Fans serve as your band/army's single resource, and controlling fan geysers spread across the map is key to victory. In the game's stage battles, you are given a single stage (your base), which can be upgraded and which produces all of your units. It's a little while before you reach a point where this feels like a more full-fledged (if simple and action-heavy) real-time strategy game. This is a good thing, due in no small part to the fact that an entire game of nothing but Brutal Legend's on-foot combat wouldn't be the most pleasant of experiences.īoth your axe and your 'axe' can make a bloody mess. Just when you feel like this might be what the game is about, Brutal Legend starts letting you give orders to small squads of units, which is when the strategy aspect becomes more apparent. Soon, however, the world opens up, and you may get a strong The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time vibe as you search the landscape for collectibles and play your magical instrument (a guitar, which is, of course, much more hardcore than an ocarina) to perform solos that can summon your trusty car or reveal hidden garages. The first time you take control of Eddie, you might feel as if you're playing a rather standard character action game, since mashing out simple combos is your path to bloodily slaughtering groups of enemies. The story does lose some of its whimsy toward the end, when the plot is in danger of taking itself too seriously, but the over-the-top nature persists through the six- to eight-hour adventure. This all combines with a well-acted cast of characters featuring voices from the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister, and Tim Curry. Roadies are your strong but stealthy units guitar solos can literally melt faces and "fans" are your mystical, music-loving resource. Basic melee characters, for instance, are literal headbangers who smash their craniums against anything in their way. The magic (and much of the humor) is in how many fantasy tropes are twisted to fit into a heavy metal world. The game's strongest qualities lie in its writing, its characters, and its world. It's a real-time strategy game, even though that term may not accurately represent the first couple of hours of the campaign.īrutal Legend follows Eddie Riggs, a roadie (voiced by Jack Black) with a profound love of classic metal who finds himself transported to an appropriately brutal fantasy land that's part The Lord of the Rings and part Iron Maiden album art. Merely looking at screenshots or old prerelease marketing materials for the game can make it appear to be many things, yet it's not "Zelda with a guitar," and it's not " God of War as told by Black Sabbath," as cool as either of those things might have been. Now Playing: Video Review - Brutal Legend By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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