Imagine a heavy metal odyssey starring Jack Black as a roadie turned medieval warrior. What else could you want from a video game? You can get all this and more from Brutal Legend, one of the latest offerings from Vivendi and Double Fine Productions, for PlayStation 3.

Brutal Legend
In Brutal Legend, you are Eddie Riggs, a roadie who finds himself transported into a magical sword and sorcery world (“The Age of Metal”), where he must battle a wide variety of obstacles and challenges in order to achieve his goal of defeating the evil Dovilicus. These obstacles include the disposal of “lesser beings” like glam rockers and Emo kids. While there is traditional third person combat action, there is also a real time strategy element to the game, so be aware of what you are in for before you purchase and/or sit down to play this game.

Brutal Legend Breakdown
A combination of Grand Theft Auto meets World of Warcraft meets Civilization meets (Metal) Guitar Hero, Brutal Legend has something for everybody, and there’s surely enough to keep any player entertained for hours. If you like hard rocking and hacking and slashing, Brutal Legend is definitely for you.

As Eddie, you ride around in The Deuce, a tricked out vehicle befitting a metal god, and explore the free-roam world while you complete missions on your road to confronting Emperor Dovilicus, played by Tim Curry. Along the way you’ll get a little help from Ozzy Osbourne as the “Guardian of Metal”. There’s plenty of blood, blades and babes for you to enjoy along to a hard driving heavy metal soundtrack. The real time strategy element involves you collecting “fan energy” on stage and using it to build an army to help you achieve your goals.

Playing Brutal Legend
While the game play itself is fairly standard, the different types of missions, different styles of missions, great and compelling graphics and awesome music will more than make up for it for most players. If you like Jack Black, or Heavy Metal, or hack and slash fantasy games, you’ll probably enjoy Brutal Legend, and if you like all three, you’re going to love Brutal Legend.