Brütal Legend is an action-adventure rock game with an open-world feature. This real-time strategy title was developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 2009. Embark on a fantasy adventure in a world inspired by the most famous classics of the genre. Command troops, defeat the enemies, and defend your stage. Enjoy heavy metal arrangement and the voices of the most renowned celebrities of this musical scene including Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford, Lemmy Kilmister, and Rob Halford.
The video game has been well acclaimed by the gaming community. Its unique heavy metal-themed fantasy world and the performance of the celebrities' voices create an unprecedented energetic atmosphere.
Story
Become Eddie Riggs, a roadie who under mysterious circumstances has been sucked into a fantasy world. You wake up in the Temple of Ormagöden and meet Ophelia. She helps you understand this heavy metal-themed environment. Learn the truth about your heritage and the history of this place. Soon enough you realize that you are not just an ordinary person. Roam the unknown territories, slay the demons and learn that you may be the true god of heavy metal music.
Gameplay
Eddie is a powerful axe-wielder. Follow his story and engage in epic battles. You can command troops and even use a guitar to defeat your opponents.
Unique abilities
In Brutal Legend, it is possible to use Eddie's superpowers. Yes, he is an excellent warrior armed with an axe, however, he is also an exceptional driver who is able to fly thanks to his magnificent wings. Eddie's guitar is an unusual weapon too, its powerful sound can deal with the entire horde of enemies just by itself!
Army of troops
During your adventures, you will defeat demons and free groups of people from their grasp. Some of them will tag along with you, each with different abilities and strengths. Make difficult decisions and command your troops to strategically strike at the enemies.
Powerful soundtrack
Brutal Legend offers original music filled to the brim with heavy metal tracks. During the gameplay, we can listen to such heavy metal bands as Candlemass, Black Sabbath, or KISS. Even the protagonist is voiced by a legendary Jack Black, a leader of Tenacious D.
Key features:
- Story - The vivid and wildly creative world of Brütal Legend is brought to life through a spate of chrome, leather, rocker babes, epic music, fire-breathing/stud-wearing beasts, mountains made of guitar amps, and more. Follow Eddie as he embarks on a tour of epic destruction with an axe, a guitar, and his minions as he commands the power of rock in epic band battles. It’s lighter-flicking awesomeness that will melt your face clean off.
- Combat - Brütal Legend’s combat is a combination of classic action slasher and real time strategy mechanics. Melee and ranged combat come from your double-sided broadaxe and demon-slaying, pyrotechnic-creating guitar. Add that 1-2 punch to a guitar solo mechanic that can summon objects, buff your teammates, or cripple your opponents, and you have a deep, gratifying core gameplay combat loop that is fun for the hardcore and accessible for the casual. On top of that, players will journey from Roadie to Rock God by commanding legions of metalheads into Brütal Victory and sending troops charging into battle.
- A Streaming Open World - Brütal Legend gives you the freedom to walk, drive, or fly anywhere in a fully streaming open world whose art style is inspired by some of the most iconic and hilariously rad metal album covers ever created. Every vista in the beautiful universe of Brütal Legend looks like it was pulled from a Frank Frazetta painting.
- Packed With Cameos and Voice Talent - Brütal Legend is full of cameos from gods of metal like Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Lita Ford, and many, many others. It has a MASSIVE metal soundtrack from every era of metal music: 1970’s classic metal to 1980’s hair metal to the scarier cousins of 1990’s metal. And of course, Jack Black pays the ultimate homage to metal as Eddie the Roadie, continuing the theme from the work of his band, Tenacious D and his previous films like School of Rock and High Fidelity.
- Multiplayer Mayhem - 4v4 "skirmish" multiplayer marries action combat with a strategic unit-control mechanic. As the leader of one of the factions in the game, the player will direct his armies in a Battle of the Bands where the trophy is survival. Brütal Legend’s multiplayer is online-enabled, so you can conquer your friends online (broadband connection required for online play).
- Music - The music in Brütal Legend is truly massive. Made up of 108 of the most rocking tracks from 75 different bands representing every sub-genre of metal, it is something to experience in and of itself.
