Brütal Legend

Brütal Legend is an action-adventure with open-world exploration, driving and combat that combines melee and ranged fighting with real-time strategy. You play as Eddie Riggs, a roadie voiced by Jack Black, in a heavy-metal world of imitation cover bands, demons seeking to enslave humanity and music from across the eras of metal. The PC version also includes the Hammer of Infinite Fate and Tears of the Hextadon multiplayer map packs.

Story and world

Eddie sets out on a tour of destruction with an axe, a guitar and the minions he commands. The world features chrome, leather, rocker babes, fire-breathing beasts, mountains made of guitar amps and an art style inspired by iconic metal album covers.

You can walk, drive or fly across the fully streaming open world. Metal musicians Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford and Lita Ford appear in cameos, alongside other metal performers. Jack Black voices Eddie, and the soundtrack spans metal subgenres from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, with 108 tracks by 75 bands.

Combat and command

You fight with a double-sided broadaxe and a guitar that can create pyrotechnics and slay demons. Guitar solos can summon objects, strengthen your teammates or hinder opponents. Combat also draws on real-time strategy: you command legions of metalheads and send troops into battle, progressing from roadie to rock god.

Multiplayer

Online 4v4 Skirmish matches combine action combat with strategic unit control. You lead one of the game's factions and direct its army in a Battle of the Bands where survival is the prize.