This time he sports a bushy lip-warmer and suffers from a Charlie Brooker perma-grump. Set a few years after the first game, it sees Spencer – the man with the worst case of claw hand in medical history – return to tackle a Castro-esque dictator.
Two-and-a-bit years later, fellow Scandinavians Fatshark are in charge for the sequel. A pair of unremarkable film tie-ins later, GRIN was sadly shuttered. Even a staggering climax (spoilerphobes, look away now) that saw hero Nathan Spencer headbutt his nemesis to death in mid-air – after discovering his bionic arm was actually his dead wife, of course – wasn't enough to save it from flopping. The side-scroller's success completely overshadowed the team's full-fat franchise reboot, which launched nine months later to critical grumblings that it wasn't as good as the 2D game.
One of the more popular retro remakes of recent years, Bionic Commando Rearmed eventually became something of a poisoned chalice for Swedish developer GRIN.
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