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Heavy metal comes to thunderous life in the new video game Brütal Legend.For inspiration, game designer Tim Schafer called upon his lifelong love of headbanging, and he made a rock 'n' roll roadie, Eddie Riggs, his main character.
To provide Eddie's voice, he turned to actor Jack Black. "We were thinking about who the character is and about (Black's 2003 film) School of Rock and (his band) Tenacious D," Schafer says. "He lives and breathes rock music and heavy metal."
Schafer "was a metalhead in his youth just like I was," Black says. "When you play the game, you get all of those fine details and the little nuances and subtleties of the metal lore."
Schafer's team at Double Fine Productions conjured an ancient world based on heavy-metal imagery. Demonic villains ripped from the cover of a Black Sabbath LP inhabit an airbrushed Meat Loaf album art landscape. Enslaved humans are literally "headbangers," pounding their craniums in mines.
Out today for Xbox 360 and PS3 (rated M for ages 17-up, $60) Brütal Legend is not just about the music, although the game has more than 100 songs by artists from Anthrax to Wrath of Killenstein. Heavy-metal royalty such as Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead and Lita Ford provide character voices; Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show) plays the villain, Emperor Doviculus.
Schafer's previous games, including Secret of Monkey Island and Psychonauts, "stand as some of the funniest work in the industry," says Geoff Keighley of Spike's GameTrailers TV. "He finally nails it with Brütal Legend. ... He's got Jack Black, a big push from (publisher) Electronic Arts, and a great computer-generated story that looks as good as a DreamWorks animated movie."
"You are in a world of heavy metal," Black says. It "lets you do battle and slay demons and live out some of your fantasies."
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