Brigador: Up-Armored Edition

I like when the everything explodes

Buy this game, buy your friends this game, go to town smashing and burning all that you see. Absolutely spectacular mecha tactics game.

Really easy to pick up and play and it's awesome how the entire map is destructible

Thank you, wonderful game!! FOR THE BRIGADORS|

This game was an instant classic for me when it came out, and the Stellar Jockeys have only made it better since then. Isometric cityscapes never looked so good. The soundtrack, by Makeup and Vanity Set, perfectly pumps your action sequences through the veins of the metropolis you have been hired to destroy. The sheer clarity and singular force of the game's vision encourages players to imagine its world, inhabit its characters, and idolize or demonize its weapons, vehicles, locales, and and foes. Gameplay consists of a deceptively simple set of maxims articulated across a dizzying array of scenarios, all with one goal: cause maximum carnage to make your dollar payout (aka your score) go up. These maxims are: 1. Everything can be destroyed, and you are here to make that happen. 2. Play to your vehicle and its loadout's strengths. 3. Risks have rewards. You are introduced to these maxims and their interesting ramifications over the course of a lengthy training and campaign track, providing players with the tantalizing outline of a plot that parallels the full-lenth novel published alongside this game For me, however, this was only ever going to be the surface of the game. Replayability and depth comes in the form of the freelance missions and the pilots you unlock, which help you set a myriad of difficulty curves and game lengths that can satisfy an itch 30 minutes in length, or several hours at a stretch. Before long you'll be eyeing the roguelike difficulty levels of the famed Closed Casket Special, playing for keeps over the course of dozens of maps, each one more difficult than the last thanks to your pilot's difficulty curve. But if you make it to the end, maybe you'll finally have enough money to unlock all those tantalizing lore blurbs that came to mean so much to you, somewhere along the line...