Thumper - rhythm violence game

[wwwhhattt]

http://www.drool.ws/

Judging from the trailer 'Rhythm violence' seems to be a pretty good description.
I just read about this on RPS, who say that it made the audience at the GDC feel very uncomfortable. There seems to be no actual violence in the game - just a car going down a fixed track, with standard rhythm game design -  but all the actions, visuals and sounds manage to bring up a sense of... violence (I want to put in a synonym, but can't think of any).

I was just thinking the other day that it would be cool to see more unpleasant games. Not games that deal with unpleasant issues, stories or whatever - we're doing ok there - but games that just feel horrible to play, the game equivalent of the harsher ends of noise, jazz & modern classical (speaking of which, one of the devs is the bassist from Lightning Bolt). Hopefully this is a start

[Shrugging Khan]

I never got into the whole business of

• Watching horrible movies
• Listening to drum'n'bass
• Smoking
• Bashing my head against a wall
• Doing unpleasant things for fun

and I still don't get it.

Also, people seem to be playing up the violent aspect of Thumper a bit too much. Seems to be more clever presentation and mass hysteria than actual qualities of the game itself.