Brütal Legend 17+
Double Fine Productions, Inc.
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- £14.99
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Description
*Note: this version of Brütal Legend is single player only.
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes. Featuring the talents of comedian, actor and musician, Jack Black as super roadie Eddie Riggs, as well as cameos by some of the biggest names in metal music it's a wild ride in the belly of the beast that is not to be missed by gamers and Metalheads alike.
Story
The vivid and wildly creative world of Brütal Legend 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.
Combat
Brütal Legend’s combat is a combination of classic action slasher and real time strategy mechanics. Melee and ranged combat come from your double-sided broadaxe and demon-slaying, pyrotechnic-creating guitar. Add that 1-2 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 that is fun for the core gamers and accessible for the casual. On top of that, players will journey from Roadie to Rock God by commanding legions of metalheads into Brütal Victory and sending troops charging into battle.
A Streaming Open World
Brütal Legend gives you 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.
Packed With Cameos and Voice Talent
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: 1970’s classic metal to 1980’s hair metal to the scarier cousins of 1990’s 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 like School of Rock and High Fidelity.
Music
The music in Brütal Legend is truly massive. Made up of 108 of the most rocking tracks from 75 different bands representing every sub-genre of metal, it is something to experience in and of itself.
What’s New
Version 1.1.1
Update for macOS Catalina support.
Ratings and Reviews
AWESOME game, but the console lets it down
Not owning a proper games console (e.g. PS3/Xbox) then I was really excited when I saw this on the appstore and downloaded it right away.
The game is well worth it, but in order for it to run smoothly then I have to turn the resolution down to 800x500. And I can’t set it to default to this. Every time I open the game it’s reset my settings…
The controls aren’t well thought out for keyboard either, but once you’ve spent a few minutes optimising them for yourself then it’s fine.
Overall the game scores 5/5, but I rated 4/5 because it doesn’t run on my mac as well as I’d’ve hoped...
Excellent game, poorly optimised
This game is fantastic, I wont go into detail as you can find that kind of information online through professional reviews but I will make sure that you are aware of a couple of things:
This game runs reasonably well on my Macbook Pro, 13", 2.5GHz Dual Core i5 with an upgraded 10GB of RAM. I do have to have the quality on fairly low with shadows turned off and resolution slower to get a consistant frame rate with VSync still turned on. Can't help but be a little disappointed that this has to be the case compared to the quality of graphics of other games released around that time (Portal 2 etc.) that I can run. At the end of the day though, it is a large, open world game which does run at a consitant frame rate on the lower settings so I can't really complain.
The controls are poorly optimised for keyboard and mouse, they are fiddly and awkward and even though the mappings to the keyboard can be customised, it's simply not comfortable to be trying to press up to 4 keys spread across one half of the keyboard all at one time. I must also stress that there is NO NATIVE CONTROLLER SUPPORT, furthermore, controller mapping does not work particularly well on this game either. That is the reason why this is not a 5* review. When fully functional controller support is available, I will become a very happy person and will upgrade this rating to 5*.
All in all though, this is a very enjoyable, humourous and entertaining game which I do recommend, despite the poor controller mapping to the keyboard and mouse which takes an awful lot of time to get used to.
Where's gamepad support
I can't say if I love or hate this game, since I haven't been able to play it. All I know is that my gamepad doesn't work, and it's a horrible experience to play with keyboard and mouse. (My gamepad works perfectly with other games.)
Apparently the steam version works with a gamepad, so I'm not sure why this one doesn't. I really hope the devs will soon bring an update with gamepad support.
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Information
- Provider
- Double Fine Productions, Inc.
- Size
- 8.5 GB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.9 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 17+ Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humour Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Copyright
- © and ™ 2013 Double Fine Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Price
- £14.99
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.