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Graphics:
+ good face animations
+ coherent game world
+ many details
- old engine
- many graphical glitches

Atmosphere:
+ striking metal allusions
+ cool metal radio
+ believable characters
+ atmospheric environments

Sound:
+ good english dialogues
+ perfect metal background music
+ full soundscape
+ over 100 licensed metal songs

Balance:
+ eddie is not overpowered
+ fair checkpoints
+ all units are useful

Story:
+ eventful
+ exciting
+ interesting revelation
- is interrupted by "boring" strategy passages

Weapons & Extras:
+ useful combo attacks
+ meaningful upgrades for weapons and car
+ learnable riffs
- only ax and electric guitar

Game Size:
+ 8 hours long campaign
+ open world
+ a lot to discover

Others:
- keyboard and mouse controls leave something to be desired

Beatings, lawn, Heavy Metal and strategy? Double Fine united all in Brutal Legend.
A strange, hybrid of hack’n’slash action, real-time strategy and open-world racing/exploring.
The laughs leaving you with a story that is cool and bizarre but lacking in the bite of the opening scenes.

Graphically the game looks a bit better than the console versions due to the increased draw distances and a few other small improvements, but it is not visually impressive. I like the art style. Heads are chopped off, blood is splattered, and faces melted, but it's all in good fun. It looks OK for a game that came out in 2009, but it's 2014 now, so I think most people will expect more.

Brutal Legend follows a metal freak, which takes on an appropriately fantasy world. The first time you take control of Eddie, one might feel as if you are playing a rather standard action game, because mashes from simple combos is your way to bloody slaughter groups of enemies. The story takes plenty of twists and turns along the way and deals with some interesting themes of quiet heroism and personal sacrifice. There is a great open world where you die if you touch water and the only thing to do outside of the storyline is cloned minigames offers me the scope to go ♥♥♥♥ing nuts that it thinks it does. Collectors and obsessive compulsives will find plenty to do in Brutal Legend. There are many side quests (could be more variety) waiting to be accepted, appear helpful on the map, so you do not have to search around.

Brütal Legend looks wonderful, and it feels wonderful, but it isn’t quite wonderful, not really.
The game combine humor, music, clever gameplay and the voice is a great work. You haven't played a game like this before and won't want to miss it. Its not perfect but unique!

Score: 81 / 100


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Awesome soundtrack of the best metal songs ever,
Awesome Hack'N'Slash gameplay with RTS elements,
Fantastic Heavy Metal open world,
Amazing voice actors ranging from Jack Black and Tim Curry to Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy.
The humor are just incredible, easily one of the best games ever.

One of those games that are smarter than they look.
Inside there is a ton of references, cool gameplay
moments, and good old METAL! Certainly give it a shoot,
for if you know who's the Great Ozzy is, or what is "Motorhead"
you will have a good time. And it's also one of the best
"in-style" games I've ever seen. Just look at the menu!!!

One of the coolest games around. Brutal Legend combines Heavy Metal, Rock, Hack and Slash and RTS all in a massive and gorgeous apocalyptic open world.

Featuring a 20+ hour storyline and plenty to do after. Brutal Legend is definitely a gem in Double Fine's crown.

Loses points sadly due to requiring a controller to play, the keyboard and mouse is...do-able, but when it takes you three hours to do a simple racing mission, it's arguably not worth it.

Nice way to spend your hour :D
+ BEST soundtrack EVER
+ Nice charachters
+ Plot twists
- Controls aren't so good for pc

I wish I would've played this sooner! I started it a long time ago, but it got lost in the backlog of steam sales and humble bundles, now the multiplayer portion seems pretty much dead. it is a shame too, because it is really fun. The campaign really grew on me too. It was an action game with a unique storyline and Brutal mode lived up to the name in my opinion. Money well spent.

This game is awesome. And so metal. Sooooo metal. The mix of free-roam, tactical skirmishes, strategic battles, hack&slash, and music works amazingly well. A huge surprise was that the characters were actually interesting and the story well worth playing through, unlike most games of this type (more like the games it draws from, because there are no other games like this).

This gets a recommandation without hesitation from me. My only regret is how long it took me to start playing it.

Heavy metal, women, more heavy metal, gore, battles, booze. your guitar shoots electricity and can summon a giant burning zepelin to crush them demons, summon your all migthy beast (car or animal) and ride them, f**king enemies up, more heavy metal, wield an axe that you may upgrade (with the rest of the stuff) to be a holy soul eating fu**, more heavy metal, swearing, teach the future chick who will kill you to french kiss, did i mention heavy metal?

PROS:

-SOUNDTRACK: Great soundtrack(the heavy metal songs and the overworld ones, very relaxing), actually a lot of ppl listens to heavy metal because of this game( like me)

-VOICE ACTING: Fu**ing great! It has JB( Jack black, Leader of the band Tenacious D with Kyle, actor in films like King Kong 2005 , The Pick of Destiny and voice actor of Kung Fu Panda, as Po) as Eddie Riggs, Kyle Gas( partner of Jack black) as the Cannoner and the random bat dad guy, Ozzy Osbrown( or something) as the keeper of secrets, Lemmy Kilmister as Kill Master, etc...

-GAMEPLAY: Good hack-n-slash game with an axe to hack and a guitar to shoot electricity because that rocks! You may summon your car (druidplower) and ♥♥♥♥ your enemies. The main missions are good, but a good propotion of them is to escort the Tour bus with your car and the battle Stages, that i will talk later. The side missions are also good, but some repetitive. There are the Ambush, Race, Hunting record and Cannon defence + the unique ones, but of there are only one each.

-COLLECTIBLES: Yes, there are dragons to free, with the gods of metal reward you with tribute and for every 10 dragons a upgrade (Health, regen, etc), Legends, to look the past and how was everything created, artwork, the Metal Songs, that add more songs to your soundtrack. and fairies, that give you tribute if you catch them.

-METAL FORGE: It is were you go and purchase upgrades for your car, axe and guitar + paintjobs(for the druidplower or your jacket), purchase cool moves and get some statues + Ozzy is in there...yes...

-STORY: The story is amazing, simple, but amazing, with a very good twist at the end( after the secondlast battle), tho it leaves you wanting a Brütal Legend 2( tho i doubt there will be).It is a 10-15 hour game, at least for me.

DLC( included in the game and only in the PC version): Adds some skins for Eddie Riggs, your car, axe, guitar, and statues+ 1 new weapon and a new ram for your car+ an eye that points you in the direction of a collectible, helps a lot.

CONS:
-GAMEPLAY: There's another part of the gameplay, it is the RTS one. In the Stages( battles) you can create units by getting fans from merchandise booths in fan gysers, and basicly your objective is to destroy the enemy Stage. It feels like it is out of place fot this type of game, but it is fun non-the less, gets repititive tho.

-MULTIPLAYER is dead, tho there are those 2 random persons from the forum who decided to do some achivements, the multiplayer is dead, tho it doesn't suprise me, as it is only the RTS part of the game, and as i said, it is out of place for this type of game and has a rly poor ranking that it also feels out of place. Only good thing is that it let's you try the other 2 factions (Tainted coil, my favourite, and the other one).

-BUGS: Yes, there are bugs, not a lot of them, but some, some haves you stuck between invisible walls.

-DIFFICULTY: It is easy even on Brütal( Tho the final Stage battle took me 3 tries, and with them i found the trick to beat it). Ofc you will need to get upgrades for your axe, guitar( tho for the final hours of gameplay you should have it upgraded to the max upgrade) and the Dragons for health upgrades and whatnot( if you don't get those ofc it will be hard).


Conclusion: Heavy metal will never die, 9/10.

After Psychonauts (which I personally loved) Double Fine amazed us again with this awesome title. Brütal Legend!!! In my opinion a game that every Metalhead should play. Many hours of action and some simple strategy gameplay, which I found exciting and interesting of course. Starring Jack Black (As Eddie Riggs), with the guidance of various Metal Gods (for example : Rob Halford) and with an long and marvelous Metal playlist you will have lots of fun. The game amazed me

I give this game 9/10

Brutal Legend is better than it’s ever been, both as a single-player open-world game unlike any you’ve ever played and as one of the best unique takes on real-time strategy since Sacrifice.
9/10

The most f*ing metal game you'll ever play.

Do you really need more than that?

Seriously?

Well, okay. The game is a bit of a mix between open world adventure and strategy game, all played in 3rd person mode, so if you don't like mixed games or specially dislike some of those parts you might not like the game. Otherwise, is a fantastic piece of art.

An adventüre game püblished by EA, Brütal Legend püts you in the shoes of Jack Black who finds himself in a fantasy world after a serious accident. I like how ünique this world is - it is inspired by hündreds of heavy metal albüm covers. Of course, the müsic is just metal - you have a cüstomisable hot rod and when in the car excellent müsic is being played.

Jack Black's character has to become the leader of the hümans of this world and must lead them against some süperhüman beings. The game is like GTA i.e. free roam üntil you approach a güest giver NPC. Then a cütscene is shown and after that your mission begins. You have a guitar and you have a chance to acquire some unique abilities - the game employs real-time strategy elements, too; controlling troops is important as you alone cannot always complete the mission.

I have yet to complete the game, but it is sooo ridiculously over the top that it is a müst have!

Very good Game, it great caracters, great humor and a really cool soundtrack.
Recommended

Jack Black and Ozzy Osborune. If that is not enough for you, Brutal Legend has a mix of RTS elements along with action RPG. Great humor, good story, awesome soundtrack and lots of rock and roll!

100% SUPER ULTRA EPIC MUSTHAVE!!111!11!!1!!

With the only exception.. The camera sucks real hard.

BUT I DON'T. EVEN. GIVE A F&%K!
THIS GAME RULES THE WHOLE FREAKING WORLD!!

Okay , so let me start with this , I bought this game just now but I passed it long time ago and I just had to have it in my steam library !

I am going to do some good old pros and cons and I hope I will help you :)

Pros :
+ HEAVY METAL ! (If you like heavy metal as I do )
+Jack Black ( If you find him funny )
+Fantasy open world with lot of cool and heavy stuff to explore !
+Ozzy , Lemmy , Lita and moreee !!
+Good multiplayer (but unpopular anymore :( )
+Great artwork
+Hard game !!
+Only for real man !
+Nice gameplay system (Some maybe find this wrong but I really like it ! )
+Current sale ! It's only 3,74e so it's pretty cool ! catch it while you can !
+HEAVY METAL ! (C'mon ! If you are a man you must like HEAVY METAL ! )


Cons :
-Heavy metal ( If you don't like heavy metal ....you little ♥♥♥♥♥ ! )
-Jack Black ( If you don't find him funny )
-Bugs ( you have to deal with those , it's not a amazing port :/ )
-Maybe to hard sometimes


OVERALL : 9,4/10

Apsolutly amazing and stunning game !
Every music fan should have it and every fantasy gamer ! This is apsolutly a MUST BUY GAME !!

Put simply, this is one of the finest games I've ever played. A solid third-person brawler with RTS and RPG elements, it tops off its winning formula with a killer soundtrack comprised of 70's metal and 80's hair band tunes that will be running through your head for hours after a play session. Look for cameos by major names in the music industry, including Ozzy as the Guardian of Metal! Main character Eddie, a rodie-turned-messiah, is voiced by Jack Black and is one of the most likable protagonists in years.Lemmy Kilmister as Kill Master and many others too.Thank you Tim Schafer and Double Fine for this game!!!And metal history too!

A wonderful romp. Plus who doesn't like Jack Black

One of the most entertaining game i've played. Plus probably has best soundtrack ever !

Jack Black, gore, Hack n slash gameplay with RTS elements, a kick-♥♥♥ soundtrack, AND Tim Schafer
What more can you ask for?