It’s tense, but I feel that allowing everyone to respawn when a checkpoint is triggered could have been a better solution. It can very easily end up that all bar one player has run out of lives, possibly lost in the mess of destroying the world, and so the ones that remain have to hunt around and head to find another of the handful of hostages to get a buddy back. You start each level with a single life, needing to rescue hostages in order to get more backup, but whether you’re playing solo or as a group of four, the number of hostages remains the same. Thankfully, and quite necessarily, friendly fire is off, allowing you to just go hell for leather at all times during co-op, but co-op play does change the game flow with regard to lives. Switching characters is very frequent, but it can end up rather confusing during co-op to try and figure out just which character it is you’re playing as and keep track of them during the hail of gunfire and screen shaking explosions.
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You don’t really get a choice in the matter, as each and every time you spawn or free a captive from a cage – in order to gain an extra life – you’re handed a different bro to play as. Just as there’s inherent amusement to be found in throwing a grenade and seeing the enemies throw their arms up and try to run away or the way your character’s face in the corner of the screen grins and lights up as you unleash an endless stream of gunfire.Īll of them have different weapons and specials, so you might find yourself swinging a sword one second and then wielding a minigun the next, before having a flamethrower in your hands a few moments later. It’s not the most subtle of comic overtones, but it’s enough to bring a smile to your face, as you unlock characters, recognise the references and appreciate how they’ve been distilled and adapted to this over the top world. Just in case you hadn’t noticed, all of the names have been adapted to include the word ‘bro’.
You’ve got Brommando, Bronan the Brobarian, Brominator, and those are just the Arnold Schwarzenenger characters, with everyone else from MacBrover to Brade, Ellen Ripbro, and even the more modern Cherry Broling with her gun for a peg leg. Practically every action hero that you can think of is represented, and then about a dozen more that you wouldn’t expect. Though it varies between characters, you don’t have a particularly big jump and I sometimes longed for a double jump to cross a particular gap, but you can rapidly wall jump your way up a surface, while grabbing onto corners and minor acrobatics are done on the fly in a very forgiving fashion. Ladders and checkpoint flags are indestructible for this reason, but your character does have a decent base level of traversal. Of course, with so much destruction, there is a certain risk that a level could end up nigh on impossible to complete.
There are often distinct above and below ground routes to take, but it’s liberating to be able to just ignore those options and come crashing through a wall or destroy entire sections of a level. Getting through a level is suitably messy as a consequence, not least because explosive barrels are everywhere and often chain together as they blow up.
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