Product Description

Save the world with the power of rock, as the greatest legends of heavy metal take on the forces of darkness. Jack Black voices roadie Eddie Riggs, who gets sucked into a fantasy world inspired by the most outrageous album covers and populated by music-hating demons.

Not only does Eddie get a regular axe to wield but the guitar he brings with him from the real world is able to summon powerful magic when played. The game's a third person beat 'em-up at heart, but you've also got your own customisable car to drive and armies of followers to command once you get further into the game.

On top of that you get to team up with rock superstars like Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy from Motorhead, each of which can help out with their own monster-slaying moves. With a hilarious script from the best writer in gaming this game rocks more ways than you count.
Key Features

Rock 'n' roll: Demon fighting, hot rod racing, outrageous comedy and heavy metal collide in the funniest and bloodiest music game ever seen.

• Dual wielding: Intense third person combat as you wield your dual axes: your beloved Flying V guitar and an actual demon-destroying battle axe.
• Command & conquer: Summon heavy metal fans with your guitar and control whole armies of headbangers through Guitar Hero style mini-games.
• Motorhead: Explore a huge open world environment in your customisable hot rod - full of blood thirsty demons, goths, emos and other enemies of rock.
• Legends of rock: Featuring the voices and likenesses of Jack Black, Tim Curry, Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford.
  

---

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #147 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2009-10-16
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Save the world with the power of rock, as the greatest legends of heavy metal take on the forces of darkness. Jack Black voices roadie Eddie Riggs, who gets sucked into a fantasy world inspired by the most outrageous album covers and populated by music-hating demons.

Jack Black is Eddie Riggs

Take control of your own army of heavy metal fans

The enemy bosses also rock

The tour bus from hell is just one of the ways to get around

Not only does Eddie get a regular axe to wield but the guitar he brings with him from the real world is able to summon powerful magic when played. The game's a third person beat 'em-up at heart, but you've also got your own customisable car to drive and armies of followers to command once you get further into the game.

On top of that you get to team up with rock superstars like Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy from Motorhead, each of which can help out with their own monster-slaying moves. With a hilarious script from the best writer in gaming this game rocks more ways than you count.

Key Features

• Rock 'n' roll: Demon fighting, hot rod racing, outrageous comedy and heavy metal collide in the funniest and bloodiest music game ever seen.
• Dual wielding: Intense third person combat as you wield your dual axes: your beloved Flying V guitar and an actual demon-destroying battle axe.
• Command & conquer: Summon heavy metal fans with your guitar and control whole armies of headbangers through Guitar Hero style mini-games.
• Motorhead: Explore a huge open world environment in your customisable hot rod - full of blood thirsty demons, goths, emos and other enemies of rock.
• Legends of rock: Featuring the voices and likenesses of Jack Black, Tim Curry, Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford.

About the Developer: Double Fine Productions
This Californian developer has only made one game: the critically acclaimed flop Psychonauts. The studio was found by Tim Schafer, famous for some of the best known LucasArts adventures such as Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle. His next game is heavy metal action title Brutal Legend.

---

Customer Reviews

BRUTALLY AWESOME!!
First of all this review is not based on the demo, Gameplay for some reason dispatched the game on Tuesday and I received it yesterday, and then promptly spent the entire night playing it and am happy to report it is awesome.
How much you enjoy it though may depend on how much you love metal/hard rock, myself being a metal fan absolutely loved every minute, in the first three missions I finished there were more heavy metal references then I can even remember, some of them obvious, such as the appearance of Ozzy Osbourne which has been one of the highlights so far, and some less obvious such as artwork from metal albums which influence the landscape you drive around.
As to the actual game play, there is nothing new to break the mould, anyone who has played the demo will know what to expect in terms of the hack and slash, the introduction of the RTS side of things is most welcome and comes in slowly throughout the second mission and introduces you to the basics including double team moves you can perform, favourite so far involves the head bangers who you can have form a mosh pit around you, they then proceed to head band every enemy to death.
For the completionists out there this game should take some time as there are loads to collect in the open world, such as statues, and guitar solos which can then be used in a variety of ways, also there are secondary missions, so far the ones I have done have either been racing games or ambush missions, which again were good if not exactly ground breaking.
All in all in you are a metal fan you have to buy this game, you will love spotting all the metal references as well as the awesome soundtrack, which you unlock more of as the game goes on. If you don't like metal I would still highly recommend it as the graphics are great and the game is very entertaining and the development of the RTS side of the game should keep it interesting.

Genre Confused
Brutal Legend had a lot of hype behind it and a lot of my friends have said its fantastic but I cant help but feel disappointed. Do not by any means think that I am saying its a bad game because its not but it just doesn't live up to expectations.

I usually do very detailed reviews of games, so if you are looking for a more detailed review you might want to look else where because I am only going into why it disappointed me. The game starts out as a opened world hack and slash game, you drive around in a beautifully detailed world, which is greatly themed around heavy metal music and the first couple of hours are great fun. You axe your way through hordes of enemies, take down a giant spider and drive around in your car that you later upgrade. But very suddenly, a couple of hours in, it suddenly turns into an real time strategy game. By that I mean you have to build your stage, protect your resources and build troops and command them. I don't dislike these missions but its not what I signed on for. After playing the demo, the game is portrayed as a hack and slash and even though you can still fight while looking after your troops but it kind of took the flow of combat away as you had to babysit your army. Before you buy this game, make sure you preview these levels online, maybe on Youtube because if these levels aren't your thing, you will lose interest after an hour BUT if you do like these levels, you are in for a great time. I still gave the game 3 stars because as I said, I still don't think the games bad, I just feel it was ill advertised.

There are also mini games which are not very entertaining. This is where I explain the title of this review. There are racing mini games (which I actually really enjoyed), beat em up mini games and shooter mini games. When playing these mini games I couldn't help but feel like the developers where looking down a sheet of game genres and attempting to tick them off. They even have a small guitar hero replica that you need to repeat every time you want to summon a vehicle or raise a relic, just encase they couldn't tick off the music genre box.

The writing is also a slight let down, it was very hyper to be hilariously written and while it does have great characters and Jack Blacks voice acting is A*, it wasn't that funny. This is a minor complaint and doesn't make the game bad but with Jack Blacks reputation I was expecting it to be a little bit funnier but as voice acting goes its very good.

Overall the game is good, its beautiful, well written and has a large variety of different game types that keeps you interested throughout but as the mini games get very repetitive and the main missions stick very much to the RTS genre once it changes over it didn't deliver what I was expecting and hence I give it 3 stars. This is my own personal opinion and I am not saying this should put you off in any way, this was just a warning encase you were looking for something different like me.

Rock On My Friend, Rock On.
Brutal Legend is an adventure game where you play Eddie Riggs, a roadie voiced by Jack Black who finds himself transported to a metal-theme world where he must lead the humans to their destiny with the glorious power of heavy metal.

It really is as awesome as it sounds. The story is compelling and addictive. With your customized car you're free to roam the world for side quests and hidden unlockables. The artistry is superb. From the beautiful vibrant landscapes to the unique inhabitants, Brutal Legend takes a guitar to the face of it's competition and proves stark realism and drab grey environments aren't the only artform.

I challenge you to not laugh at Tim Schafer's quirky brand of humour. Animations are particularly impressive as more than once I got a big laugh from mere facial expressions. Voicacting is phenomenal, you can tell Jack Black had enormous fun. Keep an eye out for Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne and Jack Black's partner in crime Kyle Gass. Tim Curry plays the main villain, and delivers his usual chilling performance.

Over 100 songs can be played in your car from bands like Manowar, Dragonforce, Motörhead, Black Sabbath, hell even a little Tenacious D. For a more complete list you might try looking it up on Wikipedia. Don't like a certain song? No problem. Customize your radio to block anything you don't want to hear, or just streamline your favourites.

And now we get to the bad points.

Brutal Legend succeeds spectacuarly in almost every area except gameplay, which is usually the biggest factor of all. It's basically a mixed third person slash-em-up with real-time strategy elements. Sometimes you'll be off alone hacking away, others you'll be in a battle while ordering squads of men around with simple commands. Though certinally not bad, gameplay does feel quite average. Most sidequests get tiresome quickly, as they involve repeating the same basic tasks. Also it's not an exceptionally long game. You could probably complete it in a few days. There's little replayability.

Oh, I think it goes without saying this game is geared towards an audience who enjoys a particular genre of music. Yes I know I just said it. Shush you.