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.
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Release Date: 26 Feb, 2013

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About This Game

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.

Combat

Brütal Legend’s combat is a combination of classic action slasher and real time strategy mechanics. Melee and ranged combat come from your double-sided broadaxe and demon-slaying, pyrotechnic-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. On top of that, players will journey from Roadie to Rock God by commanding legions of metalheads into Brütal Victory and sending troops charging into battle.

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.

System Requirements

Windows
Mac OS X
SteamOS + Linux

    Minimum:

    • 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

    Recommended:

    • OS:Windows 7
    • Processor:Intel i5 Duo at 2.5 GHz, or AMD FX 3.5 GHz
    • Memory:2 GB RAM
    • Graphics:512 MB GeForce 650, Radeon 7000
    • DirectX®:9.0c
    • Hard Drive:8 GB HD space
    • Sound:DirectX Compatible Sound Card
    • Other Requirements:Broadband Internet connection

    Minimum:

    • 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

    Recommended:

    • OS: : Snow Leopard 10.6.8, or later
    • Processor: Intel Core i5 at 2.5 GHz
    • Memory: 4 GB of RAM
    • Graphics: ATI HD 4670 / Nvidia 285 or better with at least 512 MB VRAM
    • Hard Drive: 9 GB HD space
    • Note:Leopard is not supported

    Recommended:

    • 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
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[1911]DaVinci
( 26.5 hrs on record )
Posted: 10 August
Listened to rock and indie music. Jack Black gave me the metal. End of story.
Music: 11/10
Gameplay:10/10
Ozzy Osbourne? Bitetheheadofabat/10
Fight System: 9/10 because it is very hard at the end.
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[3cU] Lucient Black
( 10.0 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 August
Worth every penny.The music is awesome, the cast is beast. But the story towards the end seems rushed. Overall a very metal game
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Jim Carrey
( 6.3 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
♥♥♥♥ game
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MotleyCrueFan
( 7.9 hrs on record )
Posted: 7 August
"Diary...of a mad man!"
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ilitarist
( 12.6 hrs on record )
Posted: 6 August
It's metal and it's strangest strategy game I ever seen.
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Adolf Stalin
( 15.5 hrs on record )
Posted: 6 August
It's a 10% of decent but flawed gameplay among 90% of autistic non-content.

The core (or so I though) gameplay is copy-pasted from one of the greatest video games of all times, Sacrifice by Shiny E. You have up to two sides fighting with each other for control of mana- I mean, FAN fountains to destroy your oponent's Altar- I mean the SCENE. Your small armies are controlled via simple commands and supported by your main hero with spells- I mean the SOLOS. It's a great concept really, and Sacrifice pulled it off perectly, of course.
The problem with Brutal Legend is that the devs had not a slightest idea how to build this kind of game. That's probably the reason they decided to cover it up with tons of autistic non-content, but I will get to that in a minute.
The core gameplay is over-simplified and absurdly unbalanced. You don't have to do any real resource management (your fans are generating only from the fan booths, there are no real base mana units) and from a variety of units, only few are relevant (among all three armies). And even they don't matter, since you have absolutely overpowered guitar solos who can destroy everything around you after a short QTE. It's decent enough for a few fights, but after you discover that the best way is to bait all your enemies into one spot and cast one AoE attack which will take all of them, there's suddenly no challenge, even vs the highest difficulty level. The multiplayer is dead anyway.
But all of above is just a small fraction of the whole game. There are up to 8 (?) stage battles throughout the whole game, which is laughable. The rest of the game consists of autism simulating in an open world area, searching for autism throphies and doing lazy side-quests, while struggling with hell of a driving model and collision issues. There's nothing to add about this part of the game, but at the same time it makes up to 90% of it.

The theme is amazing, but if you want to listen to some music, just open up your Internet browser. If it's this kind of core gameplay you're looking for, just play Sacrifice. This game is not worth it, unfortunately.
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Tomas The Feel Engine
( 10.1 hrs on record )
Posted: 5 August
9/10 Needed some Dio.
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Golwar
( 34.3 hrs on record )
Posted: 3 August
Considering that I'm totally not into metal music and that Brütal Legend suffers more than similar games from repetitive mission design and that its RTS elements are too simple, this game was actually a pleasant surprise and lots of fun. I'll miss the Roadie in his Deuce and all his friends.
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fr0zeN^G
( 0.1 hrs on record )
Posted: 3 August
funny game
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Most Helpful Reviews  In the past 30 days
19 of 23 people (83%) found this review helpful
12 people found this review funny
Recommended
9.0 hrs on record
Posted: 17 July
Theres JB.

If you thought Justin Bieber jump off a bridge.
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3 of 3 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
31.8 hrs on record
Posted: 27 July
This game, in my opinion, is the symbolism of how metal survived since its creation. Metal vs New Wave, Metal vs Grunge, Metal vs Emo Rock, and always, Metal will triumph. Pretty much how Jack Black's very own Tenacious D has written the song The Metal. The story is amazingly written incorporating everything connected with Heavy Metal. Oh, and if you love puns, this one's great.

Gameplay wise, it took me quite a while to really grasp the elements especially the RTS-esque battles in which I suck by the way, so it is a very subjective matter for me. Combat is challenging and you can expect to die a couple of times. The controls are good, and the open world environments are within the concept of a Heavy Metal world.

And of course, the music and sound effects, sometimes you wouldn't want to get out of the car just so you can finish a song that is playing. Old and new metal artists are available for you to drive with, including Megadeth, Mastodon, Anthrax, etc.

This game is very enjoyable and you can expect to have a very good time head bangin',killing demons, emos, and 80's glam-style enemies, road tripping and just about anything you can do in this game. Highly recommended especially if you enjoy the metal music genre.
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
34.3 hrs on record
Posted: 3 August
Considering that I'm totally not into metal music and that Brütal Legend suffers more than similar games from repetitive mission design and that its RTS elements are too simple, this game was actually a pleasant surprise and lots of fun. I'll miss the Roadie in his Deuce and all his friends.
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
18.7 hrs on record
Posted: 22 July
If you love Jack Black, Metal, and hot chicks, It's a must have.
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4 of 6 people (67%) found this review helpful
1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
10.4 hrs on record
Posted: 11 July
all the famous and best metal singers,bands and more stuffs are collected in this game,i remember when I played this game for the first time years ago.If you are a metal fan or metal head like me I recommend you to get this game if you are not into metal or metal singers also bands you won't understand the elements of brütal legend.

featuring characters in game

Eddie -> Jack Black (also voice actor of Eddie)
Lars Halford -> Dave Mustaine
Lita Ford -> Lita Halford
Kage the Kannonier -> Kyle Gass (also voice actor of Kage)
Kill Master -> Legendary Ian Fraser Kilmister in short LEMMY!(also voice actor of Kill Master) Rest in Piece the Legend <3
Guardian of Metal -> Ozzy osbourne (also voice actor of Guardian of Metal)
Fire Baron -> Rob Halford (also voice actor of Fire Baron)

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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
18.9 hrs on record
Posted: 21 July
This game please Metal Gods!
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
25.0 hrs on record
Posted: 22 July
Awsome game, the most metal thing imaginable. All we need now is a sequel.
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
3.5 hrs on record
Posted: 22 July
This game contains Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy. Litterally.

It it didn't convince you, I don't know how to do it.
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2 of 3 people (67%) found this review helpful
Recommended
5.0 hrs on record
Posted: 27 July
Jack Black went so brutal in this game that he became a legend among metal gamers.

+Brutal soundtrack
+Fun gameplay
+Hilarious moments in dialogues

-Mediocre graphics for its time
-Can be buggy at times
-Need moar Jack Black!
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