00:00Rated T for Teen
00:05A day at the races for the Strange Brigade
00:10Hello, you are joining the Strange Brigade as they drop into a scene from the campaign
00:15which we're using for our E3 demo this year
00:18So you can see a team of four players here working together to explore the unknown
00:22The campaign's one to four player
00:24It's got some competitive elements in it as well as you'll see as we go through the playthrough here
00:33Oh, opening up a chest, getting some treasure
00:35So you collect gold throughout the game which you can use to unlock weapons later on
00:40So you can increase the size of your arsenal of weapons that are available to you
00:45Another bloody jungle trick
00:46And in this heat
00:48There's a cat minding its own business
00:51There's layers of collectibles in each level, isn't there, Steve?
00:54Yeah, there's a bunch
00:54There's like canopic jars
00:56And lots of things that reward the player for detailed observation of the environment
01:02Is there no problem the brigade can't solve?
01:05So as you explore through the environment
01:07There's a few simple sort of actiony puzzles to solve
01:11Ghastly ghouls blocking the bridge
01:13But can they hold it against the strange brigade?
01:16Yeah, and this beam that's been used to activate the crystal that's unlocked the route here
01:21Can be turned on the enemies and indeed your teammates if you're feeling that way inclined
01:25You can see the player's kind of tag teaming here
01:28So the guy firing the beam is setting them on fire
01:30Which softens them up for a bit of damage, isn't it?
01:32Yeah, yeah
01:34The low road, eh?
01:36Let's hope the old grey matter is up to it
01:39You can see that we've split into two groups here
01:41One group's taking the high path
01:43The other group's taking the low path
01:44One of them's a little bit more puzzly
01:46One of them's a bit more fighty
01:47These are glory
01:48I can think of a few good uses for these razor-sharp rotaries
01:52The detail in the levels has like multiple paths as you go through
01:57It rewards lots of replayability in the levels to find everything
02:06I've never seen this ghost
02:08Aye
02:08What a convincing scream
02:10Yeah, yeah, yeah
02:11It's terrifying
02:12I have seen it like several hundred times
02:14And yet, you know
02:15It fits well
02:16It still gets me
02:17Of the tone, the enemies all fits
02:18These 1930s serial adventure
02:21Rompy adventure that the characters are on
02:23The whole setting and theme in the game
02:25Is based on these 1930s, 40s adventure serial matinee movies
02:29So it's all deliberately kind of tongue-in-cheek and hokey
02:32It's got a lot of sort of charm and fun
02:34The emphasis is very much on not taking itself too seriously
02:48Well, they're not called the subtle brigade, I suppose
02:52It's not subtle
02:53He's right
02:53Spiky log trap
02:54There we go
02:55Highlighting that lack of subtlety
02:57One of the hidden puzzles here
02:58So you've had to go off the beaten track a little bit to find this one
03:01There's loads of different puzzle doors like this throughout the levels
03:04Behind it, you'll find a relic
03:06And by collecting sets of those relics
03:08You can unlock more amulet powers
03:10As we continue on
03:11You'll start to see those amulet powers coming into play a little bit more
03:18Cranked it
03:30So we're about to see here the power gems being applied to the weapons
03:34So each weapon has got a different number of slots
03:36And you can use damage upgrades but also considerably different effects
03:41Like ricocheting bullets or ice bullets or fire bullets
03:44And as you unlock more and more powerful weapons
03:46They come with more slots available
03:55Here's the first of the prototype weapons
03:57The exploding crossbow
03:59Which I think Gracie's going to demonstrate for us now
04:08Super
04:13Yikes
04:21You see a couple of amulet attacks here
04:23So there was a six-shooter with powerful bullets
04:30And there's the Angus, the Wrath of Ra
04:32A kind of radial explosive fire wave
04:35So solving one of the many puzzles in the game here as well
04:38So this is kind of operating cooperatively
04:40One person standing on a footplate to open the door
04:43The other having to thread their way across a maze
04:47Following the clues that are laid out in the room
04:49So the more complicated puzzles are off the beaten track aren't they
04:53So if you want to play the game as a straight co-op shooter you can do
04:56If you want to explore the environments and find unlockables
04:59Give you cool new treasures
05:01You can play that way as well
05:03What we're hoping to see is people repeatedly playing these levels
05:08And discovering whole new areas that they missed the first time around
05:12And here's a Nexus
05:13So this is one of the systems where you're undermining
05:17Sateki's grasp over the environment by smashing these crystals
05:34Oh lord, acrobatic assailants
05:37To arms, strange brigade
05:40Introducing the Ghouls
05:42Nasty, fast-moving, teleporting, horrible
05:45There's Frank with a flamethrower there, that's particularly brutal
05:48I see, they're coming out the runny walls now
05:52Gracie's using the chain electricity attack
05:56Followed up by a grenade in the face, good combo
05:58So you can see the sort of pace of the game comes into its own
06:02In these great big fights where you've got amulet powers triggering
06:05You've got prototype weapons doing loads of damage
06:07You've got environmental traps, spinning blades
06:10You've got grenades that players can throw
06:13Because of the way that you charge up your amulets
06:15By sort of absorbing the souls from the enemies
06:17The more of them there are, the faster the rate of the combat becomes
06:21And so the intensity really ramps up quickly
06:23Means there's a bit of competition there for souls as well
06:25Yeah, and that's it, a very short section of one of our levels
06:28Thanks very much for watching
06:30Strange Brigade is available August 28th on Xbox One, PS4 and PC
06:35What massive miscreation is this monstrosity?
06:39Darwin Spectacles! How will our heroes get out of this one?
06:44Tune in next week to find out in another gripping installment of...
06:50The Strange Brigade!
06:53Chapter 9
06:54Grazie a tutti.
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