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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.

    Is this game worth getting if cheap?

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    Hizang

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    #1  Edited By Hizang

    I just got paid, I'm as per useal on my payday browsing Amazon looking for bargins. And I come across Brutal Legend for £7 (12$) and thats with Post and Package included, so is it worth it?
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    #2  Edited By SeriouslyNow

    Yes.

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    #3  Edited By EuanDewar

    Yeah sure, its great fun outside of the strategy stuff and even some of that is alright. Its especially impactful if you know of the music its referencing, there's a lot in the soundtrack and landscape to admire.

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    #4  Edited By GunstarRed


    Depends on how much you like the music in the game.   The game itself just isn't very good, the hack N Slash stuff is boooooooooring and the RTS stuff is annoying. The writing, soundtrack and laser-panthers are all great though.
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    #5  Edited By ArchScabby

    yeah, I loved it a lot.  Didn't mind the RTS type stuff either.

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    #6  Edited By Nux

    It was an ok game and the price is right. The game turns from a fun hack 'n slash to a so so RST rather quickly and that kinda soured the game for me. But if you like that kinda stuff go for it.
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    #7  Edited By EvilKatarn

    I believe I found out about Dark Tranquillity through that game. And it does make a fairly good use of it's soundtrack at times.
    It's definitely worth a shot for that cheap. I do regret preordering and paying full price for it, when it was going for only half of that like a week after.

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    #8  Edited By Tsoglani

    If you dig metal then you will like it.

    I think this game appeals to metal-heads because of the soundtrack, voice actors, etc,. and even though I dig my metal, it is only worth two play throughs at most. Decent game: there are certainly worse games out there, so yeah, for that price it is surely worth it.

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    #9  Edited By Hizang

    I love classic rock, Alice Cooper, Areosmith etc, this should help my enjoyment I assume. If I hear one Green Day, Linken Park song I will throw the game the hell out!

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    #10  Edited By Origina1Penguin

    It would be worth it at twice that, so yeah, you should buy it. I was unfamiliar with much of the music going in but I found myself really enjoying most of it. The standard gameplay is mediocre and the action-RTS stuff is unique so you may not like it but really it's not so bad.

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    #11  Edited By DrMcKittrick

    I wanted to love this game so much, but the RTS killed it.

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    #12  Edited By BrockNRolla

    It's one of the few games I've not ever finished. I thought that while the writing and the setting were interesting, the mechanics of the game and the actual gameplay don't really pan out. I got so frustrated in the last parts of the game that I decided it wasn't worth my time to keep beating my head against the wall. Get Trenched instead.

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    #13  Edited By SSully

    I had fun with it at full price. I would pay about 40 bucks for it, so have fun.

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    #14  Edited By jeanluc  Staff

    I totally understand why some people don't like the game and I'm fine with that, but I fucking love Brutal Legend.

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    #15  Edited By Rolyatkcinmai

    I paid $20 for it (Black Friday, 2009, when it was still brand new) and could not get past the first hour or so.

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    #16  Edited By damswedon
    @wasteguru said:
    I totally understand why some people don't like the game and I'm fine with that, but I fucking love Brutal Legend.
    Same here.
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    #17  Edited By karatetron

    I bought it for $20 a couple of months back, and it's a pretty great game. Some RTS fights could have been better, though.

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    #18  Edited By SethPhotopoulos

    Seems like it.

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    #19  Edited By shinigami420

    NO

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    #20  Edited By theoldhouse

    Definitely worth getting. It's pretty funny and has a pretty great world to explore.

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    #21  Edited By Cwaff

    I loved this game up until it became an RTS, then I enjoyed it much less... but still, you should play this game no doubt!

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    #22  Edited By OppressiveStink

    I enjoyed the hell out of the game, the RTS elements and everything, it was really short though, only about six hours. Remember while doing the RTS segments to make sure to help your units fight, I think this is the part where people get hung up. I never actually flew in the battlefield, instead, I picked up my axe, and melted some faces.

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    #23  Edited By demontium

    @Hizang: YEAH definitely.

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    #24  Edited By HandsomeDead

    It contains Jack Black, so definitely not.

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    #25  Edited By phish09

    It's pretty fun for the first four hours or so, until it just becomes a half-baked RTS game.  So, if 4 hours of gameplay is worth $12 to you then I say do it.  I paid full price for it, so I would have happily paid just $12.

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    #26  Edited By MrKlorox

    Absolutely. Just don't buy it used.

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    #27  Edited By totallybananass

    Is either of the dlc pieces worth the money? I also bought it cheap $10 and don't really feel like droppin half that again on dlc if it's not really adding a lot. Thanks Sorry if I thread jacked

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    #28  Edited By ShaggE

    Hell yes. As long as you know what the game really is (i.e., not a hack-and-slash), and you like Jack Black's style of metal-based humor, you'll get some good times out of it.

    Although, maybe it's just me, but trying to 100% that game is fucking ANNOYING, so keep that in mind if you're a completionist.

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