Brutal Lege - Playstation 3

Arrived quickly and husband is enjoying playing it again

Basically, if you want my review in a nutshell, I think that if you are a fan of heavy metal, comedy, and video games, you have no excuse NOT to buy Brutal Legend. The characters, world, and soundtrack are ALL top notch and worth full price alone. This is because they are above and beyond what you will typically find in most video games, and pleasantly enough,much better than any Jack Black movie. So, expect to have laughed, headbanged, and stood in awe of the creative environments many times over before it is completed.That is why I loved it and the reason why I will recommend it to friends, not what is holding the game back. What really does, however, is the relatively short length and flawed gameplay. Maybe I have been spoiled by better action games but the regular fighting mechanics are not very tight or fun, just serviceable. The end result was desiring to finish these stages quickly with incredibly powerful guitar solos, rather than relish in the enemies' bloodshed during the heat of combat. Neither are the totally unexpected RTS portions of the game that amazing, because if you've never played the genre before, like me, they are not explained as well as they should be and you only get the hang of it by the last few battles. Of course, by then, it is fun enough that you will wish there was more because the game is only about 7-8 hours long, assuming you do a good portion of the side missions.Overall, though, this is a fantastic game with lots of potential to achieve greatness if a franchise is ever established, which should explain my title. The aforementioned problems can be fixed; the driving, which I have no problem with, could be made to be more twisted-metal-like; we could get more heavy metal stars like Dave Mustaine, Brendon Small, or Shagrath into the game; and maybe, just MAYBE, we can feature some Iron Maiden, Metallica, and Arch Enemy on the soundtrack. Opeth is unlikely but would also kick ass, and even if a sequel is more of the same it will still be good, since it seems like the world is rich enough to support many future adventures. The problem is, this didn't sell nearly as well as the developer had hoped and was left in the dust in favor of less original, more of the same sequels like Call of Duty and non-games like Wii Fit. We'll need to do all we can to change that, so buy this game new if you haven't, spread the word and hopefully we can make this into a cult hit.

I bought Brütal Legend for my wife as a Christmas present last month, and she's still playing it 5 hours a day!If you are a fan of heavy metal, you will love this game. If you are a fan of Jack Black, you will love this game. Heck, if you play this game you will BE Jack Black, because the main character IS Jack Black. Jack Black is Eddie Riggs, with bulging muscles and a manly cro-magnon brow-ridge. Is that why my wife loves this game so much?The entire world of this game is a Heavy Metal metaphor. The landscape is embedded with iron crosses, engine casings, guitar outcroppings, and smoking tailpipes. Your guitar kills. Literally. So does your axe. Steel-quilled porcupines and razorbacks on wheels roam the land, while Ozzy Osborne sells you upgrades for your mystical, hand-crafted, heavy-metal, motorized chariot with machine guns. Yes, Ozzy Osborne. He's even in the soundtrack. Did I mention over a hundred heavy metal tracks in the soundtrack?Brütal Legend definitely lives up to it's potential. The gameplay is smooth with a lot unique features. The controls are forgiving so you can concentrate on playing the game rather than mastering the controls. The only difficulty is during the big rock battles; you have to be very, VERY near your troops to get them to listen to your commands.This would be my favorite PS3 game if my wife would ever let me play it. The only game my wife likes better is God of War III, but it's a close call. She sighs and tells me that Eddie Riggs is almost as sexy as Kratos.

I'm not a gamer, per se, so I'm not really qualified to comment on the particulars of the game. This was a gift for my husband, who was itching to get the full version after trying the demo. Suffice to say, the man is nuts for it. He LOVES it! He's even said it may be the best game he's ever played (as in, his "most favorite"; he may have played others that were technically better but, then, what do I know?).What's cool is that his non-gaming wife can sit in the same room while he plays it for hours on end. I love Jack Black so it's fun to watch and hear this character he's created. I'm also a fan of the music in the game's soundtrack. There's a good variety of rock to listen to, from hard to almost-hardest. Finally, I love that there's a lot of humor interjected into the story. I crack up over the gang of big guys who follow Jack's character around, constantly air-banging their heads! (I used to know some people who were alarmingly similar, which makes it all the funnier.)I would recommend it based on watching hubby have nonstop fun, as well as for having a storyline and style that makes it entertaining for onlookers. I'm also pleased to say that I had a flawless experience with the shipping; this was the first time I ever used 1-day ("overnight?") delivery and it arrived on time without a hitch.