Metallica Members Are Playable Characters In Action Sports Video Game

Metallica frontman James Hetfield and bassist Robert Trujillo are featured as playable characters in the upcoming "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD" action sports video game "Revert Pack" DLC. The pack will be made available on December 4 at $4.99 on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and Steam.

Although it was previously announced that the revert will only be usable within levels from "Tony Hawk 3" - not on the existing "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater" or "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2" levels included in "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD" - that is no longer the case: a free title update for the game will allow players to use the revert throughout the game; the patch should go live the week the add-on comes out, according to Polygon.

"Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD" launched in July, selling 120,000 units in its initial Xbox Live timed-exclusive debut. The game was later released on PlayStation 3 and PC, as Blabbermouth reports.

Pictured below: James Hetfield like you've never seen him before.

Comments

[iommi600]

They would fit more in Call of Duty... the soldiers uses tables as covers all the time.

[zefs]

I see what you did there but not sure if funny.

[iommi600]

Not very funny if you ask me, today's being a slow day for my humour.

[Jugulator_cro]

LOL MEMES ECKS DEE

[TJWhonley]

troll

[6-String_Madman]

One does not simply


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troll James Hetfield.

[SweetyBoii]

I'd buy the game just for the sake of playing as James and Robert!

[Eclectic Lizard]

Awesome! Should totally be 1986 James though.

Also does James break his wrist everytime you play as him?

[Mike Quall]

picturing trujillo as a skater makes me chuckle

[DisarmGoliath]

How much lower could he possibly squat, when about to jump?

[Rorok_89]

There will probably be some serious clipping between his ass and the ground hahaha

[CommanderMeaty]

hmmm npcs needs to be fatter than that.

[morbidguitar]

Cause a 60 year old skateboarder is so cool
Does it show kirk sucking on guitar while skateboarding too? lol

[Mouloudo]

Tony Hawk and Hetfield are about the same age, but maybe you think tony hawk is lame too?

[morbidguitar]

nah he's cool. And that 5 years makes all the difference.

[metallica-#1]

Seen you on the Green Day article too, you seem like a real prick
Pull whatever it is out of your ass and enjoy life a little

[morbidguitar]

haha dont worry bud Ive got a hell of a good life!
Its a blast commenting on this stuff.

[Danish752]

sounds like an eventful and meaningful live it is that you live....

[Deek_13]

Nah, Kirk just sits there trying to use his board as a giant wah pedal

[thechaostheory]

Best one!

[SOAD_SoG]

Incoming Table jokes.

[Scarface88]

I wonder what their special moves will be! 'Crab Walk Boardslide', 'I Am the Table Air'...

More seriously, I hope they've got cool special moves that refer to their music.

[LeakyFlask]

Ah... the first Tony Hawk game is so f'cking great. Still haven't tried the remake, but I've got the urge to do so now.

[Chronologo]

For me the best in the series was the second one, the remake isn't that good though

[Danish752]

All the games were good until american wasteland, then it went downhill... this game is just part of the declining slope the serious is still heading on

[Franko 316]

They had a Lars character but it had bad technique and just repeated the same tricks over and over.

[My Last Words]

This comment made me laugh out loud

[EL1XER]

logged in to give this a thumbs up

[nailsarecruel]

Is Superman still on the soundtrack? Loved that damn song on THPS1.

[Gexzilla]

Yes

[VanTheKraut]

So, in other words, no one still plays Tony Hawk.

[AlbertJ]

Learn to read.

[cory_i]

I hope they integrate Rob's helicopter move into the game, if it fits anywhere, it's there.

[ihartfood]

hetfields sound effects are OOOH YEAHHHH and ALRIGHT

[Drm316]

He probably yells "TAH" right after each trick.

[Mike Quall]

a slipknot or gwar pack would be more entertaining to me

[BASSPL43R]

My favorite character to play as in the Tony Hawk series was definitely Iron Maiden's "Eddie".

[crazysam23_Atax]

That pic doesn't look like Hetfield at all...

[M3AK]

By Hetfield they purely man "generic looking man in tanks tops with wristbands". While I understand that high-res models of the metallica dudes made up with 100000 times the amount of polygons would kiij absurdly out of place in the games engine....do they really expect me to pay for this shit?

[M3AK]

*look

[blackwingbat]

The characters themselves are just part of the full DLC pack. It adds content from THPS3, and the band members are bonus.

[Sven123]

James' special move should be the 'OW YEAH!!!' *imagine a cool move with James shouting ow yeah*

[Grudgeshredder]

James actually kind of fits with his since he used to skateboard a lot until he broke his arm twice during the Master tour I think

[Izzy-Sweet]

Anyone else notice how he's wearing the new "Kill 'Em All" skate shoes? Nice touch.

[dimtri95]

skateboarding game. James broke his arm on a skateboard in like 85. James is a character in a new skateboarding game. This is so ironically funny.

[m4ss3 m/]

They definitely should include a special trick where he transforms into a table.

[INstaNt-RocK]

Must be a slow news day. I imagine there tumble weed blowin around the UG office...

[beefcake122]

yeah that looks HD alright

[C.O.B. Fan]

"James hetfield like you've never seen him before!"
What, skinny??

[pokerhappy]

"James Hetfield like you've never seen him before."
You're right, I've never seen a James Hetfield in unintelligible blob form.

[dcstar77715]

They shoulda put Eddie T. Head back in the game.

[ultimatelefty]

Is he skating through the airport from THPS 3? Man I wish they would release an other Tony Hawk game like Pro Skater 4 or Underground, unrealistic as **** but addicting as hell. also with just the game console controller, not the board (never played ride or shred, but I've read some pretty bad reviews about them)

[Skaden]

Not seen anyone post this surprisingly, maybe the skateboard is a small table with wheels on the legs? Something like that...

[Eifler121]

They should change the soundtrack completely. I'd buy that DLC. It's almost like they only picked the crappy songs from the games and added more crappy songs.

[swave75]

Lame.

[eizetjuh]

That's a little less than half the price the game cost me... Still getting it though.

[grungerocker90]

his special move would probably be 'the table'

[st017]

It'll only be realistic if James has a breaks his arm or has a cast on. Every time he touched a skateboard in the 90's they said he broke his arm. lol

[N7Crazy]

Lars will sue them later for using Metallica's image without their approval

[shreddguitarist]

They should have put Muse in it. That would have been funny as hell to see Matt skateboarding and all.
And really everyone the whole table thing is worn out!
Only joking
I wonder if he'll jump any tables

[Rorok_89]

Holy cow you just reminded me I dreamed about Muse today. It was really creepy, something was wrong with Matt's face XD

[theogonia777]

IDK, I preferred Spiderman in THPS2 and the Beastie Boys in NBA Street V3.

[-LAW-]

How will this work... They going to glue a skateboard to Hetfield's four legs?

[NecroComet]

His skate will surely turn into a table all of a sudden in mid game