Le 2009-10-07 19:39, Wild_Cat a écrit :

J'en profite pour dire que s'il y en a parmi vous qui n'y connaissent pas grand-chose en métal et à qui la démo de Brütal Legend a donné envie de découvrir ce genre musical (ou plutôt sur cet ensemble de sous-genres musicaux, parce que c'est très varié), n'hésitez pas à passer faire un tour sur le topic musique!

On a de la bière, des gens qui adorent faire partager leur passion, de la bière, des recommandations pour tous les âges et goûts musicaux pré-existants, de la bière, une énorme discothèque, de la bière, des reprises de jeux vidéo, de la bière, des comptes last.fm... Oh, et on a de la bière, aussi.


[ Ce Message a été édité par: Wild_Cat le 2009-10-07 19:39 ]

Brutal Legend restricts itself to just two separate mechanics - those of the RTS and something best described as an adventurous brawler - and it merges the two quite slickly.
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It's a game of two halves, in other words, and the first could be called Zelda in Leather.
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Simple to get to grips with, the combat's rather satisfying, your growing arsenal of attacks split between a range of melee axe smashes and a suite of guitar-triggered magic assaults, all of which resemble comically lame stage pyros.
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Threaded inside the main narrative - and becoming an increasingly regular occurrence as the game continues - is a surprisingly elaborate RTS: the characters you meet en route double as traditional unit types, and the open world you explore on foot or behind the wheel of the Deuce is built to pull back into a smart arena of capture spots and choke-points. It's all rather elegant; as the game's dual nature starts to take shape, it's fascinating to watch how Double Fine gets the videogame equivalent of overtime out of the same small handful of elements.
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Besides, the world itself is a constant unfolding delight, a homage to heavy metal's air-brushed icons that manages to be both mocking and reverent.
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It's probably Brutal Legend's characters that win out. Since the days when he provided dialogue options for Guybrush Threepwood, Schafer's secret skill has been to people his games with lovable oddballs who quickly start to feel like friends, creating bonds strong enough to ensure you forgive some of the ropier moments. In this case, Schafer, Double Fine, and Black haven't just created a story about roadies: they've become them, scuttling about energetically, heads down and minds focused, as they pull a handful of simple props together in order to put on an amazing show.

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Brutal Legend isn't a very smooth game, which is surprising considering the low-rent graphics engine. It seems like it was built so it could be scaled down to the Playstation 2. It suffers from bad frame rates, details magically popping into the near distance, and lots of blunt "you can't go here!" level design. A lot of the gameplay is similarly clumsy or basic. The fighting is standard-issue. The driving is rudimentary. You have to play a rather complicated real time strategy game at certain points in the story, which is going to give some people fits. At times, Brutal Legend is flat-out bad in terms of gameplay.

But that would be a pretty short-sighted way to evaluate what developer Double Fine has created. Regardless of how it holds up as a game, Brutal Legend is a staggeringly imaginative, sincerely heartfelt, joyously child-like place to go, full of innocence and wonder and awesome cussing and cool characters and hidden jokes and sweet places to drive your bitchin' car and heroes to fight alongside and villains to vanquish and secret destinies to discover. It is like being fourteen all over again, and I'll take that over a slickly done game any day...