Schafer Says Activision Wanted Brutal Legend To Be A Country Music Game

Brutal Legend 'He Is a Roadie' trailer HD Guitar Hero is often given credit for defining a genre, but not many people know that it may have saved a game as well. By making rock and metal big business for video games, it not ensured that the upcoming Brutal Legend would be picked up by a publisher, but it would stay in its original genre. "When we were first pitching Brutal Legend, it was before the first Guitar Hero game was announced and we were like, 'There's this game in a heavy metal world', [and they said], 'We like the game, but could we change it to be a hip-hop game, or maybe country music?" Schafer told Eurogamer . (link)