An awesome and unique metal inspired world is brought down by a seriously bizarre gameplay direction. What starts out as a fun action adventure game quickly turns into a monotonous and poorly executed… Read more
Thankfully the overused song in the title does not exist in Brutal Legend. Double Fine delivered this heavy metal inspired action game in 2009. It might not be fair to categorize it as just an action… Read more
“Brütal Legend” is a really difficult game for me to review, on one hand I love all the characters, the setting and the humor. Yes this is actually one of the very few games that are legitimately funn… Read more
I love Tim Schafer games. Grim Fandango and Psychonauts, his more recent creations, were awesome. The art design, setting and story were enthralling and lovable. And the same goes for Brutal Legend. T… Read more
Brutal Legend is an odd game, it attempts to combine a number of different gameplay mechanics and to a certain degree it is a success. In Brutal Legend you play the role of Eddie Riggs, a roadie for a… Read more
Brutal Legend to me felt and continues to feel like a giant stew of varying genres with an added hint of heavy metal. It’s the game that Tim Shaefer has wanted to make his whole life, and with such an… Read more
In Brütal Legend you take control of Eddie Riggs, who is a roadie that gets thrown into a heavy metal inspired universe where he has to fight demons and other bad guys. The game combines aspects of op… Read more
I have to start this review letting the reader know something… I was completely biased towards this game from the moment I saw the metal setting, Jack Black, Tim Shafer, and panthers that shoot lasers… Read more
Brutal Legend is a tough game to classify into a genre. It’s an open world action game with elements o f real time strategy. It also doesn’t exactly implement these genres at the same time. You’ll dri… Read more
Just to clearly depict my extreme bias towards this game I will preface my review by stating that Brütal Legend is my game of the year for 09. Yeah, it's like that. So why no perfect 5 star rating? Be… Read more
It's a bit unfortunate, because Brutal Legend could have been a really awesome game, but thanks to its reliance on strategy gameplay that no one was really asking for, it's merely a pretty good one. I… Read more
Tim Schaeffer is a highly-regarded game developer whose games haven't sold shit in years. Psychonauts was an excellent game that bombed unbelievably poorly. With Jack Black providing the lead voice an… Read more
Brutal Legend is a deeply weird game. Half real time strategy, half open world exploration, and a third half hack and slash action game, you could argue that there's just too much going on for any one… Read more
Well there is alot to say about this game for starters its jack black, when i wasnt hacking away at the enemies like they were 2 day old pizza i was rolling on the floor at some of the witty remarks s… Read more
I wanted to love Brutal Legend, even before it was released. I fought with myself, trying be converted by the game, and although there are many part I do indeed love. Ultimately the game here is a fai… Read more
Brutal Legend Brutal Legend is the game that could not decide what it wanted to be. When you begin the game it leads you to believe that the game is going to be a third person action game. It continue… Read more
Brutal Legend is incredibly repetitive. When playing the game for the first time, I assumed it would be pretty repetitive but it seemed like the game struggled to move forward. The hack n' slash aspec… Read more
Have you ever played a game that where two genres’ at the same time? Brutal legend does that. It starts of as a hack’n’slash-game but then evolves into a RTS (and remember “It’s a RTS made for a conso… Read more
Yes, Brutal Legend rocks more than any other game before it, more even than Guitar Hero. Meet Eddie Riggs, who is a essentially a badass dude sent into a heavy metal world to rock out and to kill some… Read more
Aside from a list of memorable titles logged away somewhere in the back of my mind, I don’t have any sort of connection to Tim Schafer . The attention he’s received in the past for being one of the fe… Read more
Originally posted on my blog . Apotheosis - 1. The fact or action of becoming a god; deification 2. Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone with extraordinary power or status. Do you know who Tim… Read more
Brutal Legend Review BRUTAL LEGEND REVIEW XBOX 360, PS3 There are not a lot of times when you can say there’s no good comparison to a game. If media ages, then gaming is probably in its teens, or at l… Read more
I found out about this game based purely on hype. Sure we've spoken about this on the podcast but alas my memory is not like the old days. I'm glad the hype machine worked on this one. Now I cant reca… Read more
It is the age of metal ladies and gentleman! Brutal Legend is here and it makes a fine addition to this Fall’s epic game lineup. Head-splitting metal music, funny witty dialogue, and fantastic creativ… Read more
Let’s make no mistake of it; Tim Schafer is an undisputed god of game design. As heralded as Shigeru Miyamoto and Sid Meier, Schafer is known for his great humor, strong storylines, fantastic new worl… Read more
Brutal Legend is a Heavy Metal dream come true for real music fans for that type of genre. Jack Black Stars as the main character and he does a great job but does he save this game from total failure.… Read more
A lot has been made of Brutal Legend not being what it is supposed to be. Many people thought it would be nothing but a hack and slash game. It turns out that Brutal Legend is much more than that and… Read more
Headbangers unite! Grab your battle axe and guitar and prepare for some serious, face melting rockin'! The very moment you insert Brutal Legend into your console, you'll notice that Brutal Legend is p… Read more
I need to admit, I have a huge man-crush on Tim Schafer. This probably came to a head for me with the release of "Psychonauts," easily the best action-adventure game on the xbox system and generally o… Read more
People who've seen Brütal Legend in ads or are interested by the heavy metal aesthetic of the game may find themselves confused and perhaps alienated by what it actually is. The thing about Brütal Leg… Read more
It's been a long and strange trip to get here, but Brutal Legend, a game about a heavy metal fantasy world created by the master of underappreciated games, Tim Schafer, is here. Between its subject ma… Read more
Tim Schafer has an incredible resume of games. Two of my favorite games of all time (Psychonauts and Grim Fandango) were creations of Schafer's unique ability to create humor in games, and satisfying… Read more
i wish they spent as much time working on the gameplay as they did on the talent. I had no problem beating this game in 3 days. I don't have all of the achievements but it's not worth the repetition t… Read more
Staring at a heavy metal album cover can muster up many thoughts: why is there a Black Panther shooting laser beams from its eyes? Why do I find that so cool? And what in God’s name does this have to… Read more
Brütal Legend is a great game, and I enjoyed it from start to finish. It's not perfect, but it has the quality you expect from a Double Fine game where it counts. Even if you're not a fan of heavy met… Read more
It feels like so long ago that we first heard of the epic, Metal themed, Brütal Legend. Revered game developer Tim Schafer's (Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Psychonauts) latest project. And the game ha… Read more
There is something powerfully ironic about Tim Shaffer’s Brutal Legend, a game designed to be a love letter to heavy metal…a letter which would likely include a parcel containing a still-beating human… Read more
If you've only seen trailers, official gameplay video or even played the demo of Brütal Legend you might think you know exactly how it plays, but as you experience the game it shows itself as a range… Read more
Jack Black stars as Eddie Riggs a roadie who is transported to another world during a stage accident. Although the premise may sound paper-thin, the brilliant pairing of designer Tim Schafer and Jack… Read more
Intro Brutal Legends is the new game from the mind of Tim Schafer that stars Jack Black. This leads to two important questions, first, douse it live up to Tim Schafer's masterpiece Psychonauts? And Is… Read more
Tim Schafer is a developer where you just can't help but to root for, he makes some of the most funniest and clever characters and the same could be said about the writing. So how does he follow up wh… Read more
Anything I would write here would pretty much be a copy of everything you've read about this game already. I will instead just share a few misses this game makes. The humor is great and I would say th… Read more
Apart from its hilarious plot and awesome soundtrack, Brutal Legend combines the fun simplicity of a hack n' slash with the strategy of a RTS, and to top it off it contains small doses of RPG here and… Read more
I really wanted to like this game. Actually, liking it isn't the hard part. Brutal Legend is an amazingly easy game to love; the setting, the music, the writing are all fantastic. Unfortunately, it's… Read more
Let's get the important part out of the way right up front: Brutal Legend is a funny, funny game. I liked the story a lot and was glad to see how well Double Fine have captured the ridiculousness of M… Read more
Not a masterpiece, and perhaps less than I expected of Tim Shafer, but nevertheless a genuinely enjoyable, sometimes very funny game. The graphics are very good and I haven't noticed any slowdown desp… Read more
I don't write user reviews, but the pitiful score given by this game's reviewer just forced me to post this. Simpley put, the review is flat out wrong. The controls and gameplay style are perfectly su… Read more
this is one of the best games i played this year till borderlands.a great multiplayer real time strategy game.the story is great ,funny for the first part but is not near the end as much.the graphics… Read more
Let me start off by saying this. Brutal Legend has one of the better RTS systems on console. I'd rank it just behind EndWar and lightyears ahead of just about everything else. However, that in and of… Read more
Let's get this out of the way right up front. Brutal Legend is an open world game with heavy real time strategy elements... I know, some of you may not get that feeling thanks to the very linear demo… Read more
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