![]() Your fingers will start to press the keys in sync with the music as you evolve from a chimp prodding your keyboard once a second to a dexterous human musician, your fingers blurring in a frantic attempt to perfect the timing of the song. Using your keyboard as an incredibly basic instrument you’ll bash two to four keys in time with the drum beat, marked on your screen by a fretboard with yellow, red and purple shapes (acting as notes) which speed from one end of the screen to the other. Like most rhythm action games you’ll need a sense of rhythm. except instead of a moustache and red cap there’s a goatee, tattoos and an I-don’t-give-a-shit attitude – you’ll shoot down hordes of these creatures as they approach in waves on a 2D, pixellated plane which scrolls past exceptionally fast. Playing as a band of five heavy metal enthusiasts and performances, you’ll traipse across a post-apocalyptic United States in the Gundillac, a suped-up car armed to the teeth with guns designed to kill every foe in your wake (usually zombified creatures/people or some sort of Lovecraftian-inspired monster.) Moving from level to level with “worlds” – think Super Mario Bros. ![]() From the start you’re greeted with the absurdity, intensiveness and bombastic nature adored by heavy metal fans, and it’s glorious. Headbang’s first try at a rhythm action game is a solid start, combining shoot ’em up elements with the familiar hit-button-in-time-with-the-music formula and solely focuses on metal – a genre the developers clearly show a love of. Heavy metal is in your face and obnoxious Double Kick Heroes capitalises on this. There’s nothing nuanced about Dickinson’s performance but nor does it need to be. It climaxes as Bruce turns and cuts Eddie’s chest open, ripping out his heart and raising it to the New Zealand crowd, spraying them in fake blood before launching it into the pit of people. For the 32nd time in Iron Maiden’s 2016 Book Of Souls tour, Bruce pulls out a dagger as he goads the zombie around the stage. The Christchurch crowd roars as an Aztec-inspired Eddie – the band’s mummified mascot – stomps towards him. ![]() Bruce Dickinson leaps through smoke which clouds the Horncastle Arena stage as blue LEDs and flares light up the towering creature behind him. ![]()
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