![]() ![]() I'd love to see Schafer take another stab at it with a sequel, but that seems pretty darn unlikely considering how it was received. I was actually a bit sad when the game was over because I felt like I would have been up for a couple more hours. It could have been done better, sure, but I still found it enjoyable, especially since it was paired with such entertaining story, characters, and world. The ability to run around on the battlefield and then sprout wings and fly up in the air to command your troops was a pretty cool mechanic. ![]() It was simpler than thought it would be (for me, a good thing) and the battles weren't as punishing/difficult as I expected. ![]() But I'm not a big fan of RTS games, and when it came out to largely middling reviews, I kind of just decided not to play it.įast forward several years, and I ended up picking it up after all (either because it was ridiculously cheap or maybe part of a bundle), and I was pleasantly surprised that I actually enjoyed the RTS stuff. When this game was first announced, it was probably one of my most anticipated titles because I love Tim Schafer. I liked Brutal Legend quite a bit as well, but I came at it in sort of the opposite direction. I'm sure there is an audience for this game, but personally, I wish it had stuck with the way it was at the start, as I imagine it would've turned out to be one of my favourite games. I thought I'd get an awesome open world heavy metal action game and was instead presented with some weird hybrid of hack and slash and RTS. In a way it's one of my greatest disappointments in gaming. I just wanted to fight and not have to worry about that stuff. I pretty much shut the game off and never looked back after I got stuck on a section and couldn't be bothered trying to figure out the right units to deploy and shit. I admit, I'm not much of an RTS man, so I was completely thrown for a loop when the game forced me to participate in them. It turns into a completely different game and expects you to play by a new set of rules you aren't used to at all. The game gets very heavy on the RTS aspect, and it kinda falls apart. Decent combat, soundtrack, humour and an interesting world to explore, but it quickly goes off the rails once you get a couple hours in. I'd heard there were RTS elements, but I assumed they would be an afterthought, or some optional thing you could participate in. Brutal Legend's multiplayer is online-enabled, so you can conquer your friends online via Xbox Live or Playstation Network.When I got the game years back, I expected it to be an open world hack and slash style game, and that's what I mostly thought it would be when I played the demo. 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. Kill 'em All! 4v4 "skirmish" multiplayer marries action combat with a strategic unit-control mechanic.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. 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. ![]() Heavy metal will never die! Brutal Legend is full of cameos from Gods of Metal like Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Lita Ford, and many, many others.Every vista in the beautiful universe of Brütal Legend looks like it was pulled from a Frank Frazetta painting. The second of the two, 'Hammer of Infinite Fate', contained both new maps, and new single player items such as Threads, new Deuce upgrades and Back. Streaming open world! Brutal Legend gives you the freedom to walk, drive, or fly anywhere in a fullystreaming open world whose art style is inspired by some of the most iconic and hilariously rad metal album covers ever created. Since the release of Brtal Legend, 2 DLC packs have been released, the first of which, the 'Tears of the Hextadon' pack was free for 2 weeks on PS3 upon release and features only multiplayer maps and the Blade of Ormagden Axe Treatment.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. Action combat! Brutal Legend's core gameplay is classic action slasher, but with a twist: ranged combat comes from your demon-slaying, electricity-creating guitar. ![]()
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