Brutal Legend Reviews

The most metal video game of all time. Admittedly the gameplay is it's weakest link, but the rest of the game outweighs that one negative by far. Play this game for the honor of Bladehenge, for the freedom of its people, and for the glory of its METAL!! \m/

Fun game, great soundtrack. It is slightly confused on if it wants to be a hack and slash or an rts though. I takes a few hours before you even get to the real rts elements, and most of the side content in the game has little to do with it.

The rare proof that personality and vibes can carry a game even when the gameplay isn't quite there. Back in the PS3 days, I got BG because it seemed to be a mix of two of my favorite things: demon-slaying action a la Devil May Cry and Heavy Metal. This wasn't quite the case however, since it turned out to be a simplistic, open-world hack and slash game where some of the areas serve as batttlegrounds for real-time strategy gameplay in the 3rd person. Ambitious and unique, but sadly not very polished. However, the world itself, the story and it's characters make it MORE than worth playing. Whether it's the thinly veiled cameos from Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Halford and Lemmy Kilminster, the main character voiced by Jack Black or the wonderfully evil Emperor Doviculous played by the legendary Tim Curry, the world of Brutal Legend is filled to the brim with fun characters and ridiculous concepts such as battlewagons that are essentially motorized pipe-organs. And the soundtrack containing some of the best selections out of every subgenre of Metal is honestly worth the price of admission itself, since it's comes in its own folder upon installation, allowing you to listen to it both inside and outside of the game. Meddl, Loide!

Fun game but feels a little clunky at times. If you like Psychonauts or Tenacious D you'll probably jive with the humor of this game. Great music and deeper lore than I was expecting. Main campaign is short, and side content is a little repetitive. BUT, I got this game for super cheap so it's definitely worth it.

Awesome music, artstyle and voice-acting. The game mechanics are a bit more problematic. While the gameplay ideas iteself are very good, the main issue is, that the game was developed for consoles and thus the interface is centered around controllers. This works fine for driving and fighting but when the RTS elements come into play, a regular mouse/keyboard interface would have been vastly superiour. Most of the time, I did not bother trying to get the details of the tactical system working, because it was just such a hastle to trying to select individual squads. In the end you end up telling everyone to go to the same point, because anything more complex simply does not work with a controller. That's quite a petty, because the RTS part clearly is interesting. So in the end, absolutely get it for the world, characters and awesome brütal metal. But be prepared, that some game elements lack excellence in execution by being forced into a console title.

this game is a metal heads wet dream. the licensed soundtrack is obviously made by metal heads who know their shit. cradle of filth, motorhead, tenacious d, slayer, black sabbath, ozzy, motley crue, judas priest, rotting christ, Emperor, fucking Manowar with Die for Metal as well as dethklok's murmaider! and that's just a few examples so needless to say that there is a good variety of metal including some lesser known stuff and it doesn't have just the bands top hits either. i could spend all day gushing about the soundtrack or about what other songs i would've loved to see put in the game. there are lots of references to everything metal as well including some cameos (RIP Lemmy Kilmeister). the gameplay itself is a pretty basic god of war like combat with some very basic RTS/Tower Defense gameplay as well. nothing too special but still fun. Jack Black being the main character is also pretty cool. Story is alright as well and the game has some humor to it as well. overall, i had a blast with this game and i would love to see a sequel but that may never happen :(

A trap for crying babies. It's a RTS (you hit that after a few GTA-like hours) and it won't hand hold you much. You'll most likely need to read about mechanics. If you are ok with that, it's a total blast (you get to command battles while ramming enemy troops with your car, playing OG metal)

Fantastic experience, although unique. You can decide whether that is in a good or bad way. All I will say is that I would absolutely dig up a sequel in the same format.

Great game!! it has an awesome metal soundtrack and driving around the world is cool AF. such great metal game design!! only thing that kinda holds the game back is combat sometimes and later RTS elements that come outta nowhere.even with these small complaints i still give brutal legend A++ or S rank. I think this is what games are meant to be! buy it and have a kick ass time.

This game is always a blast. Great to grab during a sale and add to the deck! JB crushes it in this game!