“Epic Band Battles” And More in Brutal Legend’s Multiplayer
[shal]Jack Black[/shal] stars as Eddie Riggs, a roadie who’s sucked into a mythical Age of Rock to fight evil, liberate an army of headbangers from a life of oppression, find love, and discover his life’s purpose. Heavy stuff until one realizes the universe of Brütal Legend has sprung from the mind of legendary game director Tim Schafer.
[shal]Brütal Legend[/shal] marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom, set in a universe somewhere between [shal]Lord of the Rings[/shal] and [shal]Spinal Tap[/shal]. It’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which is full of imitation cover bands. The game is brought to life through a spate of chrome, leather, rocker babes, epic music, fire-breathing/stud-wearing beasts, mountains made of guitar amps, and more. Follow Eddie as he embarks on a tour of epic destruction with an axe, a guitar, and his minions as he commands the power of rock in epic band battles. It’s lighter-flicking awesomeness that will melt your face clean off.
- Action combat: The core gameplay of Brütal Legend is classic action slasher, but with a twist: ranged combat comes from your demon-slaying, electricity-creating guitar. Add that one-two punch to a guitar solo mechanic that can summon objects, buff your teammates, or cripple your opponents, and you have a deep, gratifying core gameplay combat loop fun for the hardcore and accessible for the casual.
- Streaming open world: Have the freedom to walk, drive, or fly anywhere in a fully streaming open world whose art style is inspired by some of the most iconic and hilariously rad metal album covers ever created. Every vista in the beautiful universe of Brütal Legend looks like it was pulled from a Frank Frazetta painting.
- Heavy metal: Brütal Legend is full of cameos from Gods of Metal like Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Lita Ford, and many, many others. It has a MASSIVE metal soundtrack from every era of metal music, 70s classic metal to 80s hair metal to the scarier cousins of 90s metal. And of course, Jack Black pays the ultimate homage to metal as Eddie the Roadie, continuing the theme from the work of his band, Tenacious D, and his previous films including School of Rock and High Fidelity.
- Multiplayer: Four-versus-four “skirmish” multiplayer marries action combat with a strategic unit-control mechanic. As the leader of one of the factions in the game, direct your armies in a Battle of the Bands where the trophy is survival, and even take your battle online over Xbox Live.
5 Responses to ““Epic Band Battles” And More in Brutal Legend’s Multiplayer”
Pretty cool game.
i thought this game was stupid at first and than i searched for videos of it in action.. i found a 8-9min video showing the begging and it looks really fun. When you do a super move with the Axe it shakes the foundations of the “death” castle your being held in until it collapse on its itself revealing a wasteland of the dead. Than you have to go down the mountain full of skeleton heads and as your walking the heads roll down the mountain. The game has alot of animations.
this game looks like a lot of fun
I pre-ordered this game as soon as I heard about it…heavy metal and Jack Black?? How can you go wrong?? If it was based on a movie I would be more hesitant but since it isn’t I think I’m pretty save in my assumption that this will be awesome, especially after hearing more about it and seeing videos. I also like the way the multiplayer sounds and the line “and even take your battle online over Xbox Live,” makes me believe that the multiplayer features are available online and locally which is always a plus. I wish more game developers would realize that many of us have friends that we actually see in person every once in a while and might enjoy playing games with them while sitting beside them.
@ giese095
thats how i feel about developers making games mutiplayer online only instead of breaking the (in your house barrier) i keep hearing about. i always hear how same house split screen is hard to do, especially program for online.. (2 people 1 house and online vs)