![]() ![]() 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. Heavy metal will never die! Brütal Legend is full of cameos from Gods of Metal like Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Lita Ford, and many, many others.Every vista in the beautiful universe of Brütal Legend looks like it was pulled from a Frank Frazetta painting. Streaming open world! Brütal Legend gives you the freedom to walk, drive, or fly anywhere in a fullystreaming open world whose art style is inspired by some of the most iconic and hilariously rad metal album covers ever created.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. Action combat! Brütal Legend's core gameplay is classic action slasher, but with a twist: ranged combat comes from your demon-slaying, electricity-creating guitar.However, moving through the main quest is always the biggest draw for me, and there simply isn't enough content in Brutal Legend for players who like to merely play the game from start to finish without paying too much attention to the other, more or less superfluous, extra content. Yes, there are a lot of side quests and even an RTS-based multiplayer component (gather fans, build units, attack enemy stages) as well as a ton of unlockables to keep you coming back. What's worse, those who end up enjoying the unsophisticated controls and repetitive hybrid gameplay will be loathe to find out that the mainline story can be finished in under six hours. Even the boss battles, which feature truly cool beasties, are no match for any seasoned gamer. Sure, learning a few combos and adding special Solos to your arsenal is initially enjoyable, but it all loses its luster quickly, turning into little more the a frantic button-mash at the best of times and lifeless micromanaging at its worst. Switching between overly simplistic action, arcade racing, Guitar Hero/alternative QTE inputs, and RTS controls gets old fast. Still, it's the repetitive, uninspired gameplay mechanics rather than the story that do the game wrong. The narrative, while humorous, isn't particularly tight in fact, it gets quite predictable as you get deeper in. Playing as legendary roadie Eddie Riggs, players have to free humanity in an alternate metal-reality. That's right the hybrid gameplay of Brutal Legend is not particularly interesting. I found it quite engaging, which kept me playing long past the time when gameplay left me flat. As you can probably tell, I loved the world of Brutal Legend. ![]()
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