Ah, hello fellow head bangers, and button mashers.It is time for a review that will, no doubt rock the ages.This review as many of have been told about by The Ribs.Is of the latest Tim Schafer game Brütal Legend, now as many of you know.Tim Schafer has created and worked on some of the greatest games known to man. Such as Full Throttle, Psychonauts, and now Brütal Legend.This game is nothing short of a Legend! I'll start out with the story. You play as Eddie Riggs (Named after Eddie of Iron Maiden.)
Eddie is a roadie for the band Kabbage Boy.(A Nu Metal Type Band.)
After an accident, you are summoned to a land of METAL! (Insert heavy metal scream)It turns out you were summoned to this land to save it from The Evil Emperor Doviculus,who has this weird obsession with bondage, but thats okay. ( At least to some sick perverts out there.)
So quickly, after your summoned to the land of metal your introduced to your AXE! (Metal Scream) Where you proceed to beat up the bad guys, and learn that you infact need to save the land. Now, at the beginning of the game your quickly introduced to combat, and how to utilize your guitar to summon spells and to cast pain upon the enemies. In conjunction with your axe, now this is indeed a fun part of the game, and the combat is simple. You press buttons, hit the enemies, hit another couple of buttons, and, well, you did a combo. The game play is very simplistic, but that adds to the fun of this game. But can and will get very tedious, and the fact that when you get farther into the game, that you have to deal with RTS elements, and the simplistic combat.
Now before I go on about graphics and sound, I want to take the time and criticize the gameplay a bit. Now I don't have too big of a problem with the gameplay, but there are some flaws. If the developer would have stuck to one form of gameplay, it would have been perfect. Not that the RTS was a problem it was an interesting touch, but it gets so confusing and irritating. For the first three hours or so, you have the regular combat system, and then you switch over to the RTS where not only are you with your troops fighting enemies, but commanding them. There is a lot of switching between warrior and commander, and that gets a little tedious and annoying and also upgrading your units, I think it's too much for just one scenario let alone the rest of the game. But in a way it also adds to the fun.
Now on to the Graphics of the game. The graphic I feel for this game are beautiful, but italso feels like the original Xbox in way, that not much tweaking. Also they seem to be a bit glitchy, some times the frame rate will drop or the scene will jump for a bit, it's not much or not really all that noticible but you can catch it, if you watching a cutscene, and I feel it's a bit of a distraction from the game. Those are the only flaws I experienced with the presentation.Now, onto my favorite part of this game, the sound. Yes, I know you'd think the gameplay, and the graphics. BUT YOU ARE WRONG! Wow...that was a little Brütal, I'm sorry... But, in all seriousness, this is something I have almost no complaints about. The voice acting in this game is primo. Double Fine really took the time, and found the best actors possible for this game, such as Jack Black and Jennifer Hale. Also included in the voice acting are some of the greatest legends in Heavy Metal history. Which, in my opinion, really adds to the atmosphere of the game. The soundtrack is something that really, really pulled me into the world, it has all the greatest Heavy Metal bands from the 80's 90's. Including Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, and Manowar.
This game is a definite for any heavy metal, Tim Schaffer, and Video Game fans out there.
Anyone who loves, music, humor, and just Bad-Assery will love and enjoy this
game. And, now for the score...
(Insert Heavy
Metal Drum Roll)
Gameplay~ 8/10
Graphics~ 8/10
Sound~9/10
Final score 9.2
Remember Friends,
Play Hard. Game Hard!
Games, Gold, and Glory has no affiliation with Double Fine in any way, shape, or form. For more information regarding Brütal Legend, visit http://www.doublefine.com/.
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