Nyko's Metal Pedal adds weight to your gaming drum kits

Dry your eyes, drummer. We feel your sense of loss at the news that Rock Band 2 may not be getting its promised second kick pedal after all, ruling out proper reenactments of Lars' two-foot prowess (without a little modding). Now at least you can improve the quality of that one kicker you do have, replacing it with something a little more weighty. Nyko's aptly-named Metal Pedal, a bargain at $20, works with both Rock Band games as well as Guitar Hero: World Tour on all platforms, and is made of real metal to give a more authentic heft. No, nothing will feel quite like the real thing, but it's surely better than that cracked hunk of plastic you've been meaning to send back to Harmonix for months.

[strider_mt2k @ Dec 5th 2008 8:05AM]

What's a "Lars"?

Neil Pert FTW.

[Farris @ Dec 5th 2008 11:40AM]

While I agree that Pert is ridiculously good, because this article is about a bass pedal, I think Engadget was right in using Lars as the reference.

Metallica FTMFW!

\m/

[Harry @ Dec 5th 2008 6:19PM]

How can you guys be lauding the guy and misspelling his name???

Peart

Neil Peart

[PyRo1509 @ Dec 5th 2008 8:09AM]

I hope this comes with a lifetime cool guarantee...
Because I can't risk it otherwise...

[Gavin @ Dec 5th 2008 8:10AM]

Lars' drumming is craptastic.

[crashcarstar @ Dec 5th 2008 8:36AM]

Real drummers can do it on one pedal.

[hans @ Dec 5th 2008 8:59AM]

OMG who cares? this game is so stupid.

[iphoner @ Dec 5th 2008 9:09AM]

Where's my logo? Stupid avatar.

[iphoner @ Dec 5th 2008 9:14AM]

So Cool! I like it.

[Dull @ Dec 5th 2008 11:01AM]

Will it charge my laptop?

[Andrew @ Dec 5th 2008 11:48AM]

Lars is shit at the double bass outside the studio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MReE6x2cgYU

[TopaZ @ Dec 5th 2008 12:22PM]

This pedal cowers in the presence of the best current RB pedal:

http://www.rockpedal.com/

[TheOnlyEgg @ Dec 5th 2008 12:37PM]

Hahaha, Lars has no two-footed prowess. It's quite sad that the most well-known "metal" drummer in the world can't handle one of the basic skills of the genre.

[Tom W @ Dec 5th 2008 12:42PM]

I like it! But whats wrong with the bog standard one?

[glompix @ Dec 5th 2008 1:11PM]

I don't mean this as a troll, but Lars Ulrich doesn't really have "two-foot prowess." One of my friends with less-than-stellar musical tastes got the St. Anger album with a DVD included. On it it showed him getting tired after a fairly short, fairly standard double kick part. What has happened to you, Metallica? :(

As for double-kick prowess, hows about a little Behemoth? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oey85FGHOHc

[Joe Dombrowski @ Dec 5th 2008 2:09PM]

Add another to the anti Lars fund...of all the metal drummers out there with unbelieveable double peddling, you picked the worst. Also, unless Lars is plural, you're missing an s (Lars's).

[just this once @ Dec 6th 2008 6:48AM]

if it ends with s then it just has ' at the end (lars')

[Joe Dombrowski @ Dec 7th 2008 7:01AM]

Not according to the Modern Language Association, The Elements of Style, or The Economists guide to punctuation. It's a very common mistake that is perpetrated so often it has become accepted among many paople. It's like ending sentences with a preposition; it's wrong, but people do it all the time, so no one knows it's wrong.

Also:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_apost.html

[BobDobalina @ Dec 7th 2008 7:02AM]

It's not quite that simple, Joe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Singular_nouns_ending_with_an_.22s.22_or_.22z.22_sound