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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