Baracus, MacGyver and RoboCop to pull in players hopped up on testosterone-fuelled nostalgia. On top of that, Free Lives hasn’t just used the likes of B.A. If you know your action movies, you’re probably smiling by now. Players kick off the game with Rambro, but as they charge through the levels wasting enemies, they’ll rescue other Bros like Brommando, Brominator, Mr Anderbro and Bronan The Barbarian. The game offers quite a bit of depth through its line-up of titular ‘Bros’ who are essentially an extended riff on the protagonists from a ton of action movies from the 80s and 90s. That simple description may make Broforce sound thin, but really, that’s not the case. At the end of the level they’ll meet Satan (as you do), cap him and then a helicopter picks them up, leaving the level ‘Liberated’. Their goal is to rescue any POW’s in the region and turn every bad guy they come across into paint with their weapon. In it, players are helicoptered around the globe, landing in terrorist-run hotspots. With Broforce, South African games developer Free Lives Games demonstrates that, no, the likes of Arnie and Sly can still be grist for the design mill when it comes to developing a game – you just have to offer players something other than dick-jokes, colossal loading times and shonky mechanics.īroForce comes on like the illegitimate offspring of Contra and Super Meat Boy shot through the tongue in cheek jingoism of Team America. Some critics opined that perhaps the nostalgia for 80s action movies was no longer sufficient to fuel a videogame. Back in the 90s he was admittedly a canny pastiche of every action movie star from the 80s, but in an age where those guys had started taking the piss out of themselves in The Expendables, the Duke’s lunk-headed, low-brow visage was woefully out of date. When Duke re-emerged from a near 15-year absence to star in Duke Nukem Forever in 2011, he felt around a decade past his sell-by date. ![]() PS4 version coming early 2016.īroForce is probably the best reason the games industry has to close the coffin lid on Duke Nukem.
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