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  • Rebellion's Strange Brigade is a jolly refreshing romp

    Strange Brigade, the new game by Sniper Elite studio Rebellion, is a charming beast, a breathless romp right out of the pages of a hammy British adventure mag. It's Brendan Fraser's rolled up shirt sleeves in the sandy archaeological action film The Mummy, his beefy fists thumping mummified monsters because they jolly well deserved it! It's all "Treacherous Tombs!" and "Chaps!" and smoking card character portraits. It's fairly irresistible.
    And Strange Brigade barely pauses for breath. The level I play at EGX 2017 (the level demoed in the video below) throws me and one other person - you can play with up to four, or alone - into a baked and crumbling North African temple overgrown with vines, and immediately we're set upon, undead around us, behind us, everywhere.
    They're not deadly but they're no pushovers, and they're enough to be a very real problem when Strange Brigade starts mixing cocktails of enemies for you, slinging in armoured kinds of mummies and mini-bosses like a hulking minotaur. Focus for too long on the big danger and a pack of smaller dangers shambles up behind. It's a bit like Serious Sam in some ways, enemies constantly appearing from all quarters, and it keeps your heart pumping like a good Sunday afternoon action film should.
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