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"Don't be a T.O.O.L., enlist today!"

Gun Bros is a 2010 Top-Down Shoot 'Em Up available for free on phones running iOS or Android. A lower-quality version can be found on Facebook. A sequel was also released in 2013.

It's The Future, and the evil forces of T.O.O.L. are on a mission of galactic conquest! But never fear, the Gun Bros, agents of F.R.A.G.G.E.D., are on the job, huge guns in hand and cigar chomped firmly in mouth.

The player controls either Percy Gun or Francis Gun and proceeds to lay waste to hordes of Mooks, accompanied by the AI using whichever brother not picked. The player uses twin touch-based "thumbsticks" to control movement and shooting, respectively. The player can equip two different guns and switch between them at will, and use "Smartillery" powerups when things get ugly.

The game is divided up into waves, 50 per mission, or "revolution". Each world contains multiple revolutions, and there are multiple worlds. Each successive wave, revolution or world yields greater rewards but also tougher foes. You earn Experience Points and glowing purple Xplodium crystals as you play. Leveling Up increases your maximum health, and you can increase the Xplodium you receive by clearing waves without taking any damage, thus increasing your "Xplodium multiplier". Dying resets this multiplier but not your overall progress- you can begin from the last wave you reached. When you return to the menu, you can then refine your Xplodium for cash to purchase new guns, armor and powerups.

The game can be connected to your Facebook account, which allows you to recruit your friends' Bros to aid you in battle, thus replacing the default AI bro who is stuck with starting gear. Doing so also earns you bonuses. There are also daily challenges for rewards, asking that you Play Every Day.

Gun Bros provides examples of:

  • Abnormal Ammo: Any weapon that is within the Special categories, including:
    • The TK 99 Buzzsaw, which fires 3 homing buzzsaw blades at a time;
    • The Machette mayhem, which fires machete like blades instead of the usual plasmas or bullets;
    • The Shurikannon, which “scatters high-velocity, plasma-laced shurikens across the battlefield"
    • The Deuce Dropper X90, which deploys an unlimited number of mines at any given time, the mines do though, have a limited lifetime, and will begin exploding after it is complete;
    • The Parasite: which shoots semi-homing parasitical, scorpion-like creatures;
    • The super scorcher and Ion Blaze, which are basically short-ranged flamethrower.
  • Action Bomb: The T.O.O.L. suicide bombers. They've been tortured into insanity by their helmet video feeds endlessly looping romantic comedies.
  • Action Girl: The gun wielding, bikini clad allies or “babes” on the planets Yeroc Sima can be “rescued”. In return, they will assist the players in dealing with the enemies for a certain period of time before leaving. Most of their weapons, while similar to the ones in store, are heavily modified to the point where each burst fired is enough to shred through multiple enemies at once.
  • Attack Its Weak Point:
    • Flame-wielding Mooks are heavily armored in the front, but vulnerable from behind.
    • Similarly, the sluggish tank units, while heavily armored at the front, is vulnerable at the back.
    • Most of the Crab type enemies will instantly flip for a few seconds upon being hit with any weapon, rendering them mostly useless. The only upside is that their armor could tank more than a few hits from low level weapons before finally going down, making them a somewhat useful pseudo-barrier for ranged T.O.O.L units earlier in the game.
  • BFG:
    • Your starting pistols, the Whippersnappers, are bigger then the Bros' heads and they just get bigger from there.
    • The update added the Kraken missile launcher which seems to be the ultimate end all be all gun, which costs 1400 warbucks, which would take ages to earn through challenges, and if you were to buy warbucks for it, it would cost around $200. The description is epic, though.
      "If annihilation had a portrait, it would be of you, holding this gun, screaming, as every living enemy within a mile as vaporized in an instant, leaving behind only smoldering boots, a T.O.O.L. helmet, and regret."
  • Bash Brothers: You play as two brothers trying to stop evil aliens from conquering the galexy.
  • Chainsaw Good: The Bros can use the a circular Buzzsaw weapon, while Haven's basic enemy, the Buzzkill, uses a chainsaw.
  • Cool Shades: The Slick Shades, which combined with the rest of the Slick gear turns your Bro into a super spy.
  • Crapsack World: literally any planet that is either overrun by zombies or taken over by T.O.O.L, with Yeroc Sima perhaps being a minor exception, with most of its oceans and greenery remaining mostly intact.
  • Death from Above: You can call in various forms of support strikes, ranging from the "Shock and Awesome" air strike, to an orbital beam from F.R.A.G.G.E.D. HQ, to a full-on nuclear strike.
  • Deflector Shield: The "Green Shield" power-up protects your bro by teleporting incoming fire into Another Dimension. Exactly which, they're not sure, but "they can't be happy about it."
  • Double Entendre: The word tool is usually used to describe someone with low intelligence or lacks the mental capacity to know he is being used. Considering the fact that T.O.O.L is a galactic sized army which treats its soldiers like disposable “tools”, the acronym is not too surprising. Even on the battlefield, most of the units themselves, with a few exceptions, are not that intelligent either, as evident by them charging headfirst at the player instead of using cover, relying on suppressive fire or even bothering to cover their weakpoints. Case in point, the majority of said enemies, at least earlier on, are poorly armored mechanical or biological soldiers armed only a bladed weapon, a measly single-shot blaster or a suicide vest. Not surprisingly, using their superior number and the overwhelming firepower from higher end units are two of the few ways for them to actually defeat the players. It is fortunate that F.R.A.G.G.E.D for whatever reasons only send out 2 operatives at a time to deal with the infestation.
  • Drivento Madness: The Kamikaze and its variants are subject to constant mental torture to the point where they would joyously commit suicide upon seeing the player. Whether they volunteer or are just prisoners being forced to become unwilling cannon-fodders is anyone’s guess.
  • Elite Mook:
    • Most of the enemies from the planet Ceres 2, with some exceptions, are just slightly reskinned enemies from Cerberus Prime with double the amount of health and increased damage output.
    • The titular enemy and its variants can be considered as a spiritual successor to the normal Grunt; having somewhat similar behavioral pattern while possessing significantly enhanced speed, health and firepower.
  • EMP: the Sphire on the planet Haven, upon interacted by the players, can generate a high-intensity EMP burst that manages to halve the speed of the T.O.O.L units while leaving the Bros mostly unaffected.
  • Energy Weapon: Several guns, like most spread guns and the Energy Gauntlet weapon, as well as the newly added laser gun.
  • Evolving Weapon: Guns acquire "mastery" as you use them, Leveling up three times total, each conferring and experience bonus and an increased chance to deal Critical Hits.

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