Sniper Elite and Battlezone developer Rebellion have announced that Strange Brigade, the spiritual sequel to their Zombie Army trilogy of co-op shooters, will launch on August 28. Pre-orders are available today, and there will also be a special boxed Collector's Edition – although, disappointingly, that will only be available with console versions of the game.
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Those who pre-order the game will receive the Secret Service Weapons Pack, which, according to Rebellion, consists of "the butter-smooth Wilkers & White P19 pistol, the piercingly precise Stoudenmire 960 submachine gun, and the punch-packing, one-of-a-kind Gehrig-Delgane S1 rifle." These will be usable by all characters.
While the Collector's Edition isn't available on PC, there will be a Deluxe Edition of the game, which contains Strange Brigade and its DLC Season . We don't have any specifics regarding the contents or price of either the Deluxe Edition or the Season , but it will include new missions, items, and weapons.
Strange Brigade is set in the 1930s and is more colourful and adventurous than Rebellion's Zombie Army Trilogy, following a team of up to four Indiana-Jones-like explorers through dusty Egyptian tombs searching for fortune and glory. We've previously referred to it as "Left 4 Mummies," so hopefully the game will stand up to that exciting but slightly clumsy moniker.