Polygon.com / 15.06.25

Dispatch offers something new for superhero video games engaging deskwork

While weve had plenty of superhero games come out over the past decade and a half (and Im always down for more), most have either been open-world adventures or fighting games. Im as excited as anyone for the upcoming Marvel Tkon and Invincible VS, but Im also ready for a little something different. Thats where Dispatch from AdHoc Studio comes in. Dispatch is a game made for people who enjoy watching a rerun of The Office as a palate cleanser after the bloody battles of Invincible. So, me. Youre cast as Robert Robertson, the former superhero known as Mecha Man. He has to step away from frontline superheroics as the mech suit he relied on was destroyed in battle. Needing a job, he starts work at a dispatch center for superheroes, and the demo takes you through a small, 30-minute chunk of his first day. Youll notice Dispatchs crude humor early on. The first thing you can do in Dispatch is give a colleague a bro fist at a urinal, and the juvenile jokes dont stop there. Middle school boys a...
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