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| Brigador by Mischief Maker 11/13/2016, 9:26pm PST | ||||
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| Brigador
In the mood for an ultraviolent game to blow off some steam? Love the 80s aesthetic revival? Enjoyed those Helicopter Strike games on the Genesis? Give Brigador a try! 
Brigador is an isometric action game where you play a mercenary piloting a variety of mechs, tanks, and hovercraft taking out the orbital defense network of a planet caught in a three-way civil war after its dictator-for-life dies. While the controls are mouse-WASD, there's a real learning curve at work here. Movement happens tank-style and the mouse pointer is not the actual aiming reticule. Instead the game traces a parabolic line for both of your weapons' trajectories and you aim by making that line intersect with your enemies. It's fiddly but you get the hang of it. What I really like about Brigador is the sense of a Godzilla-style rampage missing from so many other mech games. The levels are crawling with fleeing civilians, giving you a sense of scale, and you absolutely flatten the terrain everywhere you go. Smashing through a wall and stomping in guns blazing is massively satisfying once you master the controls well enough to pull it off. The downsides include really choppy animations and a fair bit of unlockable cancer. But the funny thing about the unlocks is the gigantic ultra mechs are the cheapest units to unlock while the tiny vulnerable power armor units (with a corresponding cash reward multiplier) are super expensive, better matching challenge to player learning. It also has a pretty good synthwave soundtrack, good but not Hotline Miami good. Also one of the three factions is a ragtag rebellion whose mechs and tanks are crazily welded together cars and trucks to form ridiculous truckasaurus-like monstrosities. It's so 80s! Recommended, but only if you're willing to put up with a learning curve. |
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Brigador by 11/13/2016, 9:26pm PST  This has more in common with Battletech on Genesis than Desert Strike tbh NT by 11/13/2016, 10:04pm PST I'd call that a Strike clone. The Strike team even made their own ED-209 sim, by 11/14/2016, 1:08am PST Holy shit, you have not played this game until you try an Arlo hovercraft! NT by 11/29/2016, 9:09pm PST Just had a huge update, it's on sale, AND it's now on GOG! NT by 06/02/2017, 3:16pm PDT Also: by 06/02/2017, 3:18pm PDT Someone tell me how they programmed that. by 06/02/2017, 10:42pm PDT I finally picked this up on discount. by 03/20/2024, 6:27am PDT Who/what game SA rejects? NT by 03/20/2024, 8:51am PDT One of them posted on Your Console Sucks, the SA sub-forum for Games and got by 03/20/2024, 10:55am PDT This sent me down a rabbit hole. The crazy ass SA history guy has grifted into by 03/20/2024, 4:19pm PDT PROBLEMATIC hahahahah by 03/20/2024, 7:13pm PDT |
