Get your guitar and melt their face
The story is with Jack Black voicing Eddie Riggs, a roadie who somehow was transported to a heavy metal universe back in time (though to me it seems kinda funny cause they still have beer, cars, amps, etc. almost like its in its own world). Eddie quickly realizes he has to start a revolution!
Throughout the game he recruits Headbangers who bang there heads against enemies, Girls that shoot laser guns, bass players with amped motorcyclese that heal soldiers, bouncers with comically enormous hands, other roadies that are invisible from a distance, and my personal favorite, the Fire Barons who burn their enemies alive. After a (slight spoiler alert) ******civil war amongst the humans******, Eddie has to eventually go up against an emo faction! with units that lower the attack, defense, and speed of your units! Units like, the grave diggers, the giant hair piece, the bride, the illusionist (organist), rat gut (this guy is nasty, he eats rats then he spits them out and they attack his enemies. You can see his stomach hanging out until he spits them out, then he's a skinny mofo) After defeating them, Eddie has to fight the mighty Emperor Diviculus. These are the black music, S&M type guys that use blood and gore and death to win. They have units like punishing partys, soul kissers, tick choppers, battle nuns, war fathers, hate cages. But the thing about diviculus is that his units dont spawn at the stage. They spawn directly on the battlefield through the battle nun, war father, and overblesser. Its a hiearchy system where the battle nun spawns units. The warfather spawns units and actually respawns the battle nun stronger as a superior battle nun who spawns superior units. Then the overblesser makes a superior warfather who makes superior units who also spawns a DIVINE battle nun who makes divine units! This faction is personally my favorite
Now, all that stuff above happens at things called stage battles in the story where everyone builds a stage (base) and spawns units and tries to destroy the other stage. To get resources they have things called fan geysers, and what you do is you play a tribute to them and they become your fans, which immediatly begins construction of a merch booth for them, so they can get t-shirts, hats, etc. And then you upgrade your stage for more units, and after enough upgrades you can upgrade your first 3 units to be more powerful. The Headbangers look sick when upgraded. Epic levels by the way. You play in crazy areas like the feeding area, where every once in a while the giant worm comes out in the middle section of the map. or in the dlc, theres a sick map where you play in a section that is on prims above lava, and the bridges across of them are anvils, and between 4 anvils is a titan, who randomly chooses an anvil to hit. i have lost my whole army this way. You can also play this mode with friends or with a computer in the multiplayer section. Why i like this mode so much is it applies a third person brawler with an rts style game together. Your hero is the boss. It's also easiar to control them all from one guy when in single player stage battles and multiplayer you can fly! And yes, you can play as the other two factions. Keep in mind Jack Black's guys are Ironheade (with an e on the end so you know they mean business), The emo guys are Drowning Doom, and the death-y S&M type guys are the Tainted Coil (da best!)
A lot of you might have been asking yourselves, "He didnt say a lot about the singleplayer". That's because i just realized I didn't :). Single Player is awesome. You start out with a giant axe and your guitar, which has an explosive attack, an electruction attack, and an earth shaker attack from strumming chords. It is open world after the intro mission. There are awesome missions too, like going into spider areas or defending the sick tour bus through the swamp, or racing a set of bass strings to a dying friend so the mighty bass player may heal them. There are lots of side quests to do, like ambushing enemies, mounting the death rack, helping a bouncer aim a cannon, and racing. Interesting side note, you do have a car, and what i love about this game is although i hate racing games, i love driving and racing in this specific car. It is pretty pimped out already when you start, and you can pimp it out even more (i like it with dlc stuff) with missle launchers, mine droppers, machine guns, more nitro, more armor, a sick engine, etc.
This game is also really funny all the way through, I love Jack Black for that.
You can get those and upgrades for your axe, guitar, and even more skills when you go to the Motor Forge. The Motor Forge is a shop that is only accessible via car. Guess what? inside? OZZY OSBOURNE! Or in this game, THE GUARDIAN OF METAL! And he gives you upgrades when you have pleased the metal gods with side missions, main missions, killing certain units, going off jumps into bugs, other things like that. Every Motor forge is sealed off and you raise it with the relic raiser solo.
Thats right, there are solos too. In single player you are only playing as Jack Black so you can only use his solos. One is the relic raiser, which you dont use in multiplayer. But you also have face melter, Call of the Wild, Anvil, a weather changer thats name i can't remember, Summon the Deuce (in multiplayer it doesnt have upgrades, and is pretty useless since you just fly, unless you run someone over a lot) and then everyone has their final epic solo. Jack Black's is a flaming zeppelin that comes down and explodes! The only thing i didnt like about it is it explodes over people and not actually in the ground. But its powerful and rains fiery death on them all. In multiplayer, you use solos when you upgrade your stage. In single player, you use solos when you collect them off of guitar tabs.
Which brings us to collectables. There are some crazy collectables. When you go off jumps there are bugs. There are these little dragons statues that become unsealed when lit on fire (and every 10 gives you some kind of bonus, and the bonus gets better each time) You have to collect all the motor forges. And the craziest one is these little stones held by a giant statue. NOW EVERYONE (spoiler alert on the how to get this collectable) *****use earthshaker***** And these collectables tell you the secrets about how this world came to be, and how diviculus attempted to keep these secrets from you. It tells how the Tainted Coil came to be and how the Sea of Black Tears spawned the Drowning Doom. Another note here is that it doesnt matter which one of these goes first cause they go in order no matter what. Which is awesome, and thats not just with this, its with all side missions. You arent going to do no side missions then beat the game then do the side mission that is in an area unlocked at the end of the game, and have the guy be like HEY ITS YOU AGAIN! No, this game is a firm believer in character development. The last collectable is songs
Praise the titans, there are songs! Your car comes equipped with the mouth of metal, which is like a radio where you can change your songs. There are lots of songs on here, a couple tenacios d (though i cant find "The Metal, unless its one of the last collectables).
All in all, this game is amazing. I play multiplayer all the time. I have played single player twice and after writing this, i might do it again. and i literally already did like a week ago. By the way, i put difficulty as just about right, but there is a difficulty chooser, and its fair. I think if you get good at this game you could do brutal though, cause the only remotely hard thing about brutal is the stage battles. Actual combat seems easy.
All in all, brutal legend gets a 30/10