Riggs commands troops with the D-pad and a click of the right stick gives him the ability to fly, which allows for a quick sweep of the battlefield to see how best to deploy his army (which incidentally is named Ironheade).
As was mentioned earlier, everything in Brütal Legend is inspired by the look and feel of heavy metal and this of course extends to the units in Eddie Riggs' army foot-soldiers are headbangers, mounted troops are bikers and tanks are harpoon-hurling hotrods. The merch-booth harvests fans (or resources) and feeds them back into the stage – they can then be used to build different units. Players then use a riff to build a 'merch-booth' over 'fan-vents' which are dotted around the battlefield. Battles begin with the construction of a stage. These are all played from a third-person perspective so players find themselves mixing up hack and slash combat with commanding troops and managing resources. The story mode boasts some variety in mission type (escorting troops, boss battles and the odd herding mission) but its pivotal events mainly take the form of real-time strategy (RTS) battles.
While it wouldn't be true to say that Brütal Legend offers nothing to players who aren't or have never been fans of heavy metal, those who have or still do consider themselves headbangers will get far more out of this game. The story feels epic enough to have been cribbed from a Black Sabbath tribute album and the well-written dialogue is peppered with as many heavy metal references as it is hilarious punchlines. Jack Black provides the voice for the hero, Eddie Riggs, and heavy metal icons such as Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford, Lemmy from Motorhead and Judas Priest's Rob Halford all have cameo roles. The heroes recall vintage metal icons such as Man O War and Judas Priest, while the villains seem completely diabolical or are cut from the cloth of hair-metal or goth-emo aesthetics. The open environment of the Age Of Metal is a world that looks like an amalgamation of every single heavy metal album cover from the 1980s come to life, and it's populated entirely by heavy metal archetypes across a range of subgenres. Heavy metal informs every single element of Brütal Legend from its visuals to its characters to its soundtrack to even a large portion of the game's humour. The heavy metal aesthetic is a good place to begin any review for Brütal Legend because the game itself could easily be described as Tim Schafer's love letter to the devil's music.
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