Brutal Legend Officially Announced; Updated: Early Screenshots, Concept Artwork

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Update: The first screenshots and concept artwork for Brutal Legend have been released. Double Fine's official site also released a suitably metal photograph (inset) of designer Tim Schafer (pictured right) and Motorhead bassist Lemmy, whose voice is featured in the game.

"The moral of the story is that Brutal Legend is going to be the best f***ing game you have ever played," creator Tim Schafer wrote on the site's news page. "Please be patient, though. It's going to take us a little while to gather up every single piece of awesome there is in the world and put it in this game."

Original Story: Though the gaming populace has already heard the word and seen the trailer, publisher Sierra and developer Double Fine have officially unveiled Brutal Legend (PS3, X360).

According to the press release, the latest from Full Throttle (PC) and Psychonauts (PC, PS2, Xbox) creator Tim Schafer follows "the most righteous and epic fable of massive music, apocalyptic war, and Brutal action... ever." Eddie Riggs, who is based on and voiced by comedy rocker Jack Black, headlines the game's cast, using his mighty axe to slice demons in two and commandeering rocking hot rods from time to time.

"Holy crap!" said Schafer, "I have been dreaming about this day for fifteen years. And now it is finally here. We've gathered small clues over the years about the Age of Metal, in songs, t-shirts, and album covers. But now we have uncovered the metal mother lode, the full legend of what actually happened in that loud and heavy era, and we are the lucky ones who get to tell the tale."

Brutal Legend is slated for a 2008 release on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. No PC version has been announced at this time, a curious exclusion given Schafer's predilection towards the platform that has hosted all of his past games.

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Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

From The Chatty
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    October 19, 2007 8:20 AM

    You know there was one time where having a Schafer game with Sierra's name on it would have been equalled by Sonic being in Smash Bros. Two rivals working together. However Sierra's nothing but a shell and I don't even recognize the names of their ever changing leaders. Worldwide president? Ugh...


    Anyway Brutal Legend looks damn good. I'll have to get the PS3 version if theres no PC one announced. My guess is that there will be one, but not on release date.

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      October 19, 2007 9:17 AM

      I think the Jack Black voice over will help it out a bit.

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      October 19, 2007 9:44 AM

      Martin Tremblay was the fellow who headed up Ubisoft when they created Splinter Cell, revamped Prince of Persia, put out Beyond Good & Evil...pretty good exec track record if you ask me.

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      October 19, 2007 12:03 PM

      Martin Tremblay is actually fairly well known in the industry. I don't know why you'd expect yourself to know the names of publishing executives unless you follow that scene, but if you do follow it you're likely to know this one.

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        October 19, 2007 12:38 PM

        I don't follow it, thats why it's depressing. Sierra Online will NEVER be a publisher to me, VUgames is. They just ride that name like a dead corpse. I really wish they just lay it to rest already, call themselves VUgames and be done with it.

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          October 19, 2007 12:47 PM

          Fair enough, but I don't understand your point about not knowing you Tremblay is

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            October 19, 2007 1:18 PM

            I'm being emo about how Sierra's name is nothing but a front for their ever-changing leaders, rather than the stronghold of awesome that it was in the 90's under Ken Williams. Don't mind me.

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              October 19, 2007 3:05 PM

              I understand. I knew more about Ken William's smile back in the day than I do about Tremblay (old InterAction readers will know what I'm talking about). Ken was the alternate face of Sierra besides the mountain. Back then Sierra was much smaller too and had a closer knit community, it was almost like a family.

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                October 19, 2007 5:18 PM

                well what did you expect when big business got into video games?

                its all about branding, marketing and whoring video game review websites and magazines nowadays, real pukerrific

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                  October 19, 2007 6:27 PM

                  Yeah, you really have to hate it when a medium moves past the infancy phase, gets a little stability and really draws the attention of some of our most creative adn brilliiant people.

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