All that being said, once the player learns to manage all this, it becomes a lot more fun and rewarding, but it is still an unexpected addition which could be a turn off to a lot of gamers. This gets pretty taxing from time to time, especially when trying to remember to use guitar solos that can aid the army.

In these battles, the player still controls Eddy, so it is up to the player to move him around the battlefield, have the army follow him, tell the soldiers where to attack, and then attack with Eddy himself. The whole game is in the third person, as are the RTS missions. The RTS segments are not bad, but the adjustment to these unexpected missions can be difficult. This was a complete surprise for this game, and most players will not expect to see this type of gameplay. The biggest would probably be the RTS portion of the game. This game has a lot of good points, but there are some negatives. With the art style, voice acting and music soundtrack, this game screams metal from every orifice. The soundtrack for this game is also top notch–unsurprisingly, it is all heavy metal and features such artists as Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne and Megadeath. The rest of cast is also composed of pretty well known actors as well as a few heavy metal legends. The voice acting is top notch, with Jack Black providing an excellent voice over for Eddy Riggs. The sound in this game is equally as good. The textures are smooth, the environments are gorgeous, and the amount of creativity that went into every nook and cranny of this game is obvious. The graphics for this game are very good–it stays away from a very realistic look, instead going for a heavy metal art style.

Unfortunately, the learning curve rises steeply, and the AI will not take it easy on players. However, once players learn to effectively manage their army, use the right troops for each situation, and use guitar solos effectively, it becomes a lot of fun and pretty rewarding to win a battle. The first few RTS stages are pretty easy, but once a few missions have been completed, new kinds of troops will become available, making the game more complex. These spirits are fans that need to be captured by building merch booths over the top of them. Once enough fans have been collected, the player can start to recruit the army and upgrade the stage. Within each battlefield there are holes in the ground which spirits are coming out of. In order to upgrade the stage, as well as get new recruits, the player will need fans. This is where new recruits will spawn from and ultimately what the enemies want to destroy. The battlefield is laid out with the player beginning on his stage, which is his main fortress. About a third of the way through the game, however, the missions become more like an RTS. These start out as simple hack and slash missions with the occasional boss fight. There are also vista points which give a great perspective of the unique structures in the landscape, special jumps, bound serpents which will increase the player’s health when freed, and legend stones that will give a glimpse of how this world came to be.īesides the side missions and collectibles, there are also the main story missions. There are also plenty of collectibles and secrets to find, like Motor Forges, which will upgrade the vehicle as well as the weapons. The map is littered with side missions ranging from races with the locals, to fighting waves of enemies, and even some hunting missions to capture some of the unique creatures that inhabit this world. The gameplay in Brütal Legend is quite varied, from racing, to hack and slash, to RTS it has a little bit of everything. The player starts in a hub world–an open world where players can accept missions, interact with environments, and just cruise around admiring the landscape. These weapons and Eddie’s leadership will take the player on a journey through snow covered mountains, haunted graveyards, and everything in between. He also gets a guitar that can cause lightning and fire to strike his enemies, and can also be used with special relics to call up a vehicle, melt the faces of enemies or simply give power to armies. When Eddy enters this world, he discovers an ax which he surprisingly can use with great skill.

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