Think The Invincibles meets The Office for superhero workplace comedy Dispatch, which dropped a new trailer at Fanfest today ahead of its impending release on PC and PS5. Created by some of the folks behind Telltale’s Tales from the Borderlands and The Wolf Among Us, it’s all about managing ex-supervillains turned superheroes, from behind a desk, navigating work relationships and quietly nursing plans for vengeance.
The first two episodes of the anarchic adventure will be released on October 22, followed by two episodes a week until the final two on November 12. Until then, the latest trailer is a tantalizing blast of what’s to come when the game releases a week from now, where your goal is to manage the logistics of which superheroes tackle which emergencies, matching their unique skills and quirks to the situation, all while managing the relationships around you through dialogue and critical decisions. There’s a real streak of dark humor to it all too, which will hit home for anyone who has had an office job and difficult co-workers before. Whether or not one of them was a giant bat.
And yes, that’s the voice of Aaron Paul of Breaking Bad fame as main character Robert Robertson, stuck as a dispatcher while the suit that made him then superhero Mecha Man is rebuilt. Joining Paul are also a cast of voice actors that includes Jeffrey Wright (Westworld, The Last of Us), Laura Bailey (Uncharted, The Last of Us Part II) and Seán McLoughlin (jacksepticeye). You can wishlist the game for PC on Steam now.
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Rachel Weber is the Senior Editorial Director of Games at IGN and an elder millennial. She’s been a professional nerd since 2006 when she got her start on Official PlayStation Magazine in the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, horror movies, horror games, and French Bulldogs. Those extra wrinkles on her face are thanks to going time blind and staying up too late finishing every sidequest in RPGs like Fallout and Witcher 3.