00:14Hello everyone, we are Rebellion and we're here at E3 2017 showing Strange Brigade, our new title.
00:22Those of you who are here at the show will be able to play it, but if you're not here
00:27then we've just played through the demo, that's myself.
00:30I'm Tim Jones and Andy Pattinson.
00:32So we'll be just talking you through what we've just experienced. I guess let's just get into the gameplay.
00:37Let's do it.
00:38So the Strange Brigade are a super secret special operations group working for the British government.
00:45This is the 1930s, it's obviously a fantastical world, but they've all been selected for their extremely special abilities and
00:54prowess with guns.
00:56Andy, what's this character here?
00:58Her name is Gracie. The current weapon is the shotgun, because I'm quite partial to the shotgun, I must say.
01:04The shotgun is awesome.
01:05Big fan.
01:06I'm the scholar, Professor De Quincey. Professor Archimedes De Quincey.
01:10Nice, nice.
01:10He's an Oxford scholar and archaeologist, but also a dab hand with a machine gun.
01:15Yeah, he's not bad, he's not bad.
01:17All the characters have got their own sort of, what's the word?
01:21Attributes.
01:22Yes, attributes and specialities with the weapons.
01:25And they've all got their own specific special powers, their special moves.
01:28Yes, yes.
01:29Which, probably one of the key mechanics that's worth pointing out in the gameplay is that the more you inflict
01:36damage on the enemies and sustain damage,
01:39you'll fill up your amulet meter at the bottom, and when that fully fills up, well, even over the course
01:46of filling it up, you will power up how powerful you are.
01:48So the more you do it, the more powerful you get, and then ultimately, if you fill it up fully,
01:52you'll highlight the amulet, which you can then unleash as a special power.
01:56So, probably worth noting there, in the background you can also see a spinning blade trap.
02:01So there are lots of traps in the game, lots of environmental hazards you can use to kill the enemies.
02:05So if you shoot the glowing orb on the top of the trap, it'll pop up and take out a
02:10bunch of enemies at once, which is highly entertaining and effective.
02:14Yeah.
02:15The cool thing when you're in a real midst of a huge fight, which you'll probably see a lot of
02:19later in this playthrough,
02:23the more you do your power-ups and you unleash those attacks, it'll really quickly fill your meter again.
02:28Yes.
02:28So you can kind of chain your power-ups together, which is hugely satisfying.
02:31Oh, there we go.
02:31That was mine.
02:32That's Gracie's special.
02:33So you can pull an enemy towards you.
02:36Yep.
02:36Doing well.
02:36Right, I think it's time to finish him off.
02:39Oh.
02:40Nice.
02:41Oh.
02:42There we go.
02:42I am.
02:43Oh, you're good.
02:44I'm back, I'm back.
02:44Oh, and there was me just firing my magic into his back there.
02:48He's going down.
02:50There he is.
02:52Hey.
02:56Oh, that's that glowing door over there.
02:58Each of the characters has the ability to open certain areas in the environment, and
03:03that one's only open to Gracie.
03:06It's aligned with her particular class.
03:08Yes.
03:09The engineer, is she?
03:10Yes.
03:11Engineer in this case, yeah.
03:12And so, yeah, there's going to be secret areas that each of the characters can open,
03:17so it's well worth playing through as a group, as all different characters, or if you're
03:21a single player, replaying the level so you can experience everything.
03:24Yes.
03:25And find all the treasure.
03:27Because the more loot you pick up, the more you can spend it at workbenches to improve
03:34your weapons and your armory.
03:39So, heading up the stairs here.
03:40Here we go, coming out into the bright sunshine.
03:42And there's a workbench just ahead of us.
03:44There we go.
03:44And what did I select?
03:46Oh, no.
03:46No.
03:47Nothing at that point.
03:48What do I?
03:49You're sort of changing your mind there.
03:50There we go.
03:51I'm going to have a look through the weapons.
03:52Oh, did you change your weapon as well?
03:53I did, yeah.
03:54Oh, you went for the automatic rifle?
03:56No, I went for the same as Archimedes.
03:59Yeah.
04:00Yeah, it's a good weapon.
04:01Yeah, it's very useful.
04:02But did you also pick up the special weapon, the Krakatoi?
04:05I did.
04:05I did.
04:06The fiery shotgun, which sets people on fire as well as blowing them backwards.
04:11Super satisfying.
04:12Oh, there's me.
04:13I found one of my secret doors.
04:15We could move straight on, but there's actually a little secret area just down here.
04:19See those glowing glyphs on the wall?
04:23There's actually a hint over in the environment, just where Gracie was just looking,
04:26which shows you the order in which you need to activate those glyphs in order to open the door.
04:31Yes.
04:32And that's different every time you play, so you can't just learn the process.
04:35Yes.
04:35You have to look around and find where the code is.
04:38Each and every time, yeah.
04:39The game's full of little puzzles like that and some bigger ones.
04:42Yeah.
04:43Oh, here we go.
04:43Strange Brigade's dirigible up there.
04:44Here we go.
04:45It's not a Zeppelin because that's German technology.
04:48Yes.
04:48And we are, you know, fighting for the British Empire in this game.
04:51Indeed.
04:52Indeed.
04:53Getting a little bit more treasure there.
04:55Okay.
04:56Heading into a little bit of a darker area.
04:58This looks a bit spooky.
04:59What's going on here?
04:59Oh.
05:01Oh.
05:01There's one of our new enemies.
05:03That's a high priest mummy chap.
05:06And these guys are particularly challenging because they have the ability to raise other mummies from the ground.
05:13Yes.
05:13As we're about to say in fact.
05:15Yeah.
05:15With his scary bandage tentacles.
05:18He's also got a pretty challenging attack where he sends like streams of bandages out.
05:24Rolling through the ground.
05:25Yeah.
05:26To dive out of the whale.
05:29Oh, yes.
05:29Oh, here we go.
05:30And all the characters have got throwing weapons as well.
05:33Different each one.
05:34I think Gracie is, is that just a regular grenade?
05:37That's a regular grenade, yeah.
05:39Whereas Archimedes, the scholar I'm playing with, he's got sticky grenades.
05:42Yes.
05:42Which you can stick to the environment or to enemies.
05:45Yes.
05:45And as I discovered yesterday, much to my chagrin, I threw my sticky grenade at one of the assassins that
05:52we're going to see later.
05:53Yes.
05:53And then he like came barreling towards me with the grenade attached.
05:57This is going to backfire heavily.
05:59Yeah.
06:00I regretted that.
06:01Yeah.
06:02And this is the vessel of enlightenment.
06:04There we go.
06:04That's what we've been seeking out.
06:06Indiana Jones style.
06:07Yeah.
06:07In this particular part.
06:10Nope.
06:10Oh.
06:10Cutthroats.
06:11Oh.
06:11Yeah, these are the cutthroat assassins I was referring to earlier.
06:14These guys are a little bit more fast moving than the mummies.
06:18Yeah.
06:18And sword wielding as well.
06:20Yeah.
06:21Yes.
06:22And they've got the knack of a handy dive roll as well.
06:25Yes.
06:25Yeah, they're really tricky.
06:30Oh.
06:31Nope.
06:32See.
06:33Yeah, so you just have to pummel them with gunfire or melee attack them until their armour
06:37comes off and eventually you wear them down.
06:39They're pretty persistent.
06:41They are.
06:41And it's always when you're not looking.
06:43Yeah, I know.
06:43You always sneak around.
06:44You've got to watch yourself in all angles in this game.
06:47Oh, nice.
06:48Oh, there you go.
06:50The enemies also drop a little bit of ammo as they die, which is helpful, but.
06:56Oh.
06:57Nice.
06:58Watch yourself by that spike trap.
06:59Yeah.
07:01It's about to get triggered.
07:02That grid on the floor.
07:02Is it going to get triggered?
07:03You're just as vulnerable to traps as the enemies are and.
07:07There we go.
07:07I think you triggered that one.
07:09Yeah, I did.
07:09That was nicely done.
07:10Yeah, I remember thinking at the time.
07:11I wonder if Andy's over there.
07:12Yeah.
07:13I don't really care.
07:14I'm going to take this, Chris.
07:15I'm going to go for it.
07:17Yeah.
07:18But yeah, you do have to watch out for your companions around the traps as well.
07:23You can't just fire them off willy-nilly.
07:25Oh, we've got new people.
07:27Okay, yeah.
07:28These mummies are pretty mean.
07:30They'll throw the spears at you.
07:32Flaming spears, no less.
07:33Yes.
07:34So you've got a bit more ranged attacks to contend with.
07:38Which in and of itself isn't that much of a problem, but when you're fighting mummies
07:42and cutthroat assassins at the same time, it mixes it up somewhat.
07:48Thanks for watching Strange Brigade with us and stay tuned to see more stuff coming from
07:53us at Rebellion over the course of the next week at E3.
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