From the PlanetXbox360.com feature review:
"Who wants to rock out with their…best air guitar out? Well if you answered yes, then Brutal Legend may be right up your alley. There's no title on the Xbox 360 that gives the metalheads as much to love as Brutal Legend does. From appearances of Ozzy Osbourne to Lemmy, the lead singer of Motorhead, Brutal Legend is a long-lived fantasy come true for anyone who has picked up a guitar and wanted to shred as hard or as fast as Dave Murray from Iron Maiden or Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath. Tim Schafer, the mastermind behind Brutal Legend, has continued his clever ways of telling a wonderful story mixed in with charming humor. Playing as Eddie Riggs – voiced by none other than Jack Black himself – the single-player campaign of Brutal Legend is cheerfully amusing till the bitter end. Once Riggs finds himself ejected from the real world and walking about in a fantasy world that is ruled by the dark Lord Diviculus, the campaign of Brutal Legend never let's up for gamers to catch their breath. If there's a moment where boredom is about to set in, the game barges in and transplants them in a new scenario that is fresh and full of vigor."
Prepare to headbang your way into glory with these metal-infused games. You'll find yourself flipping your hair in pure excitement.
The Humble Day of the Devs Bundle 2022 just launched. It includes sixteen items including Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, Broken Age, and more.
The world of Brutal Legend looks like something a 14 year-old metal head would draw on their notebook while not paying attention.
Liked the aesthetic, tone, humor, and action combat.
Didn't care for the RTS elements.
Never cared to finish it.
Yeah they marketed the game like it was a Heavy Metal GTA-ish adventure. And at the beginning of the game that's what it was. The game fell apart when the half-baked RTS stuff came in. I'd be interested in a reboot or sequel, but just go full action adventure and ditch the RTS. There really is something there with the Heavy Metal theme.
PS360 gen was special, then again it was still the mid 2000s. Everything went to shite in the teens
I think that was the breaker for Doublefine's creative ambitions and their mixing of genres (which was getting kinda stale). It was a nice to look at but it was more of a tribute to the many things Tim loves, was influenced by and has great admiration for....but the forced RTS stuff was like a drinking buddy's "great idea" that never should have come to light. The game seemed a lot more vast, but it ended pretty quickly too. And Jack Black. As much as I don't care for him as an actor (annoying and requires constant attention), this was absolutely made with him in mind and it worked. I mean come on, Tenacious D? For as Metal as this game was trying to be, even comically, it did little more than meow.
Game is a lot of fun, has a ton of different types of gameplay in it (action, RTS, and driving) - make sure to pick it up today if your at all interested; well done Schafer!
Agree with the reviewer, game is fantastic but has a couple shortcomings that keep it from being a 90% or above; still a great job overall by the developers and Jack Black is hilarious!