I think I'm ready to talk about a really great one!
By the hand of the mighty and always incredible Tim Schafer, creator of awesome works like Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island 2, Full Throttle (HELL YEAH...), Grim Fandango, Psychonauts... ok, the man has a great historial in videogames (that mostly makes us drool all over the place...). Brutal Legend is the story of one of those guys that goes unnoticed in the concerts: the roadies. Always dressed in black, moving behind the scenary, taking care of everything and fixing problems without being seen, just to make their employees look great... This guy is Eddie Riggs, best roadie ever, who, prior to an accident thanks to one of the idiots of the group he works for, got himself transported to the ancient world of the heavy metal, where he will have to fight against demons using... wait: AXES AND GUITARS! WOOOHOO! yeahhh I like it loud.
Great plot we have here, so, lets get started:
Mix of action, adventure and a little of strategy, Eddie, brought to life with the voice of great actor and member of Tenacious D, Jack Black, arises in a gloomy temple were some weird demonic-like monks tries to eliminate him, blades on the hands, for sacriffice. Luckily, Eddie uses by instinc an awesome battle axe and his beloved guitar Clementine, wich will aid him as his main weapons of mass destruction. In this world, Clementine unleashes electrifiying power everytime she is played on battle or in a guitar solo, that is just COOL. During the story, more solos can be unlocked for better use of Clementine in battle.
The world has an impressive plain to tour, Eddie will construct a hot-rod, calling him The Deuce, wich can be upgraded too for a better experience on game. Plus it will be great to drive on enemies.
During gameplay, we will recruit different units; each one with a unique cooperative movement with Eddie, that will be useful to smash quickest our enemies... Enemies like followers of Glam Rock, goth music... lots of enemies for us to sharp our axe with, while we bang our heads to the rhythm of Deathstars, Judas Priest or Manowar, among others!
-Those guys gives us their music? No shit?!!
Fans, merchandising stands to fuel or solos and units... and plus the scenary, with odds such like mountains made from speakers or tires, piled metal bones, trees whose fruits are BEER BARRELS, guitar-shaped rocks... lots of references of album covers of the genre and missions bassed on songs like "Ride the Lightning" or "Run to the Hills".
Besides the great Jack Black, more rockstars share their image and voices, like awesome Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, and even greatest figures of metal like Ozzy Osbourne himself, to share some help to us, poor metal souls. We'll even count with an amazon tribe whose war paints are totally alike of those of King Diamond and KISS.
-Mighty Guardian of Metal, we are not worthy of your presence. *worship*
Soundtrack has 107 songs on it, from 75 different bands selected by Schafer and Emily Ridgway, being every song a "sincere choose destined to be loved by every fan of Metal". Yessssss, thank you.
Aaand, among our enemies, main evil one is a guy dressed in BDBS with more devil-like appareance than a thousand demons, and he... is... voiced... by the FANTASTIC Tim Curry!! Who the shell doesn't want this game, for Ormaggoden's shake!!??
-Tim Curry is under that skin? goood... goood indeeeeeed... *drools*
Plus to all of this, we could explore all the world of Metal in search for the sountrack's songs to play them on the car, free serpents's statues, search for monuments that will relate the story from the very beggining, small missions to pass some time if we want, before going to the next stage of the storyline... it has everything!
I liked heavy metal before, but didn't have so much songs in my folders, until I played this wonderful game, and is a genre that I like very much by now. Thanks for a game like this, with so much things to do, to explore, a great story, good music and many many things!
Something I don't like? the strategy parts; I don't like RTS, lucky me I love Starscraft and played it for so long that is something I'm good at, despise not liking it... but oh well! in general is a really good game that I highly recommend to play until your hads burns!
- By the power of Greysk...! I mean... Hail Ormagöden, beast of Metal!
After seeying this, you should understand why in Rock in Rio I was waiting for them to sacrifice someone while yelling 'BLOOD TO APPEASE ORMAGÖDEEEEN', right? XD
LONG LIVE HEAVY METAL, DAMN! \M/
