The perfect game for the most metalheads around.
Sometimes a video game has all the ingredients to be a masterpiece, but the choice of genre is not the best. This was the case with Brütal Legend, a game that was the perfect action-adventure title if he hadn’t resorted to padding his layout in the most counter-intuitive way possible. Brütal Legend was born from the mind of genius Tim Schafer of Double Fine Productions, revered among Xbox gamers especially for the cult classic Psychonauts and its sequel Psychonauts 2.
Regarding production values, Brütal Legend literally had it allpromising to make it the definitive video game for gamers. heavy metal. Everything about the game’s presentation, be it art, design, story, world, or characters, was directly influenced by the heavy metal genre and subculture. It wasn’t just a tribute either, as Brütal Legend had huge licenses capable of fully utilizing the entire heavy metal fandom for your own creative vision. It’s clearly a game made by metalheads for metalheads, and still worth trying out for the music and presentation alone. Any fan of this genre and lifestyle will find this game to be a great collectible, whether a gamer or not.
Soundtrack selected was practically the who’s who metal legends: Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne or Slayer. This game also had the artists themselves, who were behind the soundtrack, and also appeared in the game, with the authentic voices of the artists themselves. The cast included rock greats, such as Ozzy, Rob Halford and Lemmy, who lent their voices to bring their characters to life. The acting was also brilliant and you could tell each of the metal legends had a blast bringing their respective digital characters to life.
The voice of the protagonist, Eddie, none other than Jack Black said itwhich fits the character perfectly (in Europe it would arrive with a fantastic Spanish dub, with Santiago safe in the main role). Who better to represent a metal music fan than the biggest metal fan turned metal satirist. Like his band Tenacious D, Jack Black brought his enthusiasm and personality to make Eddie most evil metal fan that one can imagine. However, given all the praise for the music, premise, presentation, and gameplay, it was particularly disappointing that Brütal Legend didn’t receive the same praise for its core gameplay and game design..
Brütal Legend began by presenting some fairly simple combat mechanics but effective, but players quickly found themselves immersed in the ins and outs of the game’s tower defense design, suddenly finding themselves caught up in an absolute jam of RTS genre battles. Introducing a strategic tower defense design into a game aimed at metalheads is perhaps the most counter-intuitive option imaginable.
Brütal Legend wasn’t necessarily a bad tower defense experience, because had enough action and excitement for some interesting times. However, given the awesome premise setup, coupled with the great presentation and musical influences, it was really a pain to get into long RTS battles when all you wanted to do was play the game.
brutal legend is available for purchase at Xbox 360 and in current Xbox systems through backwards compatibility.
