Iron Brigade, formerly titled Trenched, is a 2011 video game, developed by Double Fine Productions, published by Microsoft Studios. Players control a “trench”, a giant war machine that can move about the battlefield as needed. The player’s goal is to protect their base, the ship U.S.S. McKinley from increasingly difficult waves of Monovisions. Though a player’s trench may be disabled by enemy attacks, the player can spend time to repair the machine and continue on; the game is only lost when the base is overrun by the Monovisions (although there are exceptions with some levels, where the objective is to destroy a given object rather than defend one). During the attacks, the player has the ability to ground its trench at a fixed spot, or move about the field to fire on foes.

Iron Brigade System Requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows XP, Vista, or 7
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo at 2 GHz, or AMD Athlon 64 at 2 GHz
  • RAM: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 256 MB NVidia 8800+, ATI 3850+
  • Storage: 1800 MB HD space

Recommended:

  • OS: Windows 7
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.2GHz, or AMD Athlon 64 at 2.2GHz
  • RAM: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 1 GB NVIDIA 200+, ATI 4500+
  • Storage: 1800 MB HD space