Brütal Legend 17+
Double Fine Productions, Inc.
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- $14.99
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Description
*Note: this version of Brütal Legend is single player only.
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes. Featuring the talents of comedian, actor and musician, Jack Black as super roadie Eddie Riggs, as well as cameos by some of the biggest names in metal music it's a wild ride in the belly of the beast that is not to be missed by gamers and Metalheads alike.
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 core gamers 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.
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.
What’s New
Version 1.1.1
Update for macOS Catalina support.
Ratings and Reviews
Great, but the map is quite buggy
Map controls are incredibly buggy, but otherwise great.
Fantastic
The music alone is fantastic. The story line is simple, fun and enjoyable. The hommage to various rock stars is entertaining. This will certainly be a cult classic game.
This isn’t a deeply thoughtful story-line. Nor does it have technically difficult sub-games or moralistic intent. It’s a simple, fun, nostalgic time-passing game great for de-stressing if you like Black Sabbath, Tenacious D and heavy metal in general. If you purchase this on the mac (which I assume you are), you might want to change the controls around a little. Using a magic mouse, I had to change the middle button control to something else as well as the CTRL key.
I ran this game on a 27” iMac running OSX 10.9 with a AMD Radeon HD 2GB graphics card, 16 GB RAM and a 3.4 GHz i7 core. That’s a 2011 model iMac. I didn’t have a single crash or any other technical problem.
Jack Black's Game Starring Jack Black Playing the Roll of Jack Black
Overall the game is just OK.
The first 20 minutes are pretty hilarious as parody and the way the game does settings is novel and interesting.
The problem is that after that everything else is either mediocre or boring:
- The game does a terrible job of telling you where you need to go and when.
- Much of the backstory has to be hunted down by scouring every corner of the map.
- The initial parody gives way to the game taking itself WAY to seriously, the story suffers because of being taken too seriously as well.
- The car you're given controls terribly, has the turning radius of the Exxon Valdeez, and is more fragile than it appears.
- Your troops control terribly. The commands boil down to "kill everything over there" or "kill everything that tries to go past here." For fans of RTS games this will be a let down.
- Too many gagged dragons to possible find them all without a map, and no reason to try and find them all.
- Late in the game it is too easy for a wandering or random encounter to completely destroy your main character.
- Obvious self-insert charcter is obvious.
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Information
- Seller
- Double Fine Productions, Inc.
- Size
- 8.5 GB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.9 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 17+ Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Copyright
- © and ™ 2013 Double Fine Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Price
- $14.99
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.