While playing Metal: Hellsinger, it’s hard to imagine that there aren’t yet similar games on the market. Metal: Hellsinger turns out to be a pretty enjoyable experience, but it certainly hasn’t broken new ground with its wrecking mission to hell.
Metal: Hellsinger is a fast paced demon hunter game with an epic heavy metal score pounding through your television screen as you blast to the beat. While it’s innovative in its premise, it’s not the only game with demon hunting or shooting mechanics. If you like Metal:Hellsinger, you’ll love these games too.
6 Shadows of the Damned
Shadows of the Damned was released in 2011 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Since its release, the game has had quite a niche but loud audience. Almost everyone you know who has played the game raves about it. You play as Garcia, a demon hunter trying to rescue his girlfriend from the underworld – a primitive concept at first, but the gameplay and level design are ultimately enough to make this game a success.
The world is almost like stepping into a Rob Zombie movie with its over-the-top vulgar and crazy opponent design. The enemies are insane and highly combative, which makes it so sweet when you defeat them, and the underlining humor usually hits. The game is currently backwards compatible on Xbox, so grab a copy and experience the wild underworld of Shadows of the Damn.
5 Duke Nukem
From the original Dukem Nukem to Duke Nukem: Forever, you can’t really go wrong with either one. Sure, some are better than others, but the overall shooter mechanics and themes remain the same. If you’re willing to look beyond the questionable dialogue at times, you may find yourself enjoying these titles at their surface level.
During each game, aliens invade Earth and it’s up to Duke to save the world from them. He is a ruthless and successful mercenary with an occasional arrogant and somewhat insufferable attitude. That said, there are qualities of Duke that can be liked and if you want to sit back and play a strafe shooter with demonic aliens on it, the Duke Nukem franchise is a solid choice.
4 earthquake
One of the original first-person shooters is Quake. The franchise was famous during its peak days. So much so that it even spawned a Quake-Con. Quake has reinvented the way we play video games today with a more aggressive and competitive edge over the experiences we want.
In Quake, you play as Ranger, a Marine-esque figure who must go through slipgates and defeat the enemies within. What set this game apart from so many others at the time was the movement. Quake demands of your understanding of motion. Similar to Metal: Hellsinger, if you stand still, you die. Movement is key, and it’s a skill that takes time to master. The faster your speed matches your accuracy, the more success and further you get in Quake.
3 dark watch
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If you are a fan of both horror and shooters, Darkwatch is everything you could wish for. It combines the sparse western genre with horror as you play as Jericho, a gunfighter who is turned into a vampire at the start of the game. Darkwatch is in some ways the closest thing to playing as Alucard from Hellsing. You are a vampire fighting on the good side and trying to wipe out all the evil in the world. In fact, Jericho is almost as cool as a protagonist like Alucard and you feel the same sense of badassery while playing Jericho as you do while watching Hellsing.
Surprisingly for its 2005 release, the game’s mechanics still hold up. The shooting is satisfying and the art is acceptable. Demon hunting is a concept that has been told multiple times, but Darkwatch tries to place it in a world unlike any other: a steampunk western society overrun by evil. It’s a game that has unfortunately fallen into relative obscurity and deserves a remaster so that more people can enjoy the fun there is to be had.
2 Twilight
Unfortunately, Dusk is the most hidden and underrated game on this list. Released on the Switch and PC, this game takes everything Quake has created and sticks it into a sinister dystopian farmland. When investigators and military personnel are notified of dangerous ruins in Pennsylvania, they attempt to pinpoint their exact location. When found, the ruins take possession of those who discovered them. It is now up to you to enter the farmland and eradicate the evil within.
The game is very similar to Metal: Hellsinger due to its grandiose heavy metal soundtrack and the ridiculously fast movement speeds of your character. Like Quake, Dusk can take some getting used to, as the timing of your shots is crucial. Progress through each stage to clear out the possessed creatures that lurk and headbang to the sympathetic score played over the top.
1 demise
There can really only be one match in this number one spot. That’s Doom. Doom is a franchise with many iterations. You couldn’t go wrong with any of them, but the best and most modern are Bethesda’s two – Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal.
These games have really mastered the art of fast-paced first-person shooters. Everything from the movement to the balance of demons attacking you at any given moment all play a part in why so many of us gamers revere the franchise. While playing Doom you will feel absolutely badass. It’s almost impossible not to 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 discern the warlike demons roaming free.
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