Professor Archimedes De Quincy - a scholar who is light on his feet and has a penchant for locating hidden secrets. Frank Fairburne, the seasoned adventurer, a bruiser with extra health that knows his way around weaponry. Gracie Braithwaite – the Rosie the Riveter in waiting, a melee thumper with a mean uppercut. Consider, for example, the cast of characters. Strange Brigade gets so many things right. From the ever-escalating battles with pulpy pseudo-Egyptian supernatural beings to the Indiana Jones-esque romps through dank, trap-laden caves, Strange Brigade goes all in on its old-timey adventure motif, and this serves to elevate what could have been a standard multiplayer shooter into something that feels fresh and unique. However, the trailers that got me excited about Strange Brigade did a great job of communicating the themes of the game the game truly delivers on the promise of those first glimpses. While I recently posted that Strange Brigade looked like “the greatest videogame ever made”, I now concede that I might have been a little over-excited by the trailers. While many games have attempted to capture the look, feel, and mood of 30s’ serials, none has ever come closer to replicating such pulpy entertainment than Strange Brigade. But I do need to give credit to Strange Brigade’s writing team, who manage to keep fresh one liners and excited narration flowing through the game’s approximately nine hour campaign. Maintaining that British boilerplate 1930’s adventure cadence through an entire review would be exhausting. Those rapscallions at Rebellion, those devilish developers of gregarious games involving surreptitious snipers and unruly undead, have conspired to create Strange Brigade! – a crackling corker of enticing entertainment, boisterous battles, skulking, slimy skeletons and danger defying demonstrations of derring-do!
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