Criminally Overlooked Games #11: Brute Force
34Brute Force.
I've never met anyone that has played Brute Force. Everyone says they have heard about it at some point, then I mention i'm not referring to the one released for X-Box a few years ago. Hardly any units were made, less were sold and even fewer made money.
A classic case of a book being judged by it's cover.
Brute Force is not a very good game. It's amateurish at best and frustrating at worst. It's plagued by bad design decisions, quirky bugs and a low budget.. but, it has something a lot of games miss. It has heart.
Clearly the designers put a great deal of time and effort into developing this game, it is unique to itself. An isometric action game where you can charge your attacks and jumps that has an emphasis on dodges and using the weapons lying all over the stages as effectively as possible.
But, we don't play this game for the intense strategy or fair challenge, we play it because it is fun.
There's a lot of things wrong with this game, but somehow these things cancel each other out someway or another and combine to form a ball of pure fun. Everytime I play in a group there's guaranteed something awesome will happen, the game is just full of great moments. Catching a molotov cocktail thrown at you in mid air and sending it right back. Hitting an orange that was thrown at you with your pipe and killing the guy that threw it with a line drive. Manhandling your friends. Adding a rapid fire rocket launcher attachment to your Tek-9 you found when you broke open a potted plant with an errant time bomb.
By all means, it should be one of the worst games ever made, but somehow it uses it's flaws to it's advantage and manages to become something magical in the process.
An amazingly fun game.
Special thanks to my players 2 and 3, Mowtendoo, and KuD.
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