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EA Partners Nabs Brütal Legend
After losing its publishing deal with Sierra following the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games, independent developer Double Fine has teamed with EA Partners to publish the action-adventurer Brütal Legend.
The future of the game, which has comedian Jack Black playing the main character, was in question after Activision dropped a number of games from the Sierra publishing label, which is a subsidiary of Vivendi Games.
The heavy metal-themed Brütal Legend will hit shelves in fall 2009 for PS3 and Xbox 360. "...I think it's clear that this game, like Metal itself, cannot be killed!" said Tim Schafer, president of Double Fine.
Double Fine is also responsible for the cult classic title Psychonauts.
David DeMartini, SVP of EA Partners said, "Brütal Legend is shaping up to be a creative tour de force."
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Jack Black has about as much talent as a mentally challenge abortion. So because of him alone I'm not expecting much but Tim is most excellent so hopefully it'll be ok.
Dude, you must not have heard the almighty Tenacious D.
Advice: Don't. :P
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Hahahaha.
Nice! I hope they go through with integrating a guitar controller for some of the minigames, and that it'll be Rock Band like (since EA distributes Rock Band as well).
I think there's great potential for Brutal Legend to get a nice boost in more mainstream awareness, if there's some sort of cross promotion with Rock Band.
I think Activision really was short sighted in not seeing the opportunity to link this game to Guitar Hero, seems like they feel there's only a single way to make money off a game: milk it until it's dead.
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