Brutal Legend

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GAME SUMMARY

Brutal Legend

Rating: 4.5 (30 votes cast)

Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes. Featuring the talents of comedian, actor and musician, Jack Black as super roadie Eddie Riggs, as well as cameos by some of the biggest names in metal music it's a wild ride in the belly of the beast that is not to be missed by gamers and Metalheads alike.

Included as a free bonus in the PC version of Brütal Legend are both the Hammer of Infinite Fate and Tears of the Hextadon multiplayer map packs.

Story

The vivid and wildly creative world of Brütal Legend is brought to life through a spate of chrome, leather, rocker babes, epic music, fire-breathing/stud-wearing beasts, mountains made of guitar amps, and more. Follow Eddie as he embarks on a tour of epic destruction with an axe, a guitar, and his minions as he commands the power of rock in epic band battles. It’s lighter-flicking awesomeness that will melt your face clean off.

Action Combat

Brütal Legend’s core gameplay is classic action slasher, but with a twist: ranged combat comes from your demon-slaying, electricity-creating guitar. Add that 1-2 punch to a guitar solo mechanic that can summon objects, buff your teammates, or cripple your opponents, and you have a deep, gratifying core gameplay combat loop that is fun for the hardcore and accessible for the casual.

A Streaming Open World

Brütal Legend gives you the freedom to walk, drive, or fly anywhere in a fully streaming open world whose art style is inspired by some of the most iconic and hilariously rad metal album covers ever created. Every vista in the beautiful universe of Brütal Legend looks like it was pulled from a Frank Frazetta painting.

Packed With Cameos and Voice Talent

Brütal Legend is full of cameos from gods of metal like Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Lita Ford, and many, many others. It has a MASSIVE metal soundtrack from every era of metal music: 1970’s classic metal to 1980’s hair metal to the scarier cousins of 1990’s metal. And of course, Jack Black pays the ultimate homage to metal as Eddie the Roadie, continuing the theme from the work of his band, Tenacious D and his previous films like School of Rock and High Fidelity.

Multiplayer Mayhem

4v4 "skirmish" multiplayer marries action combat with a strategic unit-control mechanic. As the leader of one of the factions in the game, the player will direct his armies in a Battle of the Bands where the trophy is survival. Brütal Legend’s multiplayer is online-enabled, so you can conquer your friends online (broadband connection required for online play).

Music

The music in Brütal Legend is truly massive. Made up of 108 of the most rocking tracks from 75 different bands representing every sub-genre of metal, it is something to experience in and of itself.

Platform:PC/Mac
Categories:Action, Adventure, Strategy, Real-time Strategy, Mac, Indie, Linux
Publisher:Double Fine
Developer:Double Fine Productions
DRM:Steamworks (Requires a third-party download and account)
Activation:Must be activated on Steam

System Requirements

PC System Requirements
OS:Windows XP SP3
Processor:Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.2 GHz, or AMD Athlon 64 at 2.2 GHz
Memory:1 GB RAM
Graphics:512 MB GeForce 220, Radeon 4550, Intel HD 3000 Graphics
DirectX®:9.0c
Hard Drive:8 GB HD space
Sound:DirectX Compatible Sound Card
Other Requirements:Broadband Internet connection
Mac System Requirements
OS: : Snow Leopard 10.6.8, or later
Processor: Intel Core Duo Processor
Memory: 2 GB of RAM
Graphics: ATI HD 2600 / NVIDIA 8800GT / Intel HD3000 or better card with at least 512 MB VRAM
Hard Drive: 9 GB HD space
Note:Leopard is not supported
Linux System Requirements
OS: : Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, fully updated
Processor: 2.2 GHz dual core CPU
Memory: 2 GB of RAM
Graphics: 256 MB GeForce 220, Radeon HD 4550, or Intel HD 4000 Graphics
Open GL: 2.1
Hard Drive: 9 GB HD space

Note: This product requires a third-party download and account

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REVIEWS

By CrashTestWombat posted 1st May

If you love heavy metal or even have a passing knowledge of it, check this game out. Double Fine make very well written and funny games and Brutal Legend is both! Jack Black voices the mian character, Eddy Riggs, the worlds best roadie who is sucked into a land of heavy metal! \m/ There are nods to every trope of the genre in this game for the die hard fans but quitew a bit of the humor can be grasped without a enxylocpeadic knowledge of all things metal. The combat is fun up until it turns into an RTS which can drag on and become annoying. It's an open world game with lots of goodies to unlock and explore while listening to the epic soundtrack. The car handling is crap but you get used to it. Tons of cameos from rock legends, two expecially good ones are Ozzy and Lemmy.

Great game. I love it!

If you liked Tim Schafer's other games you will also love this one!

By Hadoriel posted 2nd April

Brütal Legend is more than a little unusual both in terms of the setting and in terms of gameplay so it's probably not for everyone. Also due to the long time between the original release for video consoles and the PC release, the graphics aren't exactly the best anymore.

However graphics have always been secondary to the hillarious humor of Schafer's games and this is one is no different. The heavy metal setting and the accompanying music also make it special and it helps to at least have a basic understanding of 80's and 90's heavy metal to better understand all the gags.

Regardless of this: If you liked Schafer's other games like Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango or Psychonauts, you are going to love this one!

Brutal Legend review

By djnuma posted 28th February

Brutal Legend is an amazing game. The gameplay is solid, Shifting from an Action adventure game, to a RTS almost seamlessly, while providing players with the most rockin soundtrack of any game in history. There are little to no bugs, Controls are fluid, and the graphics are what one would expect from a game released on consoles 4 years ago. All in all The story is very gripping, and will make you want a sequel. This game should definitely be on your wishlist if it is not already.

Brutal Legend review

By Dantilein posted 26th February

An absolutely fantastic game if you enjoy 80s and 90s Metal.

If you don't then you'll likely not find as much enjoyment out of it, but will definately still be worth it during a sale. The gameplay itself isn't all that interesting to be honest, it's alright but nothing impressive, simple god of war style combat with not much finesse or a cinimatic style to it, and some RTS elements which will disappoint RTS fans. But all in all it does an alright job to carry your around the wonderful world which oozes heavy metal out of every single nook and cranny combined with the usual double fine humor from the earlier titles of tim shafer like Psychonauts or the early lucasarts games.

So i'd say a definitive recommendation for everyone who likes Motörhead, Iron Maiden, Judas priest and similar bands.

And for everyone who doesn't: pass until you see it in a sale, or if you don't have to watch the contents of you wallet to closely just pick it up as it is, since it is a fairly cheap game to begin with.