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    Brütal Legend

    Game » consists of 10 releases. Released Oct 13, 2009

    Brütal Legend is a humorous heavy-metal, open-world, action-adventure game with light real-time strategy elements. As Eddie Riggs, lead the people of the Brütal World to rise up against the Tainted Coil demons who rule the world, and their leader, the sinister Emperor Doviculus.

    thepsychogamer's Brütal Legend (PlayStation 3) review

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    Brutal Victory

     Intro
    Brutal Legends is the new game from the mind of Tim Schafer that stars Jack Black. This leads to two important questions, first, douse it live up to Tim Schafer's masterpiece Psychonauts? And Is this just another Tenacious D but in game form? the answer to both is no
     
    Story
    Eddie is the world's greatest roadie, and a lover of metal. Unfortunately he lives in the age of Linken Park and Beastie Boys. When a stage stunt goes wrong Eddie is crushed, some of his blood drips into his belt buckle transporting a giant demon to Eddie's world, and Eddie to a world that revolves around metal. There he he creates an army to fight the evil demon overload lord Tubuclous (probably spelled that wrong). A big part of Tim Schafer's games are the humor. This game has very little, it starts out with a lot of jokes, most of witch are funny, but about a hour in the story becomes a serious tale about a rebellion in a metal fantasy world.
     
     Music
    The music is all metal, no rap, fusion, punk, grunge, or alternative, and features a large variety, from popular among the main stream, Rob Zombie, DragonForce, and Ozzy Osborn to obscure names for metal fans like Anvil. The library is expertly used to give a unique cinematic experience for most of the games, and escaping a crumbling castle is a lot more epic with Through the Fire and Flames playing.
     
    Two sides of the same game
    There are two elements to this game, the action, hit things with your axe, and lightning from your guitar section, there there are RTS elements, actually it would probably be more accurate to say this is a RTS with action element.
     
    Action
    Action wise you have two weapons, an axe, and a guitar. The guitar allows you to cause earthquakes, shoot lightning, shoot fire, and in solo, melt enemies faces. and with the axe you can hit things. you can buy combos and weapon upgrades, witch will help, though the car upgrades don't really feel like they have any punch to them,
     
    Solo
    Solo's are a specials that by completing a simple timing minigame will allow you to a lot of things ranging from raise upgrade shops to melt enemies faces. Most likely you mill mostly use this is stage battles

    Covered in metal god's love
    To buy upgrades, you need to get flame salutes from the gods of metal, you do this my collecting things and completing missions. It's not very complicated we've seen it in a lot of other games.
     
    Strategy
     During the game you will encounter a lot of real time strategy events, during these you and your enemy will each be given a stage. you goal is to destroy the enemy's stage. to do this you'll need units, to get units you'll need fans. To get fans you have to find a fan geyser, make sure no enemies are near, and then play a solo to make a merch booth rise, this will channel fans to your stage. to create stronger units you'll need to upgrade the stage the stage has three upgrades. My biggest problem with the stage battles is the load feature witch severally limited how many units you can have out at a time. You can join in the fight if you want, but if you die, it will cost you fifty fans. along with that you can double team with all you units, this will either let you control them or do devastating team attacks.
     
    Druid-plow
    The Druid-plow is your car in the game. There's only one thing left to say about the car and that is that the game's system for leading you where you have to go sucks, it requires you to take time from focusing on surviving to look a the tail lights of the car to see where you have to go. Most of the time you will be better off just finding the big stage-light in the sky and making your way strait towards that. 
     
    In Conclusion
    This probably won't appeal to fans of Tim Schafers games, but if your looking for an original game Brutal Legends certainly delivers.
    4/5

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      The gods of metal are confused 0

        There is something powerfully ironic about Tim Shaffer’s Brutal Legend, a game designed to be a love letter to heavy metal…a letter which would likely include a parcel containing a still-beating human heart. After all, it got published by the biggest third party developer and subsequently sued over by the second-biggest company over publishing rights. Maybe it’s that “selling out” is the anti-thesis of metal-ideologies (ideologies that  I guess include “don’t sell out” and “get fookin’ smash...

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      Decapitatioooooooooooooooon! 0

      “Brütal Legend” is a really difficult game for me to review, on one hand I love all the characters, the setting and the humor. Yes this is actually one of the very few games that are legitimately funny, which is not something I experience very often. Games that try to be funny often try to hard or else the humor is pretty stupid and not funny at all like “Death Spank”. But “Brutal Legend” just gets it right on that account. The dialogue is well written and delivered by a talented cast consisting...

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