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4.5/5
Brings New Meaning to the Term ‘Trenchfoot.’
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/22/2014
“Iron Brigade” was originally developed under the title “Trenched,” but was forced to change due to some sort of copyright nonsense. Coming from the creative quirkiness of development studio, DoubleFine and its charismatic head, Tim Schafer, “Iron Brigade” takes a stab at the popular modern convention of combining an active player on the field with the typically passive Tower Defense genre. I’m no fan of Tower Defense in general, but the active player conceit is usually enough to push a Tower Defense game into my sphere of interest.
Presentation
“Iron Brigade” mixes stylish, hand-painted stills for cutscenes with fairly run-of-the-mill polygons for gameplay. Of course, the character models, animation, and design aesthetic all have the signature DoubleFine weirdness, …
