Brütal Legend

Brütal Legend

By Double Fine Productions, Inc.

  • Category: Games
  • Release Date: 2013-08-01
  • Current Version: 1.1.1
  • Adult Rating: 17+
  • File Size: 7.94 GB
  • Developer: Double Fine Productions, Inc.
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 10.9

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.

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Reviews

  • Uninspiring Slasher

    2
    By cheshiregrrrl
    I LOVE Double Fine Studios (The Cave is my fav game ever), rock n roll, and Jack Black. So, I appreciated the themes of this game for sure. But, the gameplay was challenging for me because it requires a lot of keyboard/mouse agility, and basically all you do is slash people with an axe and drive around. My boyfriend is more skilled at keyboard/mouse so he was able to navigate the game easily. However, while both of us got good laughs at the themes in the first hour of game play, neither of us were motivated to play it ever again.

  • Fantastic

    5
    By Davie williams
    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

    2
    By MathiasTolerain
    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.

  • "But metal was much too strong"

    5
    By Bubur
    This is the first game I've ever bought on the Mac App Store, and totally worth it! Really funny, Jack Black is the man, less than $10… Why not go for some rock’n’roll baby?!

  • "Cultish" in more than one way...

    3
    By the neb
    Every genre of film has "cult classics," and games are no different. This game is only enjoyable if you're already in the cult. If the answer to both of these questions is yes, then you are. If not, it may not be worth your time. Do you like Jack Black or Tenacious D? If so, this game's sense of humor will resonate with you, and you will laugh the whole time; you might even feel awesome on occasion. Do you like metal or Tenacious D? If so, the game's soundtrack, story, and general world will please you. Do you just like Tenacious D? Yes, this game is for you. Here's the deal: as a game, Brutal Legend is neither legend nor brutal. In fact, it's very easy and forgettable. As a hack-and-slash, the gameplay is weak (any of the Dynasty Warriors series is ten times as exciting, despite their incredibly repetitive nature). The controls for the mac version are slightly frustrating, so having a controller is helpful. The game's redeeming strength is the world and story, which are very cult-like (so if you're into demons, blood-spilling, sacrifices, weird robes, and all that craziness…) and metal-like (a few brief examples from early in the game: you do battle with sweet guitars, you'll meet Ozzy and some other musical gods, and you'll recruit headbangers for your army). If music could create a world, the metal world might actually resemtble this game - except that there would actually be things strong enough to kill you. As a whole, 3/5. It has an enjoyable atmosphere and fun characters, but the game itself is not really challenging nor especially fun to play.

  • Awesome game…but glitchy

    1
    By J. Harnick
    Absolutily love this game, but constantly caracters datamosh with background constantly, which slows the game down almost to the point of unplayablity.

  • Lots of fun

    5
    By Sandstorm5
    This is a fantastic game. It's funny, it's fun, it's challenging without being frustrating, and it runs flawlessly. The voice acting is spot on, the music is amazing, and the graphics are gorgeous. My only complaint is that the controls for driving are a little odd and take some time to get used to. I also wish that there was a jump button. Both of these things are completely forgivable, however, and the game is still great. I recommend it, especially at the discounted price it's at right now.

  • Simple, Fun and Funny! We need more like this.

    5
    By OneOsiris
    It has been a while since I do not play a game that has been so easy going, fun and funny. It reminds me very much of Heavy Metal F.A.K.K 2 released in 2000; carefree, upbeat, funny and easy to play. We need more games like this in the App Store. The price makes this game a bargain; grab it!

  • Great, but the map is quite buggy

    4
    By AudemarsPiguet
    Map controls are incredibly buggy, but otherwise great.

  • Amazing !

    5
    By iLucasLeal
    Heavy metal, blood and great graphincs and good gameplay ! its amazing !

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