| 📰 Title: | Brütal Legend | 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: | Game |
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| 🗃️ Genre: | Adventure & Action | 👁️ Visual: | 3D |
| 🏷️ Category: | Adventure & Action ➤ B&F ➤ Beat 'em up ➤ Misc. | 🏝️ Perspective: | Third person |
| 🔖 Tags: | Beat 'em up; Action RPG; Hack and Slash; Strategy; Fantasy; Open World; Funny; Gothic; Difficult | ⏱️ Pacing: | Real Time |
| 🐣️ Approx. start: | 👫️ Played: | Single & Multi | |
| 🐓️ Latest: | 🚦 Status: | 04. Released (status) | |
| 📍️ Version: | Latest: - | ❤️ Like it: | 9. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License type: | 💰 Commercial | 🎀️ Quality: | 7. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License: | Commercial | ✨️ (temporary): | |
| 🐛️ Created: | 2013-06-24 | 🐜️ Updated: | 2024-10-10 |
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| 👫️ Contrib.: | goupildb & Louis | 🦺️ Work in progress: | |
| 🎰️ ID: | 13666 |
| 📜️[en]: | A game combining elements of a third person beat 'em all with those of an open-world single-player/multi-player (1 vs. 1, up to 4 vs. 4) real-time tactical strategy game. The player is Eddie Riggs, who, after a concert scene accident in which his blood lands on an amulet, finds himself transported to a fantasy world of heavy metal. He then meets Ophelia, for whom he feels an attraction and whom he helps to fight the forces of Doviculus, thanks to his broad axe ("The Separator"), his guitar ("Clementine" - which has the power to cast magic spells, but heats up when fired upon), and his hot rod ("The Druid Plow"). | 📜️[fr]: | Un jeu combinant des éléments de beat them all en vision objective avec ceux d'un jeu de stratégie tactique temps réel solo/multi en équipes (1 vs 1, jusqu'à 4 vs 4) en monde ouvert. Le joueur est Eddie Riggs qui, après un accident de scène de concert où son sang atterrit sur une amulette, se retrouve transporté dans un monde fantastique de heavy metal. Il rencontre alors Ophélie pour laquelle il ressent une attirance et qu'il va aider à combattre les forces de Doviculus, grâce à sa hache large ("The Separator"), à sa guitare ("Clementine" - qui a le pouvoir de lancer des sorts magiques, mais qui chauffe avec les tirs), et son hot rod ("The Druid Plow"). |
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🕹️ Title: Brütal Legend
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📚️ Brütal Legend is a game combining elements of a third person beat 'em all with those of an open-world single-player/multi-player (1 vs. 1, up to 4 vs. 4) real-time tactical strategy game. The player is Eddie Riggs, who, after a concert scene accident in which his blood lands on an amulet, finds himself transported to a fantasy world of heavy metal. He then meets Ophelia, for whom he feels an attraction and whom he helps to fight the forces of Doviculus, thanks to his broad axe ("The Separator"), his guitar ("Clementine" - which has the power to cast magic spells, but heats up when fired upon), and his hot rod ("The Druid Plow").
📜️ "A game combining elements of objective-view beat 'em all with those of a real-time tactical strategy game" 📜️
🌍️ Wikipedia:
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure game with real-time strategy game elements created by Double Fine Productions and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game was released during October 2009 in North America and Europe. Though Brütal Legend was originally to be published by Vivendi Games prior to its merger with Activision, Activision dropped the game from its portfolio after the merger. It was later picked up by Electronic Arts, though Activision and Double Fine brought counter-lawsuits against each other over publishing issues. The issues were settled out of court. Later, Double Fine announced a port of the game for Microsoft Windows via Steam, which was released in February 2013. Mac OS X and Linux versions of the game were made available as part of the Humble Bundle in May 2013.
Tim Schafer, the game's creative director, was inspired to create the game by his own past musical experiences. The game features the character of Eddie Riggs, voiced by and modeled after Jack Black, a roadie who is transported to a fantasy world inspired by the artwork of heavy metal album covers. Eddie becomes the world's savior, leading the down-trodden humans against a range of supernatural overlords using a battle axe, his Flying V guitar that can tap into the magical powers of the world, and a customizable hot rod.
The game, a hybrid of the action-adventure and real-time strategy genres, includes Stage Battles in both the single-player and multiplayer mode, where the player must command troops to defeat their foes while defending their own stage. In addition to Black, the game features voices of heavy metal musicians including Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford and other celebrities such as Tim Curry, as well as more than one hundred metal songs selected by Schafer for inclusion in the game.
Brütal Legend was generally well received by game reviewers, praising Schafer's vision and writing of the heavy metal-inspired world, and the performances of the voice cast, particularly Black and Osbourne. Some felt that the hybrid gameplay of action and real-time strategy games did not mix well, however, blaming console control limitations and missing features normally found in games of either genre.
Gameplay
Brütal Legend is a third person action/adventure game incorporating real time strategy elements. The game uses an open world that Tim Schafer has described as being approximately 40 square miles (100 km2) in area. The player controls the protagonist Eddie Riggs (voiced by Jack Black), a roadie who one day finds himself transported into a fantasy heavy metal world. Eddie acquires three tools that are used for combat and transportation: a broad axe called "The Separator", his Flying V guitar "Clementine" from his own world which has the ability to cast magic spells in the heavy metal world, and a hot rod that Eddie builds called "The Druid Plow", a.k.a. "The Deuce". Launching metal attacks from Clementine is performed by playing a minigame akin to the note-matching aspect of Guitar Hero or Rock Band over a brief guitar riff; however, Eddie cannot use the metal generated by Clementine constantly, as prolonged usage of the guitar will result in it turning red hot, and the player will have to wait for a cool-off period before using the guitar's power again. The player can spend in-game currency called "Fire Tributes", earned from completing missions, at the Motor Forge, to gain new abilities and upgrades for each tool. These tools can be used in combination with each other to take out Eddie's foes; for example, the player can use his guitar Clementine to create pyrotechnics to launch a foe into the air and follow up by attack it with the Separator ax. In a case of a specific boss fight, the player must use the Deuce hot rod to lure the boss to a spiked gate held up by counterweights, and then play the "Earthshaker" move on Clementine to destroy the weights and sever the creature's head.
Within the open world, the player can use a map and the Deuce's turn signals to guide them towards either story-advancing missions or side missions. Side missions include hot-rod races against a demon, defending Eddie's allies from a pending attack, or helping a cannon operator spot his targets. There are about 23 main missions in the story with 30 side missions that the player can optionally take. The player can also explore the game's world to find statues bound in leather or chains that can be freed to gain a health boost for Eddie or to reveal part of the game's backstory, and can look through special telescopes at vistas or complete certain jumps to earn additional Fire Tributes. The player can also find monuments they can raise that unlock an additional heavy metal song from the game's soundtrack that can be played on the Deuce's radio, "The Mouth of Metal"; the player can further customize its set list with songs they have been rewarded with or have collected.
Screenshot showing a giant concert stage dominating the background, accented by gothic elements such as towering spires; the foreground shows several forces converging on the stage, including a flying winged creature, two people mounted on bear-like creatures, a giant brute, and several other ground forces.
The single-player and multiplayer modes of Brütal Legend feature Stage Battles where players command armies to defend their concert stage while attacking others' stages.
Several main story missions of the game are Stage Battles based on real time strategy elements. The player, while still in control of Eddie, is required to defend a giant stage where new allies will spawn, holding out until a specific objective is completed. The player creates an army for attacks by building merchandise booths on "fan geysers" through Clementine's magic. Once enough fans are collected, the player can summon different allies, each consuming a specific number of fans, or upgrade their stage to allow them to produce more powerful allies. A character known as Mangus acts as the "sound guy" to help in the construction of these units and stage upgrades, and also warns the player of enemy attacks. Once the player has gathered their army, they can then seek out and attack their opponents. Eddie is able to control the entire army to follow, attack, or defend a point, and can use specialized squads of specific units to perform certain tasks, such as having a group of headbangers use their headbanging to destroy statues. The player can also use Eddie directly in combat during this battles. Ultimately, Eddie transforms into a winged demon who can fly above the battlefields to issue orders or lay out attacks. Other spells in Eddie's arsenal can help control the performance of his armies, such as temporarily boosting their attack skills or creating a rally flag which troops will gather at. Each of the different units, including special allies that Eddie meets in the game, has a special co-op move they can perform with Eddie; for example, Eddie's first ally, Ophelia, can be tossed at foes by Eddie in the style of the Fastball Special. These co-op moves are also available outside of Stage Battle missions.
The game has a multiplayer mode, described by Schafer as "your typical head-to-head, battle of the bands scenario. But with axes."The multiplayer modes are team-based and play in the same manner as the single-player Stage Battles, with team sizes from one-versus-one to four-versus-four. Each team selects from one of three factions which affect what resources and troops they can summon, and are tasked with defending their stage from attack by the other team. The three factions available are Ironheade, mostly human-based troops led by Eddie Riggs; The Drowning Doom, with more Goth/Black Metal creatures led by Ophelia; and The Tainted Coil, evil creatures controlled by Doviculus. Each player controls a single main avatar who has the same abilities as in the main game for combat and magic spells and can also fly about the map, but also is in control of troops that they may summon from the team's shared resources—fans as generated by fan geysers across the map. Different types of troops are available, costing various amounts of fans to summon, with the potential to upgrade to improved units through different routes. The number and types of troops that can be summoned is limited by a cap to prevent either team from becoming too overpowered. All of the troops can be engaged by the player to initiate various "Double Team" moves as with the single player game. The game can also be played by a single player with computer-controller opponents at one of five difficulty levels.
Plot
During a gig for Kabbage Boy, Eddie is crushed by falling scenery while trying to save a member of the band; his blood lands on his belt buckle, in reality an amulet for Ormagöden. The stage is transformed into Ormagöden, who kills the band and takes the unconscious Eddie to the heavy metal world. Awaking in the Temple of Ormagöden, Eddie meets with Ophelia while fighting Doviculus' forces, developing a crush on her. They discover writings left by the Titans that Eddie is able to comprehend, and build a hot-rod, the "Deuce", that they use to escape the Temple and travel to Bladehenge, the base for the small human resistance force led by Lars and Lita. When they meet Eddie and learn he can understand the Titans' messages, they see him as a prophetical "Chosen One", though unsure if he will be the savior or destroyer of the world. Ophelia also becomes concerned when Eddie, in the heat of battle, transforms into a winged creature, an effect Eddie decides to use to his advantage at the time.
Eddie helps Lars, Lita, and Ophelia create an army, named "Ironheade" to fight against General Lionwhyte. They successfully raid Lionwhyte's "Pleasure Tower" and defeat him. However, as they celebrate, Doviculus arrives, sending the group into hiding. Doviculus is aware of the presence of his spy "Succoria" by the smell of her blood as it was at the Temple; Eddie and his allies come to believe Ophelia is Doviculus' spy. Lars leaves his hiding spot to face Doviculus, but is quickly killed. As Doviculus causes the tower to tear itself apart, Ironheade escapes into the nearby mountains; Eddie is forced to leave with Lita leaving Ophelia behind despite their shared love. Heartbroken, Ophelia drowns herself in the Sea of Black Tears, and is transformed into the leader of the goth "Drowning Doom". After three months, she leads an attack on Ironheade's mountain camp. Though Ironheade defeats the assault, Eddie determines they must destroy the Sea to end her threat. As they travel through exotic lands and finding more allies out of the pyromanical Fire Barons and the amazonian Zaulia tribe, they come across evidence of Eddie's father, the hero known as Riggnarok in this time. It tells that Riggnarok traveled to the future to attempt to learn the secrets of the Titans to bring back to the past in the humans' ongoing fight against the demons, but never returned.
With their new allies, Ironheade manages to push the Drowning Doom back towards the Sea of Black Tears; defeated, Ophelia denies Eddie's belief that she is Doviculus' spy, again claiming that Eddie's the traitor. As they argue, Doviculus arrives and confirms that Succoria is not Ophelia, but Eddie's mother. In the past, Succoria, an even more vicious demon empress, also sought the Titans' secrets in the future, but discovering that humankind eventually prevailed, fell into despair. Riggnarok, who had followed Succoria through time to assassinate her, took pity on her in her despair, and the two fell in love and bore Eddie. Now in the past, Eddie's demon nature has borne out, and also has inadvertently revealed the Titans' secrets to Doviculus as well, and has allowed him to create a powerful army to overrun the humans. Having no more use for Ophelia, Doviculus rips out her heart, taking her powers alongside his own and causing Ophelia to dissipate. While Ironheade battles Doviculus' forces, Eddie engages Doviculus in a one-on-one confrontation, which ends with the demon emperor's decapitation. As Eddie escapes the Sea, he recovers Ophelia's heart from Doviculus, containing his mother's necklace he gave her when they first met, and then proceeds to rescue the real Ophelia from the ocean floor. Ashore, they rekindle their love as Ironheade celebrates their victory over Doviculus and the Tainted Coil. Back at Bladehenge, a statue to Lars is erected, while Lita continues to lead the troops against the remaining demons. Eddie insists on maintaining his "roadie" presence, staying behind the scenes and making others look good. After he promises he is not leaving to his assembled friends, Eddie takes off to complete a few errands, with Ophelia watching as he drives off into the sunset, shedding a single black tear.
Un jeu combinant des éléments de beat them all en vision objective avec ceux d'un jeu de stratégie tactique temps réel, par le studio Double Fine Productions, portage Linux par Edward Rudd.
Il utilise le moteur Buddha (moteur 3D du même studio).
Brütal Legend combine des éléments de beat them all en vision objective avec ceux d'un jeu de stratégie tactique temps réel solo/multi en équipes (1 vs 1, jusqu'à 4 vs 4) en monde ouvert. Le joueur est Eddie Riggs qui, après un accident de scène de concert où son sang atterrit sur une amulette, se retrouve transporté dans un monde fantastique de heavy metal. Il rencontre alors Ophélie pour laquelle il ressent une attirance et qu'il va aider à combattre les forces de Doviculus, grâce à sa hache large ("The Separator"), à sa guitare ("Clementine" - qui a le pouvoir de lancer des sorts magiques, mais qui chauffe avec les tirs), et son hot rod ("The Druid Plow").
🌍️ Wikipedia:
Brütal Legend est un jeu vidéo édité par Electronic Arts, développé par Double Fine Productions. Tim Schafer a dirigé le développement de ce jeu. C'est un beat them all dans lequel le héros est un roadie (technicien qui monte les scènes de concert) qui est téléporté dans l'univers du Heavy Metal. Il y rencontre certains grands noms du metal comme Rob Halford, Lemmy Kilmister ou encore Ozzy Osbourne.
Système de jeu : Le jeu contient deux types de gameplay qui s'alternent tout au long du jeu. Dans un premier temps, le joueur contrôle Eddie et doit explorer le monde du metal a pied ou au volant de la Destroymobile (sa voiture), pour rechercher certains objets à collectionner, ou accomplir certains objectif précis. Dans cette phase, le jeu s'apparente à un jeu d'aventure et d'exploration avec une composante beat'em all. À certain points, le joueur sera aussi amené à diriger des batailles de scènes. Dans ces phases, deux armées s'affrontent sur un champ de bataille, et deux scènes apparaissent à chaque bout du champ de bataille. Le joueur doit alors construire des stands pour recolter l'énergie des fans, qui lui permet de faire venir plus d'alliés sur le champ de bataille. Il donne ensuite des ordres à ses alliés et peut gagner la bataille en détruisant la scène de l'adversaire. Durant ces phases, le jeu s'apparente à un jeu de stratégie temps réel, même si le joueur continue à contrôler Eddie et peut se joindre à la bataille en plus de donner des ordres.