Brutal Legend: an issue

[Iwata]

Alright, first of all, I'm a Tim Schaeffer fan. Ever since his days at Lucasarts I've enjoyed his unique take on games, so when he combined that with Jack Black and the best age of metal in history, I got excited about Brutal Legend.

I bought the game and I had a blast with it, but a common criticism has me a bit puzzled: namely, that the game has RTS portions.

Now, I play a lot of RTS games. As in, a hell of a lot. It's pretty much all I still play on the PC, and while Brutal Legend admittedly has RTS elements, in that you can summon units, I'd hardly say it plays as one. In fact, I'd say that the little RTS element in the game serves to complement the hack-&-slash portion, in that you summon more units, and lead from the front in massive bloodfests. I don't think I ever issued an order to a single unit in the entire game.

Or am I playing it wrong?

 

[Nevyrmoore]

You're playing it wrong. The hack-&-slash portion complements the RTS part. It is an RTS in hack-&-slash clothing.

 

[Iwata]

I just played the demo last night. Is the girl always that hot? I have to play it now, with all that cool music and voice-acting, even though it's not my type of game. Is the story long by any chance?

The game is open-world, so it can be as short or as long as you make it.

That said, I found that it ends prematurely. If you follow the story alone, you'll easily finish it in under 6 hours. But you won't. There's a lot to do in the game.

 

[rokkolpo]

I never saw the game as an RTS.
for me it was more like create a LOT of normal guys and swamp them on the enemy.

Severely lacking Strategy.

it wasn't that much hack and slash either.
since you were hardly strong enough to take out a regular mob gang without help.

most of the time i was riding around listening to metal ^_^ worked for me.

 

[ClockWork]

I just played the demo last night. Is the girl always that hot? I have to play it now, with all that cool music and voice-acting, even though it's not my type of game. Is the story long by any chance?

I was a bit surprised when it ended that it did end where it did, but then I didn't do any side missions I, like Iwata said, followed the story alone.And yes the girl is always that hot if not hotter.

 

[Paulie92]

I just played the demo last night. Is the girl always that hot? I have to play it now, with all that cool music and voice-acting, even though it's not my type of game. Is the story long by any chance?

The game is open-world, so it can be as short or as long as you make it.

That said, I found that it ends prematurely. If you follow the story alone, you'll easily finish it in under 6 hours. But you won't. There's a lot to do in the game.

Yeah I was expecting another 2 or 3 hours with a whole new portion of world but then it just kinda ended. I didn't really find it RTS that much in that there was no real stratergy it was all just quantity. My problem was Eddie did absolutely no damage no matter what I did and getting all collectables only gives him more health etc. That and the game had Motley Crue songs.... :| I was not amused

 

[Cmd. Shepard]

Brutal Legend has to be one of my favourite games ever, being both a die hard game fan, metal fan, Jack Black fan, and Tim Schaffer fan.

As pertaining to your RTS question, I'd say that summoning different units and telling them where to go and using your guitar solo's to give the units a boost with certain things is very RTS. At the same time, you have direct control over Eddie and can slash away with your axe and guitar.....so, it's not a TRUE RTS, but has quite a few components.