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PullusPardus on 27 October 2009

First Brutal Legend DLC Free On PS3

The age of downloadable content dawns in Brutal Legend next month, when the Tears of the Hextadon map pack goes on sale for 400 Microsoft points - or completely free for PlayStation 3 owners.

The Tears of the Hextadon map pack consists of two new maps for Brutal Legend's completely non-real-time strategy online multiplayer mode. The Circle of Tears map is completely surrounded by water, while the Death's Fjord map takes place in an icy mountain path, where players must brave wide open spaces in order to reach the fan geysers needed to generate units.

Double fine's Tim Schafer explains the map names.

"I play Brütal Legend online every night," said Tim Schafer, President of Double Fine Productions. "And I need more maps! Circle of Tears is named after the crying of my vanquished foes on the battlefield, and Death's Fjord is obviously a tribute to my Nordic ancestors, and their love of fan geysers and… Well, actually I just thought the name was cool. See you online!"

He doesn't explain, however, why the PlayStation 3 version of the downloadable content is free from the November 5th release until November the 19th, while the Xbox 360 pack costs 400 Microsoft points as soon as it hits Xbox Live on November 3rd. Perhaps EA is trying to drum up more PS3 business? We've contacted EA about the reasoning and will update as soon as we hear back.

http://kotaku.com/5390889/first-brutal-legend-dlc-free-on-ps3

Now that Rocktober of the year of our metal Lords 2009 is coming to a close, we at Double Fine Productions and Electronic Arts are taking the time to reflect back upon a pretty eventful year. Here are just a select few of the very many Brütal Legend highlights that have lodged into my memory banks:

1. Jack Black, Tim Schafer, and Rob Halford unveiling Brütal’s gameplay for the first time to the coalition of the willing PS3 gamers at the Spike VGAs.

2. E3 – staying up until 9am the day of the show loading builds (I may have never recovered from this all year), live Twitter chats, a banner 1/3 the size of a football field, debuting our talent trailer, the coalition of the unwilling finds its leader. Pandemonium!

3. Comic-con – the infamous Brütal Legend concert featuring 3 Inches of Blood and GWAR. Picture is pretty much self-explanatory.

4. Wherein Tim Schafer tries to solve a Rubik’s Cube in the time that it takes Emily Ridgway, Double Fine’s audio director, to recite the bands and titles of the 108 songs off of the (I would say EPIC) Brütal soundtrack.

5. Launch! Marketing and PR! Dancing monkeys! Jack Black makes the ultimate sacrifice to promote the game.

Skipping forward to the future, since I know fond memory #6 will be one of my highlights of the Brütal campaign:

6. Free DLC on PSN! The Tears of the Hextadon downloadable content pack launches on November 5 for the PS3…and did I mention it is FREE for two weeks exclusively on PSN?!

We love the PS3 and we’re excited that connected PS3 gamers across the world will able to enjoy 2 multiplayer maps, The Circle of Tears and Death’s Fjord, as well as the Blade of Ormagöden axe, courtesy of the fine folks at Double Fine, Sony, and EA.

We hope to see you online for a skirmish or two or three.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/10/brutal-legend-tears-of-the-hextadon-dlc-launches-for-free-on-psn/



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Seraphic_Sixaxis on 27 October 2009

Mmm jack-black likes PS3 confirmed!



nen-suer on 27 October 2009

Nice, am planning to get the game once its cheap

Looks like i will be downloading the dlc first



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sergiodaly on 27 October 2009

all DLC should be free if comes out 1 month after the game ... DLC that cost us money should just be later content that was requested by fans... if they want to make the game bring them more money they just should make the game be worth the buy in the first place and then it will surely sell allot more... devs saying that they have DLC to come just days or even before the game launch its making fun of us in our face...

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Dgc1808 on 27 October 2009
nen-suer said:
Nice, am planning to get the game once its cheap

Looks like i will be downloading the dlc first

Same.



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PullusPardus on 27 October 2009
Dgc1808 said:
nen-suer said:
Nice, am planning to get the game once its cheap

Looks like i will be downloading the dlc first

Same.

i might do this too.



Hapimeses on 27 October 2009
PullusPardus said:
Dgc1808 said:
nen-suer said:
Nice, am planning to get the game once its cheap

Looks like i will be downloading the dlc first

Same.

i might do this too.

It's worth noting that some DLC can only be downloaded if you have a save file for the game (at least, I think this is what's required). I'm not saying this will be the case here, but it may be. I noticed this when downloading DLC to my second PS3 two months back.



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