If any form of music had the power to harm others, it would be dubstep. In real life, that harm comes in the form of annoyance. Thankfully, we have video games like Saints Row IV to imagine something slightly worse.
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“We decided that Saints Row needed a mech,” Volition producer Jim Boone says in the video before demonstrating a giant robot suit with rockets, miniguns, and jump jets.
Go ahead and watch all six minutes of the gameplay demo in action and try not to imagine a real-world dubstep weapon in the hands of the U.S. military:
