While playing Metal: Hellsinger, it’s hard to imagine that there are not already similar games out on the market. Metal: Hellsinger is turning out to be quite an enjoyable experience, but it unquestionably didn’t break new ground with its demolition mission to hell notion.
Metal: Hellsinger is a fast-paced demon hunter game with an epic heavy metal score pounding through your television screen as you shoot to the beat. While being innovative in its premise, it’s not the only game with demon hunting or strafing mechanics. If you’re enjoying Metal:Hellsinger, you’ll certainly like these games as well.
6 Shadows Of The Damned
Shadows of the Damned was released on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 back in 2011. Since its release, the game has had a quite niche but loud audience. Nearly anyone you know who has played the game raves about it. You play as Garcia, a demon hunter who seeks to save his girlfriend from the underworld — a primitive concept initially, but the gameplay and level design are ultimately enough to help this game succeed.
The world is almost like stepping into a Rob Zombie film with its over-the-top vulgar and zany adversary design. The enemies are deranged and very punchable, making it ever so sweet when you defeat them, and the underlining humor hits most of the time.The game is currently backwards compatible on Xbox so grab yourself a copy and experience the wild underworld of Shadows of the Damned.
5 Duke Nukem
From the original Dukem Nukem to Duke Nukem: Forever, you can’t really go wrong with any of them. Of course, there are some better than others, but the overall shooter mechanics and themes remain the same. If you’re willing to look past the questionable dialogue at times, you can find yourself enjoying these titles at their surface level.
Throughout each game, aliens invade Earth, and it’s up to Duke to save the world from them. He’s a relentless and successful mercenary with a cocky and somewhat insufferable attitude occasionally. This being said, there are qualities of Duke that can be liked and if you want to kick back and play a strafe shooter with demon-like aliens involved, the Duke Nukem franchise is a solid choice.
4 Quake
One of the original first-person shooters is Quake. The franchise was renowned during its peak of days. So much so, that there was even a Quake-Con that spawned from it. Quake reinvented how we play video games today with a more aggressive and competitive edge to the experiences we want.
In Quake you play as Ranger, a marine-esque figure who must go through slipgates and defeat the enemies lying within. What separated this game from so many others at its time was the movement. Quake demands from you an understanding of movement. Similar to Metal: Hellsinger, if you stand still you die. Movement is key, and it’s a skill that requires time to master. The faster your speed matched with your accuracy, the more success and the further you will reach inside Quake.
3 Darkwatch
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If you’re a fan of both horror and shooters, Darkwatch is everything you could ask for. It mixes the scarce Western genre with horror as you play as Jericho, a gunfighter who is turned into a vampire at the very beginning of the game. Darkwatch in some ways is the closest thing we have gotten to playing as Alucard from Hellsing. You’re a vampire that fights on the good side and seeks to wipe away all the evil in the world. In fact, Jericho is nearly as cool of a protagonist as Alucard and you feel the same sense of badassery while playing as Jericho as you do while watching Hellsing.
Surprisingly for being released in 2005, the game’s mechanics still hold up. The shooting is satisfactory, and the art is acceptable. Demon hunting is a concept that has been told multiple times, but Darkwatch attempts to place it in a world unlike others — a steampunk western society overrun by evil. It’s a game that unfortunately has been relatively forgotten, and deserves a remaster for more people to enjoy that fun there is to be had.
2 Dusk
Unfortunately, Dusk is the most hidden and underrated game on this list. Released on the Switch and PC, this is a game that takes everything Quake created and pastes it in a sinister dystopian farmland. When researchers and military are given word of dangerous ruins in Pennsylvania, they seek to discover their exact location. When found, the ruins take hold of those who discovered them. It is now up to you to enter the farmland and exterminate the evil within.
The game is very similar to Metal: Hellsinger due to its grandiose heavy metal soundtrack and the ridiculously quick movement speeds of your character. Just as Quake, Dusk may require some getting used to as the timing of your shots is pivotal. Progress through each stage to clear out the possessed beings that lurk within and headbang to the congenial score played overtop.
1 Doom
There could really only be one game at this number one spot. That is Doom. Doom is a franchise with many iterations. You couldn’t go wrong with any of them, but the best and most modern are the two from Bethesda — Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal.
These games have truly mastered the art of fast-paced first-person shooters. Everything from the movement to the balance of demons that attack you at a given time all factor into why so many of us gamers revere the franchise. While playing Doom you will absolutely be feeling badass. It’s nearly impossible to not feel like you’re powerful while playing Doom because your aggression is at an all-time high. Blast your way through hell with a plethora of weapons and the movement of a God sent to distinguish the bellicose demons that roam free.
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