“Fortnite” is a popular online video game franchise developed by Epic Games. Released in 2017, it’s available in three game mode versions that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine.
There’s “Fortnite Battle Royale,” a free-to-play battle royale game in which up to 100 players fight to be the last person standing; “Fortnite: Save the World,” a cooperative hybrid tower defense-shooter and survival game in which up to four players fight off zombie-like creatures and defend objects with traps and fortifications they can build; and “Fortnite Creative,” in which players are given complete freedom to create worlds and battle arenas.
Players are able to have character avatars exhibit short actions like dancing or celebrating, and now gamers can use “Fortnite” V-Bucks currency to unlock a “Master of Puppets” emote that allows all four avatars to jam on Metallica’s legendary track.
Each avatar represent’s a different role in the band — bass, guitar/vocals, guitar and drums, but players do not morph into Metallica members. This is the second such licensing tie-in for “Master of Puppets” this year, as the song got new life in the Netflix hit, “Stranger Things.”
“That was such a mindf*ck of an experience this summer,” Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich told Howard Stern about the song being included in “Stranger Things.”
“It used to be, with Metallica, we were always the ‘no’ guys. Hey, can we have this song for this? Can we have that song for that? … And it was just — no, no, no, no, no. And a few years ago, we reversed it; we did a one-eighty. We just said, ‘You know what, this is stupid. Why are we hanging on to these songs like they’re so important?’”
He continued, “A couple of years ago, we started saying ‘yes’ to everything. Obviously, we’re all somewhat familiar with the Stranger Things phenomenon. But we got that in six, nine months ago, and said yes. They wanted to build this whole scene about ‘Master of Puppets.’ And we said of course. Then it came out over the summer. And it was just such a mindfuck to see how that became a phenomenon. We were so proud.”
“Who would’ve thought, 40 years later, that these songs could still have that impact?,” Ulrich concluded.
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