![]() ![]() Each bro is a throwback to 80s and 90s action cinema references include: First Blood (Rambro), Commando (Commandbro), and The Matrix (Mr. Rescuing other bros grants additional lives but forces a change in character, inducing just enough randomness to make every moment feel fresh. ![]() Broforce plays similar to Contra and Metal Slug with elements of Terraria and Spelunky all wrapped up in Bad Dudes’s shamelessly silly charm. ![]() The player controls an onscreen bro who uses a primary attack and a finite special attack. It’s an homage (bromage… I’m not sorry) to arcade and early console shooters by way of The Expendables. ![]() Originally submitted to the Ludum Dare #23 Game Jam in 2012, Broforce is the brainchild of South African developer, Free Lives, and is currently under construction as a “brototype” beta in the Greenlight corner of the Steam marketplace. Satire and parody are words that get thrown around a lot around videogames - often inappropriately (Anjin Anhut, “You Are Not Getting it”, How to Not Suck at Game Design, 26 September 2013) - and while mainstream games seem to struggle to reconcile certain traditions with their offensive subtexts, it’s possible to have fun with problematic content without endorsing the problems. ![]()
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