1:45 It absolutely does support split-screen co-op in the campaign, it even says so in the info text when selecting campaign; you just need to press start on a second controller on the join campaign screen, or at any time during gameplay.

@whocares9033

11 ай бұрын

It was the only way I ever played 😂

@boglimboy

6 ай бұрын

I remember playing this game with my sister split screen

@Cuthberu

19 күн бұрын

Yep, good times playing co-op with my brother

It’s almost criminal that these games weren’t released as backwards compatibility. All of the Microsoft studio games… brute force, Mechassault and bloodwake, etc. They would look amazing on series X!

@PoeLemic

11 ай бұрын

Yes, also Azurik. I loved that damn game.

@PoeLemic

11 ай бұрын

And, Hunter: the Reckoning. Very good game too.

@-Bowen-

10 ай бұрын

Can't forget Conkers Live & Reloaded and bad fur day.

@jamieenoshima5147

9 ай бұрын

​@@-Bowen-That works on my xbox 360.

@sbplankton_1999

9 ай бұрын

Really?

My dad bought a Xbox just to play this game with me. Is my fav game ever, I remember play it since 5yo.

Split screen on this existed and was so fun. When you had less players than controllers, they’d give you a free marine

This is the one game I always look for on the store every now and then, one of my favourites as a kid, 20 years gone so quick

@wandajaximov4527

3 ай бұрын

Bro id kill for this game just to be backwards compatible

Another game on Xbox that I thought was extremely underrated was "full spectrum warrior". I would love a remake of those games!

I was under 10 playing this and never finished it. But itll always be that game i never forget.

that was the good old days😢 I love this game.

@WatermelonJiki

Жыл бұрын

We are gaming OGs, I played it when it came out too. Rented it from Blockbuster

@desanctisapostata

2 ай бұрын

​@@WatermelonJikisame. Skipped school to play It with my aunt

@desanctisapostata

2 ай бұрын

Same

One of the greatest games of all time easily. Put thousands of hours into this game casually lol

loved this game as split screen co-op.

WOW, thank you for bringing this game to light. This is one of my all time favourite games. So many amazing memories.

I miss this game, brutis is the goat lol

This is the first game I ever played through entirely. Brings me right back to childhood.

In a lot ways, this is a proto-Mass Effect. It feels so like it, but more grimier, more self aware action flick. More 2000's edge lord, haha. It's ME without the shiny tech and bright blue everywhere. And it plays like it too. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if this was early inspiration for ME and maybe we never knew.

Happy 20th anniversary of original xbox game Brute Force.

I never played it but I remember seeing this game everywhere.

I definitely recommend the paperback book for this game brute force… For this game, I particularly liked the graphics, characters, and voice acting probably more than the gameplay. But still a stellar game!

Thank you for bringing this game to light! You have no idea how many times I've tried to get this game on my PC (I could never find the right game file) I have not played it since I was a kid and I've always wanted to relive this game again thanks for giving this game the appreciation it deserves

I think Halo 2 might have been the first console game whose graphics and style really shocked me and made me feel like I was seeing the future of gaming. That game has no right to be that amazing in basically every way

Man this brings me back!

underrated masterpiece

My brother bought an xbox that came with this game and midtown madness 3, unfortunately it was the only two games we'd ever own on xbox because we mostly used our ps2, but we spent a lot of time playing this game and it was such a phenomenal game for its time. It was unlike anything else we played back then

At 26:18 “They killed Kenny! I’ll get those punks.” Is that a nod to South Park?

Ferguson base is a nothing area, I assume it was intended to be an optional objective or something but it was cut out. The super soldiers are not invincible, they are just very VERY bullet spongy, best just use hawk in stealth to cut them down, hide behind shack at the end to recover and use mines and grenades to take out the two turrets. But there is nothing there, shack doesn't open (I recall some people in old forum posts claim it did for them but most didn't), and nothing happens. Turrets would glitch and fall over sometimes and a wall wasn't placed on the ground correctly, think it was just unfinished.

@SodBoi

4 ай бұрын

I managed to glitch into the back of Ferguson base, I have a video on some channel somewhere. There is absolutely nothing within the base - just hills. You can glitch through the map once inside which "deletes" your character. When your squad dies and you re-spawn at the checkpoint the character who fell wont appear and your controls lock.

me and brother pick up this game again yesterday, had fun doing splitscreen campaign

I think this game atleast deserves to be HD Remastered.

This was my childhood , loved this game

Brute Force doing what many L4D clones are doing now days, before it was cool

me, my brother and my dad used to spend hours during the summer playing this game! i wish games like this would get revamped. it would be sick with today’s graphics.

@314Reactor

6 ай бұрын

I'm hoping Nightdive make a remaster!

Omg i was obsessed with this when i was a kid!

Thanks for your impassioned look at the textures and bump mapping. It is tempting to feel like the only one who would be noticing this stuff. EVen Halo 1's graphics are underrated by many.

This game is almost 20 years old!

@SpiKSpaN-ei6zq

10 ай бұрын

Brutal

My cousin and I greatly appreciated the game when we rented it from a rental store called Hastings. I loved Tex as I grew up watching action flicks, and my cousin loved Brutus and Flint. The game is so obscure from my social group. I turned the campaign of Brute Force into my homebrew D&D campaign. The players loved defeating Shadoon.

This needs to be remastered

I play this game right through at least once or twice a year, it really is a fun little unique game from a bygone era it has that early 2000's jank that makes it quite quirky and nostalgic too me while not perfect at all it would be nice too see a re release or re imaging its a intresting premis a 3rd person fps where you can control 4 unique characters on the fly not many games come too mind that fit that nesh it really coukd have potential if someome where too pick up the IP and fiddle around with things and smooth it out into a great game... ahh a man can dream lol

This was my game! Then I graduated to gears of war

0:18 Is it me or does the intro trailer of the game show things that are not in the game like you see the characters in a temple, there is a woman hanging from a roof I never find that in the game.

@314Reactor

10 ай бұрын

Good spot - it was probably made in an earlier stage of development; I imagine they had to remove that bit due to ratings issues

This game is like the summation and distillation of great 90s action schlock in a sci-fi package, and it was also an early pioneer of this genre and gameplay loop, although yeh there's earlier stuff like this too of course. But we still have many games today that are basically this game: Just Cause Series, Far Cry, Crysis, Sniper Elite. So basically, " GunMan in big open area runs around looking for bad men to kill. Occasionally find clustered BadMen, sometimes in camps or with special perks, etc. Slowly work through big area by going through small areas while still in big area." Except because the areas are too big, the games assets are very mid and everything is too far apart and there's not enough content and too much reused content and it just looks generic. But there's always a few games every generation that try to push the envelope too much and eventually get to the "Empty game" problem. Where you have the most amazing looking giant world ever with so many billions of people and buildings and whatever, and then they didn't have enough time to make a game that works with a world that big

Me and my mates use to verse each other and we would set up our guys in order to try and out maneuver each other. Was really fun.

Never played this one as a kid saw it though

I think that i would love to see a remake or a new game of brute force with the gameplay of gears of war while keeping the special abilities of the 4 characters. While Gears of War is on Sera, the new brute force would be in space visiting different planets. The possibility of having a lot of different weapon would make it interesting. Just imagining Brutus hiding behind something and using his heat vision to see where are the others ennemies would be cool. And adding more characters to team. Hope for The Coalition to buy the game rights.

Wow this game looks awesome

This game and Republic command deserve remasters

One of the most fun I've had with a video game (co-op). Very very underappreciated. The game still looks good in my opinion. 25:47 even has depth of field wow

Hey mate what xemu settings are you using? struggling to get my brute force to load after the first mission? seems to be a common problem on the latest xemu build

This was my childhood!

@314Reactor

Жыл бұрын

Check out the later parts and there's a part 5 coming Thursday! Nearly at the end of the game now

We played the campaign on solitscreen when this first came out. Don't know why you'd have a problem doing it nowadays.

You're good damn right it's an underrated classic

Aside from the campaign; is there any more single player content? Like bot battles and all? (Didnt grow up with an XBOX but knew of this game; wishing it came to PC)

I'm afraid to say that I think the over sharpening actually kinda ruined the look of the game for me haha; the way this looked on CRT made much more sense. The've clearly made this with the limitations of CRT in mind, and so they relied on CRTS to better at depicting some things better than others, in order to hide unimportant details in the CRT

Any games similar to this game out now on ps5???

Did you have a brute force disk? Or did you download it from somewhere?

Thanks for showing us this. I wish it was backwards compatiable, and it's not in the Xbox store anymore. I wish they'd remake it, because I never got to finish it. SUBBING. Do you show how to setup Xemu? And, is it easy to get ROMs for this and some other good games? I used to love Brute Force and Hunter: The Reckoning. Both awesome games along with Azurik.

@314Reactor

10 ай бұрын

There's a link in the description that goes over Xemu setup and how to run Xbox games. I'm really hoping one day to see these games on Steam with proper remasters though.

my brother bought a modded xbox just to play this game, and now i play it more than him. I used to play this when i was like 7-8 now i’m 22 😂😂

Un des jeux que je joue encore aujourd'hui, j'ai du le terminer plusieurs dizaines de fois. j'aurais tellement voulu un brute force 2 😁😔

9:17 Sure, halo invented radars and reticles.

This was a very under-rated game sadly. If I remember correctly, gaming magazines had much more influence back then than they do today, thankfully. These were the days before Steam or beta previews, most gamers would wait for the reviews to come out then decide if it was worth the $59 or not. This title was believed to be the "Halo killer" for the 2003 season but it never should have been compared to Halo at all, as BF was a tactical, squad based game more akin to Full Spectrum Warrior or Gears of War than an FPS. The gaming house that made this (Digital Anvil) was very, very small, with almost no budget. You can tell by the sparse credits. It was a sheer miracle this game was ever made. They were dissolved after the release of Brute Force, a victim of bad reviews from "critics" that really had no idea what they were doing.

I guess you would say hawk is your favorite character right 😂

I remember playing the entire campaign with my brother and occasional friends, so it does have split-screen up to 4. Maybe the European version didn't have split-screen?

@314Reactor

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I somehow totally missed it, it does support local 4 player

They should put this on game pass or remaster or remake it

I Still have my cd

This should be remastered or remade on the new system with online play

I always wanted to play this game back then but I ended up forgetting about it till I saw someone mentioned it & showed a picture of the game few moments ago so I kind of look it up just to see what it would have been like. I would have enjoyed this game, I wouldn't mind if they do a remake of it as I'd play it, I can never find myself going back to playing old games because of the graphics as well as newer games are just better in every aspect take Assassin's Creed Black flag when it came out it was my favorite one but after Syndicate I couldn't go back to playing it.

Holy shit this brings me back 2 years after high school I played tge f out of this game!!!!!!!

Bump mapping is amazing, do they still use it in Todays games, or is it different technique? This game literally look like a low polygon current or last gen game.

@314Reactor

8 ай бұрын

I think it's still used now although it will be full normal mapping now and most likely as part of modern physically based rendering pipelines.

TOOO LONG BUT I STILL KNOW SOMEone like Flint and Hawk rest i forget ^^ It was a awesome game

Nostalgia is cool And all but this game was plagued by invisible walls and other glitches. It had potential

What do you mean "underrated?" That was played to death.

@Nitroh-

6 ай бұрын

No one really talks about it that much. I remember it was decently popular back in the day but when talking about retro classics like Xbox no one seems to mention Brute Force that much.

I’m pretty sure I had this game is a demo disc from mechassault two