Before diving into just how retarded awesome Furious 4 is, know that Gearbox isn't done with the main Brothers in Arms storyline. They'll be getting back to that series when the time is right, but in the mean time they're going to be telling us a new, over-the-top story with Furious 4.
Four specialized soldiers are sent directly into the heart of Germany with one mission: Kill Hitler.
Brothers in Arms: Furious 4 (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC) Developer: Gearbox Publisher: Ubisoft To be released: 2012
Think Bulletstorm and Borderlands crossed with Inglorious Basterds. Furious 4 has that same vibe of Quentin Tarantino's last flick with the gameplay style of Bulletstorm crossed with Borderlands's co-op goodness. Furious 4 isn't set in reality so you'll see lots of crazy things, such as Nazi soldiers flying around with jetpacks. On that note about Tarantino, there's even a narrator that comes on at various points and gives a Grindhouse style of dialogue about what's going on in the moment.
Each of the four main characters have different traits and the main one Gearbox focused on was Montana, a large man making use of a chain gun, axe, chainsaw and bear traps. Yes, bear traps. Enemies will actually get stuck in the bear traps making for easy kills.
Killing enemies earns you points and those points will be used to upgrade your characters abilities and weapons. One example of an upgrade for Montana is that he can attach grenades to his bear traps. So when the bear trap captures a guy, the grenade will go off a few seconds later. Don't you just love the sadism?
Furious 4 is a four-player co-op experience, but if you're lacking enough friends the game will fill the role with AI buddies. For the most part players can simply focus on their own thing, but there will be moments that will require team actions. These team actions slow the game down as you burst into a room and take out unsuspecting Nazis.
That's the basic core of Brothers in Arms: Furious 4. It's a crazy ride with crazy weapons with lots of Nazi murdering. This, like many other titles at E3, wasn't playable so I'm hesitant on raising too much praise for the game. But the initial impression is that it's looking really fun and I hope the entire game will be able to keep up the crazy pace that was presented to press.
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"know that Gearbox isn't done with the main Brothers in Arms storyline"
Thats good to know and I hope a true sequel comes out soon. Hells Highway came out 3 years ago now.
Everyone has been making the Inglourious Basterds comparison, and having watched the trailer, outside of the hypermasculine jingoistic rag tag special forces team, I simply don't see it. It's more like Team Fortress World War II.
when they first announced new Brothers in Arms i already was saving my money on it and then they showed "this". i'm sorry but this looks like crap and the only thing that Furious 4 has in common with BiA games is World War 2 setting.
after DNF and now this crap i don't think i want Borderlands 2 from Gearbox if they will put as much "effort" as they did into those two games.
this thing is basically inglorious basterds: the game. even if it had preceded the film, I guess I still wouldn't have been compelled... gearbox's recent games just haven't been gelling with me for some reason.
Bia once was such a good ip. Since the last game its going down constantly. In Hells highgway i hated that rambo sections. MG42 in hands guning down everything that moved. Good bye strategic ww2 fps.
Cool shit, but i'm more glad to know that they aren't done with the original storyline. I really liked the setup of BIA, the whole tactical that let's you actually fire the gun thing. But I think I could handle a little ridicilousness.
I'm glad that Gearbox is still going to get us Baker 4, so I don't mind this. Bulletstorm could've really used a co-op campaign.
As for DNF, it's important to note that Gearbox chose to leave it as 3dRealms made it - for better and worse. I'm interested to see what an actual GBX Duke game will look like...
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8:00 PM on 06.12.2011 | 
"know that Gearbox isn't done with the main Brothers in Arms storyline"
Thats good to know and I hope a true sequel comes out soon. Hells Highway came out 3 years ago now.
after DNF and now this crap i don't think i want Borderlands 2 from Gearbox if they will put as much "effort" as they did into those two games.
As for DNF, it's important to note that Gearbox chose to leave it as 3dRealms made it - for better and worse. I'm interested to see what an actual GBX Duke game will look like...