10 Video Games That Completely Switched Genre Halfway Through

10. Brutal Legend

The marketing for 2009's Brutal Legend painted it strictly as an action-adventure game in which a roadie - voiced by and modeled after Jack Black - is transported to a fantasy world inspired by heavy metal album artwork.

While the game's first few hours are a solid if unremarkable third-person sandbox action game, developer Double Fine progressively added in more and more real-time strategy elements until, by the mid-point, the army-commanding RTS aspect almost overcomes the more conventional and expected action fare.

Ultimately Brutal Legend settles to become an intriguing if slightly awkward hybrid of third-person action and RTS genres, which bewildered those who were drawn to the marketing's focus on heavy metal-infused action and had little interest in playing an RTS. It is a rather niche genre, after all.

The RTS injection remains relatively divisive today even with those who love the genre, but the bizarre mash-up of game types has nevertheless allowed it to live on as a cult curio over a decade later.