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Jack Black – Brutal Legend. Not only Keanu Reeves – movie stars in games

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Genre: action-adventure

Developer: Double Fine Productions Inc.

Platforms: PC, PS3, X360

You can wear all the studded bracelets your arm can accommodate, and all the hardcore t-shirts with band names at the same time, but you will never be as metal as Brutal Legend, a gaming tribute to heavy music. The story? Banal, you need to save the world. But the way it's told! In the spirit of the most over-the-top metal songs about heroism, dragons and axes. The vast was a real R'n'R Hall of Fame: Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister and Rob Hallford are just a few names to begin with. They give their voices and silhouettes in a cartoonish, but essentially faithful form.

...And then, there's the face of the project. The most buffed version of Jack Black (Tenacious D) you will ever see. And it's no surprise that this particular actor and musician was chosen as the main character of the game. Tim Schafer knew what he was doing. He chose to the guy who found The Pick of Destiny, went to Blizzcon when it was still cool, and finally defeated the Devil himself with sheer music. Yeah, there's no beating this guy.

Jack Black plays Eddie Riggs, a technician serving heavy metal concerts. An otherwise ordinary guy with passion. Only that his belt buckle is possessed. When a few drops of blood fall upon the cursed hunk of metal, a demmon is freed, capturing Riggs to a land, where the gods of metal used to dwell. In their absence, the dimension had become a living hell, and only one divine entity can make order there. Using music and a big-ass axe. So, Eddie sets out to forge his legend. This is one of Jack Black's most graceful incarnations.

Peter Stormare – Untill Dawn

Genre: Horror/adventure, action

Developer: Supermassive Games

Platforms: PS4

Some actors just can't escape their image. Whatever they do, we remember them from a single role. It's like the fate of those people was written in concrete. Some struggle with it, like Matthew McConaughey, others fully embrace it. Peter Stormare chose the second option.

No matter if it's a role of a degenerate (Last Action Hero) or a thug (John Wick 2), Stormare is always up for the challenge, anxious to portray a fleshed-out supporting character.His character – The Pysycho – in Until Dawn is a psychiatrist who conducted therapy sessions of one of the game's antagonists. He appeared a rather unstable character for a specialist in suicide thoughts, but the game telegraphed a turn of events of some sort.

Either way -- this is another characteristic role from Stormare, in this case built with more nuance and complexity.

Hubert Sosnowski

Hubert Sosnowski

He joined GRYOnline.pl in 2017, as an author of texts about games and movies. Learned how to write articles while working for the Dzika Banda portal. His texts were published on kawerna.pl, film.onet.pl, zwierciadlo.pl, and in the Polish Playboy. Has published stories in the monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror magazine, as well as in the first volume of the Antologii Wolsung. Lives for "middle cinema" and meaty entertainment, but he won't despise any experiment or Fast and Furious. In games, looks for a good story. Loves Baldur's Gate 2, but when he sees Unreal Tournament, Doom, or a good race game, the inner child wakes up. In love with sheds and thrash metal. Since 2012, has been playing and creating live action role-playing, both within the framework of the Bialystok Larp Club Zywia, and commercial ventures in the style of Witcher School.

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