You know what’s been missing from the variety of open-world games on the PC? A lack of guitars, Jack Black and metal – the music kind, not the sword kind. Coincidentally, now’s a good time to mention that Brutal Legend is now available for pre-order on Steam – with a 25% pre-order discount bringing the cost to $14.99 USD, along with a hat and a taunt for everyone’s favorite swag-based FPS game, Team Fortress 2. The Soundtrack Edition is also available with discount, so $18.74 gets you all of the above plus the game’s original soundtrack. But hey, I’m leaving out the most important information – details on those Team Fortress 2 freebies! More on those below.
- The Brütal Bouffant – This brutally heavy all-class sideburns and mullet combo was hand-sheared from the manes of Icelandic headbangers, woven with sigil-encrusted knitting needles of occult significance, and air-mailed straight out of hell.
- The Shred Alert (taunt) – Harness the unholy power of the Dark One (Yngwie Malmsteen) and crush your opponents with blistering riffs, lava-hot licks and emotion-packed power ballads!
$14.99 sounds like a good price for this game, assuming it performs as well as it did in its console iterations – but throwing in a couple of Team Fortress 2 items on top of it all? I have to admit, I’m just revved up enough about hats and taunts for that to seal the deal for me. For those of you who are interested in the pre-order, swing on by the Steam page to get it locked and loaded.
Victor Grunn has been a gamer since the days of single-button joysticks and the Atari 800XL. When not lamenting the loss of the Ultima series or setting people on fire in Team Fortress 2, he's an aspiring indie game developer and freelance writer.
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