just started playing brutal legend and i am am not brutally disappointed yet. I bought it cheap mostly to bother a friend who was really jonesing for it and had preordered and ended up not getting it. I remember a lot of reviews whining about the RTS aspects... reminds me kind of like overlord or those types of games more than an RTS. That being said i do love a good RTS (on pc please) and really don't mind that part of the game. Open world is quite as empty as some folks said. I am about 25% of the way thru and hope it stays good.