Jack Black films his first YouTube let's play—and it's of a game that he starred in

Since actor Jack Black launched a gaming YouTube channel in December he's uploaded 11 videos and amassed nearly 4 million subscribers. Most of the videos are fast-moving vlogs about arcade machines, but now he's released his first "let's play", and it's of heavy metal hack-and-slasher Brutal Legend, a game in which he starred.

Black was the voice of main character Eddie Riggs, and it's fun to watch him provide some fresh narration as he plays. He says it's like being in a "time warp", and he still remembers a lot of the lines, delivering them in time with Riggs.

The video, above, is more than just gameplay: it features an intro from fellow YouTuber Ricky Berwick as well as Black opening YouTuber's subscriber milestone awards, which I can only assume will keep rolling in.

It's not a "let's play" in the traditional sense, and Black doesn't indicate that he'll return to Brutal Legend anytime soon. It's likely a template for his videos going forward—short snippets of games broken up by Jack Black being Jack Black, which is fine by me.

You can check out all of his videos here.

Samuel is a freelance journalist and editor who first wrote for PC Gamer nearly a decade ago. Since then he's had stints as a VR specialist, mouse reviewer, and previewer of promising indie games, and is now regularly writing about Fortnite. What he loves most is longer form, interview-led reporting, whether that's Ken Levine on the one phone call that saved his studio, Tim Schafer on a milkman joke that inspired Psychonauts' best level, or historians on what Anno 1800 gets wrong about colonialism. He's based in London.