News: Heavy Metal Thunder

August 11, 2005, 12:34 PM

by brandon, via Square Enix -
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Watching the most recent trailer on the Heavy Metal Thunder site has informed me that the for the opening theme, Japanese schlock rock group Sex Machineguns will be playing with Michael Shenker, of Scorpions and MSG fame (he's inexplicably popular in Japan, and referenced in pop culture as easily as Jimmy Hendrix would be). Also featured, Marty Friedman from Megadeth and Hawaii.

According to Gamespot, the game is command-based robot fighting, called 'robo-ress' (a play on puroresu, short for 'pro wrestling'), and features a young lad named 'denki akahibara'. Akihabara is of course the big electronics district in Tokyo, also referred to as 'electric town'. Denki indicated electricity, so there's a dual pun there. The game seems high on cheeky humor, and will likely never come to the US, given how long it took to explain just those two elements.