Brütal Legend   Brütal Legend Review  Sometimes Even An Umlaut
Isn't Enough  Click here for Brütal Legend Art Gallery  HIGH The
world is metal.  LOW Almost everything else isn't.   It's an
unfortunate reality that games are often accused of delivering
"style over substance." The basic notion is that developers coat
a mediocre game with some sort of stylistic hook that keeps the
player interested in spite of themselves, and is nothing new.
However, given the big name behind it, one would expect Brütal
Legend not to fall into this category. One would be wrong.  From
the normally-amazing imagination of Tim Schafer—of Psychonauts
and Grim Fandango fame, with an odd 10-year gap in the
middle—comes Brütal Legend In it, you play as Eddie Riggs, a
roadie with a crappy heavy metal band. Through a freak accident
involving getting crushed and his belt, Eddie is whisked off to
a land carved out of the ideals of heavy metal, to free the
humans from enslavement by an evil emperor, restoring the former
Rock Gods to their fo