WIRED Highly entertaining story, some stellar voice performances, great graphics and soundtrack. The hybrid gameplay just doesn't meet these high standards. Growing up listening to metal is more than just a choice of music, its a lifestyle. I just wish it had felt less like work to get there.īrütal Legend does a lot of things wonderfully: It's a technically adept, graphically beautiful game with a surprisingly good story and a great soundtrack. The Consensus: Brutal Legend Review PS3 Reviews Oct 13, 2009. It still wasn't easy, but I finished - and yes, the ending was great. So I did something I almost never do: I turned the difficulty setting down, which had the fortuitous result of making the computer opponents stupid enough for me to beat. I realized that I no longer had any desire to learn the intricacies of the battle system and overcome the enemy.īut I really, really wanted to finish the story. I'd grown bored with the repetitive side quests and I was stuck on a strategy battle in which the computer kept overrunning me. I'd started out mostly enjoying the combat and the light strategy, but the game had largely abandoned that by this point. All I could think was, "This is not what I bargained for."Ībout 80 percent of the way through the game, I'd reached my breaking point. Level up your base so you can bring in better units. Play a guitar solo to buff up your warriors. Your job, instead, is to shuffle like crazy through a host of menus: Send your units to control a tower. You can still jump down on foot and start hacking away at enemies, but there will be so many of them that you'll die quickly. The on-foot dungeons and one-on-one boss battles disappear, and the rest of the game's big story beats are played out strategically. Simple stuff, and the emphasis is still largely on attacking enemies solo with Eddie's giant ax and magic flamethrower-guitar.īut before you know it, you're doing much more managerial work. It starts out with bite-size portions: You get a group of headbangers to help you fight your first couple of boss battles, and you can command them to attack, retreat or defend. What's interesting is that Brütal Legend doesn't drop all this on you at once. You're flying over a map, battling for control points and resources, using them to generate attack units, and sending your fighters off to engage the enemy: In short, it's a rock-themed Command & Conquer. A few hours later, what you're playing is almost entirely a real-time strategy game. After that, you're thrown into your trusty hot rod, the Druid Plow, in which you'll run over some evil druids and then fight a giant nasty boss monster by driving in circles around it and running over its tongue.Īfter this opening segment, you'd think you were in for a goofy God of War–style action game - and you would be completely wrong. This is exactly what you do - in the game's first seven minutes. All it says, in a bullet point to that effect, is "Vanquish foes with axe and electrified guitar." Brütal Legend's gameplay is hard to describe.
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