10 Video Games We Still Can't Believe Got Cancelled
5. Metallica: The Game
The title alone for Metallica: The Game should have been enough to make a massive profit. It’s a Metallica video game! Whilst the band did indeed get their own Guitar Hero title, alongside some of their music appearing in a Rock Band DLC, this particular game was a completely different idea.
Rather than being a rhythm game for you and your mates to shred some plastic guitars to, Metallica: The Game would be an open-world, driving and shooting based title that incorporated music and themes from the band’s catalogue. Beta gameplay footage of the planned 2005 title suggested we’d be getting something that resembled a Mad Max and Metallica crossover. (Again- HOW do you not release this game?!)
The game, also sometimes referred to as Damage Inc, was cancelled for unclear reasons near the end of 2004, after releasing a trailer and some early concept art. At one point, frontman James Hetfield suggested that it was being revisited for a PSP release, but this never came to fruition either.
How a concept like this, with the ability to rival a proper Half-Life 3 when it comes to hype, could still be doing a stint in Development Hell, is genuinely mind-boggling. Perhaps Slipknot could release a horror title to soften the blow?