Brutal Legend
- Online-enabled multiplayer so players can conquer friends online via Xbox LIVE.
- Comedic action combat set in a rock n’ roll fantasy world, staring the talents of Jack Black in the role of a demon fighting super roadie.
- A soundtrack made up of 108 of the most rocking tracks from 75 different bands representing every sub-genre of metal.
- A streaming, open world that gives players the freedom to walk, drive, or fly anywhere as they unleash the power of rock n’ roll on enemies.
- In-game cameos from gods of Metal like Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Lita Ford, and many, many others.
Amazon. com Product Description 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, . . . More >>
Simply put, a great setting and hilarious dialogue does not take the place of good gameplay. And that’s where Brutal Legend suffers; the gameplay just isn’t there.
Rating: 3 / 5
This game is fun but can get repetitive. For all people with Xbox live that have the demo they really make it fun with killing druids, riding the druid plow, and doing an earthquake thing to make the building fall. This game is more like go to where you need to doing 1st missions and 2nd missions. The first go with the storyline and take you to the next level. Second missions appear on your map with at least 10 or less on there. You go there on “The Druid Plow” and just do some easy and small missions. Some parts in this game are strategy which really suprised me. If you saw the video at the end of the demo you’ll see Eddie(the main character)with wings. On certain levels you get wings to fly over a battleground. You create Headbangers and all sorts of metal things to help you out. You send them over the battlefield and try to take out the enemys metal character creators which are called merchandise stores which you play a guitar solo than choose your Headbangers or Motorcycles Guys or Whatever, but the point is that it reminds me of Halo Wars except you can drop down and help your guys but Eddie dies quickly so you have to hit a little than fly back up. You do this numerous times. Sometimes it pisses me off because I hate strategy and having to send men places and all that. This game is fun but people that played the deoms reading this review the demo is not even close to the game you don’t even fight the druids after that level so yeah. So people buy it if you want but you might want to think it over and watch gameplay videos on google videos or youtube.
Rating: 4 / 5
I initially liked this game but the more I played it the more I realized how rushed and short this game really is. The music is great and the game is still fun to play but some of it is not well thought out. It is very repetitive. You can quickly earn more fire rewards than things Ozzy has to sell. There is not enough double teaming with the main characters since you can mostly do this in the major battles where all your time is spend commanding your troops. The battle controls are annoying. The individual orders command is deeply flawed. The graphics while good are not as good as a game of this type should be. The multi-player version of this game just sucks by making the commanding general be it Eddie or whoever much whimper than the one you become familiar with in the single player game, the car is useless in this version and hardly plows anyone down. Your character is basically just ordering your troops to take down this tower or putting up that tower while fending off attacking hordes, until you get into position to take down the stage. Looking for the last five of this or that like the dragons can become very tiresome and makes you want to turn to Internet cheats to find them for the reward things. There are a lot of areas on the map where you can’t go and are just a waste of space. This game was way over hyped when it came out but it is still fun to play.
Rating: 3 / 5
This game benefits from a great script and interesting storyline. It has a lot of small touches that come up to surprise you and make you smile. The idea of traveling to a world of heavy metal, full of swords, axes, amps, demons, and killer guitars, where learning new solos melts the faces of your enemies and Ozzy Osbourne sells you heat-seeking missiles for your car, is great. You fight hair-metal enemies who betray the spirit of rock for profit, goths who just don’t like you, and demons. For the first three days of playing I was like a kid in a candy store.
All the really cool stuff is up front, however, and eventually the game turns into a grind. The side missions all seem the same: fight a skirmish, race a car, hunt a certain kind of animal. At every step in the main plotline (after you’ve assembled your army of rock), all obstacles have the same solution: fight a stage battle (essentially a real-time strategy battle fought from a third-person rather than top-down perspective). That and the enemy AI isn’t all that bright, attacking the same point again and again, whether you’ve left other crucial areas undefended or not. It seems to build the same kind of army time after time, too, regardless of the composition of your forces. These battles are balanced in a sort of rock-paper-scissors way, but the challenge is basically to discover whether the AI will always throw paper in a given battle or scissors. And then the game ends, very quickly and very little denouement.
That said, it was nice to be introduced into a world with Titans of Metal, Armagoden, Riggnarok, and the like. The creativity that went into making that world is more satisfying than the gameplay within it, even as that world was itself rather satisfying.
Rating: 3 / 5
This game is fan-freakin-tastic I’ve been playing video games sense the Atari 2600, I’m in my late 30s and don’t have much time to spend playing video games any more, but this game is worth sacrificing precious time for.
First off the sound track is fantastic “if you’re into 80’s heavy metal” and the voice acting is spot on, so many cameos it’s unbelievable. Jack Black nails it.
Secondly the graphics are amazing, this world based on heavy metal album covers it’s fantastic so much eye-candy it’s unreal. You just want to drive around so you don’t miss anything, every corner you come around it’s like “hay look at that!”
Third the game play is great, smooth combat I love how they mixed the melee with the guitar magic mid range attacks fracking original. And the solo system is smooth and not cumbersome. Three main game formats here solo combat, driving, and real time strategy. All done well, melee is smooth, driving is a bit tricky in this landscape but well worth mastering because the Duce rocks, real time strategy here is a fairly simple system some people will want more control but were talking band members, bouncers, and head-bangers here not well trained military units it works and keeps with the spirit of the game.
As for the length sure if you go from main mission to main mission one after the other, and power game it, this game is short with the dialog and storyline the length fits. No this game is not epic sized like Oblivion but you can complete Oblivion in less than 10 hours if you simply power game it.
This game will hold your attention and keep it. It’s one of the most original games I’ve seen in the past 10 years.
Rating: 5 / 5