Two teams of Bros, known collectively as the Broforce, Broforce 4th july Expendabros, act as the main protagonists of Broforce, Broforce 4th july Expendabros, respectively. In-game, all Bros have their own attack methods, both normal and special, making each useful in their own way.

In the first ten minutes of Broforce the game averages a good two ‘bro’ puns per minute. Whilst this is amusing for a while (including bro’d up names such as a Bruce Willis-inspired Bro Hard), it does feel a bit excessive, but I suppose that was the point: Broforce is a celebration of action movie and arcade excess after all. It does recede after a while mercifully, and takes nothing away from the game itself.The basic objective of any given level in Broforce is fairly simple. Take a ride in your helicopter to get to the level, then rescue hostages while raining death and destruction down upon the bad guys and ride off into the sky to the thrashing guitar rock that makes up the victory theme. You start off as a randomly-selected Bro from the starting pool, and each time you rescue a prisoner you turn into a different Bro. Each character has their own weapon and special so you go from machine guns and grenades to swords and daggers and so on throughout each level, losing a life (provided you have spare ones in reserve) sees you back at the last checkpoint (a triumphantly-hoisted American flag) as a different Bro again.

Once you rescued a set number of prisoners, you’ll unlock a new character to join your roster, all inspired by those famous movie icons of yesteryear. Truly it is a joy to see what comes next in this ‘spot the movie reference’ carousel, as the ensemble includes unsubtle nods to the onscreen heroic personas of stars like Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Sly Stallone, Harrison Ford, Keanu, Kurt Russell and beyond. The pot luck nature of which character you’ll be next keeps things interesting and means you sometimes have to make tactical changes on the fly, mostly though, it’s just incredibly groan-inducing and not so secretly pleasing to see how Broforce manages to shoehorn ‘bro’ into movie character names.The pixelart carnage that Broforce serves up visually really is in keeping with that late 80’s theme, it’s an audio-visual package that practically grows it’s own mullet, it’s so over the top and testosterone-fuelled. From its throaty announcer to its hair metal soundtrack to its brightly-colored explosion and gore-filled art style, Broforce is as much a love letter to an exuberant era of cinema as it is a pastiche of it, and is all the better for it. Everything ties into the overarching concept beautifully.The way Broforce plays is most in debt to games such as Metal Slug (in a massive way) and Contra. Run and gun combat with a touch of platforming.

Generally speaking, you can dictate the pace you play at, chipping away at enemy forces, using objects in the levels to take them out en masse so you can preserve your lives. Of course the best way to play Broforce, and the way that’s most encouraged given the completion time stat that pops up at the end of each level, is at full tilt with lightning fast reflexes required to murder reams of enemy fodder at a time. This is when Broforce is at its finest in terms of pure challenge and enjoyment, but it does visibly struggle at times when too much is going on at once. A shame really, as it’s a glorious sight to see when it holds up.There could be a danger of repetition given the fairly straightforward level design and setup, and things do occasionally get a little samey, but much is done to ensure Broforce captures your attention and keeps a firm grip on it. The constantly changing roster is obviously an important factor in freshness, as I alluded to before, but occasionally the game throws special challenge levels at you to test your mettle should you so wish.

In these, you have one life to complete the level and no survivors to rescue and obtain extra lives from. Careful planning is easy enough in the early stages that crop up, but things get suitably sweaty later as the screen fills with things out to smear your carcass into the ground like a meaty jam. They are optional, but definitely worth checking out if the campaign proper is feeling a bit too easy peasy for you. Especially as they give you some extra perks in regular levels, such as ammo packs, should you complete them. The other facet of Broforce that gives it some legs is the 4-player co-op.

What is already chaotic fun alone becomes a gleeful mess of insanity when other people are added to the macho mix. Some of the same slowdown issues of the singleplayer portion pop up again here too sadly, except here it’s joined by some horrendous lag as the game randomly freezes regardless of internet connection speed. That’s a big problem with so many moving images on screen at once, as it can lead to some frustratingly unfair deaths. Also, you best be prepared to argue with your friends, Broforce does that most wonderful of tricks by starting small-scale warfare in your living room over who screwed over who.

That’s a positive by the way, good co-op experiences should do exactly this to you, otherwise you’re just screaming at strangers online and there’s more than enough of that bollocks going around already.It’s unfortunate that Broforce suffers some technical issues as it really does a lot to prevent a good game becoming a great one. When everything clicks, Broforce is a murderous symphony of perfectly orchestrated destruction, but on those occasions where the game falters, the music stops for a moment, leaving you to lament the silence of disappointment. Then it blares into life once more and all is right in Broforce’s freedom-fightin’ world again.

This one caught our eye. Broforce is a gleefully bombastic 2D side-scrolling shooter in the Contra tradition - and available this month for free to PlayStation Plus members. However, it hasn't launched in the best of states, and its variable performance is a stumbling block to enjoying the experience we'd like. We're talking about a game that's designed to run at 60fps, but as shown in our video below, can (and very much will) drop all the way down to the teens. So what exactly is going on, and why might PS4 performance be struggling as it is?

Of course, Broforce is a two-dimensional game built on pixel art visuals - a game you wouldn't suspect would test any modern gaming hardware as it apparently does. It's also one that absolutely revels in destruction physics, and particularly with four players, everything on-screen is apt to explode, showering the screen in particles. Indeed, entire levels are blown apart as players tear through each new stage, and it's this dynamic that ultimately brings the frame-rate to a crawl. At peak action, Broforce's main selling point sadly ends up reducing the game to a nearly unplayable state.

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Given the mania of its run-and-gun premise, it's a bit of a shame. Broforce on PC shows the game running as it should at a full 60fps, but on PS4 it suffers one of the lowest frame-rates we've seen on Sony's machine - down to 15fps at its nadir. The only runner-up in this category is The Last Tinker, another notably weak performer on console, and it's perhaps no coincidence to find that both of these games run on the Unity engine. A recent look at Firewatch (another game based on this tech) shows this is now something of a running theme, and though that game's performance was bolstered by a later patch, it's clear that certain Unity titles aren't translating as smoothly to console hardware as you'd hope.

Of course, only so much blame can be placed on this engine tech. This month sees the release of Android Assault Cactus on PS4 as well, for example - another indie title built on the Unity foundation, which happens to run at a stable frame-rate while pushing an outstanding visual style. Clearly there's a degree of accountability for the way each game is optimised for console hardware. As far as Broforce's overall playability is concerned, the game's rapid lateral movement really flags the issue up though. At a sub-30fps refresh, we're often simply struggling to play the game.

There's another issue on top of this. Each time we begin a new stage, our leading bro freezes in place mid-motion within the first few seconds of play. The game continues regardless, but player control is suspended for a few frames - bringing the character to an abrupt halt, and making it too easy to perilously mistime jumps at the start of a level. Given each stage lasts between 30 and 60 seconds, it's a frequent enough bug to frustrate, and we hope it's easy to address down the line.

A disappointing turnout at launch, then. Broforce has a lot going for it; a frenetic, addictive shooter with little reservation, and a potentially great option for couch co-op. But it's also not the fully unleashed experience we'd hoped for on PS4 due to this erratic frame-rate, and also glitches that make it frustrating to progress through. If you're eager, it's available alongside Galak-Z (another Unity game with performance issues) on the PlayStation Plus store right now. But until a follow-up patch hits, PC offers up a far better overall ride.