A rip-roaring 1920s adventure in the heart of Egypt, with zombies, monsters and bants…

By Lee Abrahams

Strange Brigade

Developer: Rebellion

Publisher: Rebellion

Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox

CO-OPERATIVE shenanigans required to take down unbelievable evil in the jolly confines of Egypt? Sounds like a job for the Strange Brigade, a ragtag group of adventurers and their unseen benefactress who aim to keep the world safe from supernatural occurrences by, well, shooting everything in sight and solving simple puzzles. Coming from Rebellion, the makers of notorious testicle blasting game Sniper Elite, this is a more off beat and easy going romp, though one that feels more of a diversion than a main event.

Certainly it has a very British sense of humour and relies on the banter between our heroes, their almost headmistress style overseer and the sarcastic narrator to keep things moving along. Set in the 1930’s and presented using classical over the top newsreel style, it certainly gets the tone right too. Which is just as well as the story, on the whole, is a bit of a mess with the whole thing boiling down to stopping an evil spirit called Seteki from doing evil stuff. None of the characters feel overly fleshed out beyond the caricatures that they’re obviously meant to represent. Which is fine for the most part, as it is clearly meant to be tongue in cheek, but it would have been nice to have a bit more to flesh them out than the odd quip and some menu descriptions.