult Tap Tap Revenge yet. It has a Hard mode with four rails in landscape and an Extreme mode with five rails in landscape. There has never been a Tap Tap Revenge game with five rails. I’m scared to even try it.

The band has also created a contest for those of us who purchase this application. You can win everything from cool Metallica gear to the grand prize of a trip to meet and greet Metallica at a show in Vegas on December 5th.

Here’s the track list:

• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Fuel
• King Nothing
• Sad But True
• Some Kind of Monster
• Enter Sandman
• One
• Seek & Destroy
• All Nightmare Long
• Master of Puppets

TUAWMetallica Revenge: Tapulous takes revenge to the next level originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Crafting a custom Metallica pinball table with Linux, love

We’ve explored what it takes to collect and refurbish existing pinball machines, but what if you want your own, custom game? Creating a one-of-a-kind pinball experience is a much different beast, but we were able to catch up with Wade Krause and Tanio Kryce, two men who put together a special table for some big pinball fans: Metallica.

“[Singer] James Hetfield saw the Hellacopters game that [artist Dirty Donny] and I made a few years ago and he wanted us to build him a custom game,” Krause told Ars. That was the genesis of the project, but it takes real ingenuity to take an existing machine and modify it so that both the art and the play matches the feel of a band. Here’s how they Krause and Kryce pulled it off.

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The rock of redundancy: Ars reviews Guitar Hero 5

The first Guitar Hero title was released in November of 2005—that’s almost four years of Guitar Hero. We’re on the fifth sequel, if you count World Tour as the fourth title, which Activision apparently does. This may be called Guitar Hero, but you can use your microphone, and you can hook up your drum set. This is more World Tour 2 than it is Guitar Hero 5, but admitting that might mean that Band Hero would seem even more redundant when it comes out.

And of course, we’re not even counting the Nintendo DS titles, nor the band-specific releases like the bargain bin-tastic Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and the completely metal Guitar Hero: Metallica. The quality may be all over the place, but the strategy is clear: this series is going to be slammed down your throat until you choke. Besides, if you buy this, you’ll get Guitar Hero: Van Halen for free! If that doesn’t show you the kind of confidence everyone has in both of these releases, I don’t know what will.

The music blares, the notes come down, you play plastic instruments. Rhythm games are now a known quantity, and the novelty has certainly worn off. Is there enough of a jump here to justify the price of a new game, or are you better off buying more tracks for the Guitar Hero or Rock Band you already own? Let’s find out.

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