History VideoGame / IronBrigade

The game was originally published by Microsoft and released in 2011 for UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}, then in 2012 for UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows, bundled with Games for Windows Live in the latter case. On May 28, 2015, Double Fine got the IP rights the PC version of the game was switched from Games for Windows Live to Steamworks for matchmaking, squashing several {{Game Breaking Bug}}s in the process.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Double Fine likes to call the game "[[VideoGame/ChromeHounds Trench Hounds]]".

* EasyLogistics: The Trenches burn through five-thousand gallons of gasoline perk Trench per ''week''. Good thing your supply is uninterrupted.

* RedOniBlueOni: Woodruff and Farnsworth's inventions are spiritual opposites of each other. Woodruff's HumongousMecha are intended to let disabled veterans walk again. Farnsworth's Monovision was intended to being the world to you instead.
* RealIsBrown: DefiedTrope.

* MoreDakka: A single Assault Trench can be outfitted with up to ''six'' machine guns, some of which have multiple barrels.
** On top of that, it can be assisted by even more machine gun turrets.
* NiceHat: Not to VideoGame/TeamFortress2 levels, but your character can wear many nice hats, including a sombrero, a fez, a welding mask, and [[VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}} Razputin's famous PSI-helmet and goggles]].

* AlternateHistory: Television is invented several decades early [[OldMediaAreEvil and it's evil.]]

* BarrierWarrior: Jacobs, which project a [[ShieldBearingMook shield]] on any nearby Tubes. Although, not on themselves or each other. This allows you to take them out quickly, [[ShootTheMedicFirst and you should]]

* BrainUploading: The Martian Bear DLC has [[spoiler:Vlad upload his mind into his [[BearsAreBadNews pet bear, Boris.]]]]

** [[MightyGlacier Assault Trenches]] have the [[StoneWall best defense]] and the [[MoreDakka heaviest weapon loadouts]], but are the slowest and have [[MagicallyIneptFighter less Turret options,]] as well as needing more Scrap to call down turrets.

* FightingYourFriend: [[BigGood Woodruff]] vs. [[BigBad Farnsworth]]
* FlauntingYourFleets: Subtle, but while on the deck of the [=McKinnley=], players can see vast number of bombers flying air cover above the ship in perfect formation.

* NoExportForYou: The European version of the game was taken down within hours of its release due to copyright issues regarding the game's title in Portugal, which prompted an unusually radical solution (see OrwellianRetcon)

--> '''Woodruff''': ''"I do know one thing, that we'll be ready for it."''

** The Cluster trait will have the main shell explode and spread smaller shells, thus turning an area, and anything in it, [[StuffBlowingUp into one giant explosion.]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: Double Fine likes to call the game "[[VideoGame/ChromeHounds Trench Hounds.]]"

* StealthPun: "This one's for [[Website/YouTube you, tube!]]"

* TheTurretMaster: Half of the gameplay is laying down turrets to help you defend your objectives

* WeCanRuleTogether: Vlad asks [[BigGood Woodruff]] to join him and spread "the word of the Broadcast." Woodruff tells Vlad [[ShutUpHannibal where to stick it]]

* BadassMustache: Several.

** ''"Sucks to be [[YouTube you, Tube!]]"''

* StealthPun: "This one's for [[YouTube you, tube!]]"

* GrenadeLauncher: The players have Mortars and Mortar Turrets. The Tubes get the Burst Transmitter, who will target the player's Turrets.

-->''Turn No Man's Land into Real Man's Land!''

* SpiritualSuccessor: Double Fine likes to call the game "[[{{ChromeHounds}} Trench Hounds.]]"

The year is 1926, and the world is being invaded by monsters made completely out of primitive television sets known as ''Monovisions'' or ''Tubes'', which no conventional military has been able to defeat. The only force capable of facing them is the Mobile Trench Brigade, an elite squad of soldiers trained to use [[HumongousMecha Mobile Trenches]], which are quite literally WorldWarOne trenches slapped on a pair of robot legs, with a human soldier operating the whole thing from inside the trench.

It all began during WorldWarOne, when American soldier Frank Woodruff survives getting his legs crushed by a tank and is reassigned to a radio listening post in the Pacific to listen in on enemy radio transmissions. While there, he befriends Vladimir Farnsworth, another crippled soldier. While working, they listen in on an unknown signal, later dubbed the "Broadcast", that killed all who heard it except for Woodruff and Vlad. Instead, they gained supernatural genius.

* TauntButton: While on the ship, the fire buttons (LT/RT for Xbox, L2/R2 for PS3) instead let your marine "salute". Depending on what kind of hat you're wearing, it can range from an actual military salute to various silly gestures, up to and including the hand gesture for [[{{VideoGame/Psychonauts}} Bobby Zilch's dance should you be wearing a specific helmet]].

* SplashDamageAbuse: ActionBomb Tubes blow up everything in an area around them when killed. Including ''other'' Tubes and especially their own kind, allowing you to make them chain-reaction blow up a huge wave if timed correctly.

** In the DLC even the [[spoiler:Bear]] has one.

* BarrierWarrior: Jacobs, which project a shield on any nearby Tubes. Although, not on themselves or each other...

* ComesGreatResponsibility

** CoolStarship: Becomes one in ''Rise of the Martian Bear''.

* FightingYourFriend

* GenreBusting

* HeavilyArmoredMook: Breakers. [[DidntNeedThoseAnyway Changes]] once they're hit with an explosive weapon, though they can be killed without using them.

* MookMaker: Big Bertha.

** Trench weapons also have this treatment, from White (regular), to Green (uncommon, is stronger and/or has a basic ability), to Blue (rare, is even stronger and/or has even better abilities), to Purple (very rare, but is also very powerful and/or has top-grade abilities). Red weapons are also available in the ''Rise of the Martian Bear'' campaign, which are even stronger.

* TauntButton: While on the ship, the fire buttons (LT/RT for Xbox, L2/R2 for PS3) instead let your marine "salute". Depending on what kind of hat you're wearing, it can range from an actual military salute to various silly gestures.

The game was originally published by Microsoft and released in 2011 for UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}, then in 2012 for UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows, bundled with Games for Windows Live in the latter case. On May 28, 2015, Double Fine got the IP rights the PC version of the game was switched from Games for Windows Live to Steamworks for matchmaking, squashing several {{Game Breaking Bug}}s in the process. [[AndTheFandomRejoiced The fandom, predictably, rejoiced.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:You got TowerDefense [[XMeetsY in my]] MechaGame! [[GenreBusting Now they taste better!]]]]

* XMeetsY: ''VideoGame/MondayNightCombat'' meets ''[[{{TabletopGame/BattleTech}} Mech Assault]]''.

* XMeetsY: ''VideoGame/MondayNightCombat'' meets ''[[{{Battletech}} Mech Assault]]''.

''Iron Brigade'' (formerly known as ''Trenched'') is Double Fine's fourth downloadable game as part of their Amnesia Fortnights venture, changing the studio from making one large title every few years to making multiple small games in one year.

** Gameplay wise, Artillery Cannons. Single shot, arcing projectile, long reload, big explosion and high damage. Also, the Gungnir Sniper Cannon, which is single shot and takes much longer to reload than other Sniper Cannons, but has some of the highest damage in the game. Both can be made AwesomeYetPractical when combined with the Quickload ability and some aiming skill on the part of the player, or in the case of the "Mr. Pancakes", a MIRV launcher that not only drops a line of grenades along its arc, but a line of [[HomingProjectile MAGNETIC]] grenades, which can be a bit of a GameBreaker when combined with the Quickload ability.
* AwesomeYetPractical: Purple quality weapons usually have incredibly useful effects as well as high damage, such as a [[MoreDakka fully automatic]] shotgun or a machine gun with [[StuffBlowingUp exploding rounds]]. [[RandomlyDrops Good luck finding one, though.]]

** Gameplay wise, Artillery Cannons. Single shot, arcing projectile, long reload, big explosion and high damage. Also, the Gungnir Sniper Cannon, which is single shot and takes much longer to reload than other Sniper Cannons, but has some of the highest damage in the game. Both can be made AwesomeYetPractical when combined with the Quickload ability and some aiming skill on the part of the player.