Brutal Legend

I owe Brutal Legend quite a lot. I wouldn't like metal so much if it wasn't for this game, and I would have never listened to so many great songs.

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TL;DR Every metalhead should play this.
Ok, so the game is nothing special if speaking about gameplay, graphics or content. It's repetitive, didn't looked good even when I played it shortly after release on PS3 and gameplay gets boring at times although it at least offers some variety in gameplay. But! A big BUT! It's has an awesome soundtrack, a comedic story and minions. You get to meet real gods, not imaginary ones - Ozzy, Lemmy and other gods of metal.
The game is open world action hack'n'slash with some tower defense mechanics. You gather your fans and headbang to awesome riffs. You can perform solos on guitar, it works as a skill. Your metal fans are following you and you can give them orders. It could be to defend a certain point, attack or follow you. Your character controls are pretty straightforward, attack, skill attack, block, evade.
You traverse the world in your cool car which is very metal because it's powerful, fast and looks cool. You do quests and progress the story by killing enemies in the huge open world and smaller closed instanced maps. Simple.
The game could be challenging at times but nothing too bad on easiest difficulty.
Oh by the way the main character is voiced by Jack Black and he sounds great. His character is also a true metal fan.
Graphics are not good (I know this game is old), a lot of repetitive textures and many areas just looks boring. But still there are few cool places to visit. Character animations on the other hand are pretty good.
No need to talk about performance much, it runs great on current PC's and has native ultrawide support.
Sound is the best part of this game. From voice acting to awesome riffs. If not for the music I don't know if I would've finished it.
It's a bit repetitive and clunky but it's worth it. You get to drive a cool car, headbang a lot, fight bosses and listen to great music.
Pros
Great soundtrack&voice acting
Few different gameplay mechanics
Amazing characters
Cons
Repetitive
A bit clunky at times
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Legendary game, Good luck to Double fine.

Eddie Riggs is a roadie. Not a common one, he's a pro, one of the old school. One that lives by the creed that rock and metal aren’t just words; they are a way of life. Shit happens, and an accident sucks him into another dimension, a strange and mystic one where “metal” is life.
The journey in Brütal Legend brings a lot of man-with-axe action to Eddie’s daily life. It’s a free-roaming action-RTS, a strange mix. You’ll chop demon’s head while commanding an army of groupie and headbanging metalhead to fight in a battleground. You’ll race with your custom car at high speed on a destroyed highway while listening to metal music. You’ll do a lot of stuff between your main objective: clean the Brütal Land from a demonic tyrant invader.
This game isn’t only an experiment (like almost all the other Tim Schafer team games), is a celebration of classic Heavy Metal. It’s fun to play, to listen and to see, it takes every cheap shot it can at hair metal, nu-metal, and other diluted variations on the genre. The ultimate evil, the enemies and its minions are monsters made up to resemble glam rockers or emo kids. It’s a unique experience that kicks you with hilarity and sarcasm at each occasion, scene, dialogue, at every single reference to the mainstream direction heavy metal has taken in the past decades.
The metal is dead. Long live the metal.
PROS
Mainquest is fun and intriguing, nontrivial, full of plot twist and cliffhanger, is incredibly well written. It’s not a long run but is a wright compromise between quality and quantity.
The story follows the adventure of Eddie Riggs, aka Jack Black that gives, face, voice and personality and soul to a legendary roadie. He is not the rockstar. He is the man in the back, in the shadow, the hero that follows up the main side characters. The Brütal Lands are filled with familiar faces: Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Halford, Lemmy Kilmister, Tim Curry, Lita Ford, Kyle Gass they all give voices and faces to cult characters, reflections of the rockstar in the real world. Legends of the stage.
The alternation between action fights and the RTS section is excellent. During the battles you’ll manage the troops, set up and upgrade the stage, build merchandise shops for the fans, when the army feels strong enough you’ll give orders and attack the enemy base. You can stay on the front or in the backlines, can fly on the battleground, smash in the fight and use your weapons to change the course of the battle.
Talking about graphic the game aged well, the cartoonish deformed style still rocks and works perfectly for the atmosphere. There are a lot of blood, gore and splatter special effects.
The soundtrack. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed the free-roaming with the car or boss fights. It’s not a typical playlist. It’s a playlist given by the God of Metal itself. Tell me the name of one epic Heavy Metal group or singer. It’s there. It creates hype, and it’s engaging, it transforms you into a metalhead gamer on your gaming chair.
The cleanest UI I ever have seen. You don’t have a map, no health bar, no compass, nothing: just Eddie and the Brütal Lands.
Solo guitar minigames. Remember Guitar Hero? You’ll have a little demo here, and you can use the majestic powers of rock to evocate titanic spell. Do you want to melt the enemies faces? You can. Do you want to smash a “Zeppelin” on the battleground (oh god I love that reference)? Why not.
Last but not least the game lets you put “censorship” to words and gore situations, the censorship it’s totally fake and funny as hell. Try it one time. It’s an experience.

CONS
From the story side there is a considerable difference between the overall quality in main and side quests. Sidequests are tedious, made with the clone stamp, they don’t give you anything more story side and they feel like a wasted opportunity. There are four main kinds of side quests: the ambush, the mortar, the car race and the hunting. Other than them in all the run you can find only two missions more inspired that are made like a minigame.
Worldbuilding is inspired, the areas are well made, but the lands are empty, filled with useless content to make it overall denser. Connected to the lack of soul in sidequest is a wasted opportunity.
Gameplay side the jumping is missing, sometimes Eddie gets stuck in texture and I think it was a needed feature. However, it is a minor bug and doesn’t happens a lot. Other than that each time you speak with somebody, do a minigame or fast sidequest the world reset itself. So the car, the enemies and the troops disappear. You have to summon everything back again.
The overall audio quality is impressive, but the game has just stereo feature. Image playing a game based on music and can’t enjoy it at 100% because there isn’t a Dolby option. So if you have a 5.1 or 7.1 system, I am sorry, but it is waste for this game.
Last minor thing is that the vibration feature is missing. I remember that on console was present and rocking, I don’t understand why the didn’t bring it on pc.

JUDGEMENT
This is my second playthrough, and I enjoyed it more than the first one. Despite its weaknesses, and in typical Double Fine tradition, Brütal Legend pulls it off and rocks for the ages. It's the ultimate tribute act, with metal in its soul and a heart as warm as a stage light. It is a Brütal world tour that wraps up humour, gore, music, and clever gameplay into one highly polished metal dream.
System Specifications
The game was played on a PC with the following components:
Intel Core i7-4790K
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
16GB DDR4 RAM
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This game is not only going to blow your mind... It's going to blow your soul

So this game basically consists of:
1. RTS-like stage-battles
2. Escort-the-bus missions
3. Kill'em all missions
4. Additional content like hunting missions, racing missions, stunt jumps
Why you should get this game:
+ many characters voiced by iconic rock/metal singers, like Ozzy, Lemmy, Halford, etc
+ soundtrack by your favourite classic and not-so-classic bands and singers (Judas Priest, Motorhead, Scorpions, Marilyn Manson and many others)
+ there is a rather enjoyable storyline
+ loads of collectables that either let you better know the lore of the world or enhance your character
+ unlockable sketches that let you have a peek into the creation of the game
Why you shouldn't:
- the escort missions (luckily there are only three)
- the escape mission which gave me an epilepcy seizure (it didn't, but still the colors and constant flashes are crazy)
- the game is pretty unstable and it hates Alt-Tabbing. Didn't encounter crashes while in campaign, but always had several while in multiplayer mode

Of all games, this game has the best music, ever. Gameplay is somewhat lacking (looking at the tower defense parts, mainly), but the humor, music and artstyle absolutely make up for it. \m/