A Gears of War tempter, helping us keep busy for GoWII - it's good for the price it is now.
Army of Two does the job of entertaining us 3rd person, co-op shooters. However it does leave you in a mess sometimes when your AI is dragging you through a field of bullets, healing you next to a yellow suited goon, or just refuses to follow your orders.
Visuals: 8.5
Sound: 7.0
Gameplay: 8.0
Replay: 6.0
Now you take charge of one of two characters. A butch guy who is made of medal and has a strange thing of bringing in morals when they annoy the crap out of most players. The other guy is a dark haired Brad Pitt wannabe. He is often a nancy and get's picked on by the big guy. Either way, they play the same.
Now let me scrub from the record real quick. I played Mercenaries recently, meaning, my first time playing it was two months or so ago. Before this I thought Army of Two was stupid in so many ways, namely because you PIMP YOUR WEAPONS.
You know what though, once you play the game and begin using the arsenal given to you, the pimping of weapons is actually pretty cool and something to laugh about while playing with your buddy.
You get to choose your path of what weapons you wish to use, purchase, and upgrade. The upgrades make HUGE DIFFERENCES in the game, however did anyone else notice that the fully upgraded AK-47 is the cheapest gun to fully upgrade in ratio to it's power?
I will tell you right now, the balancing of weapons is pointless as any smart man will use only basic assault rifles until they can fully upgrade the PKM (which is hands down the best rifle for power, accuracy, and payload).
The game is pretty decent in all aspects. The game has levels you will want to play over and over and the game is for the most part pretty easy. I beat it on all levels and on the hardest level it was just the right amount of challenging. Beatable, but made you use patience over metal.
Your partner if you fail to have friends, will be controlled by simple D-Pad: Advance, Hold, Regroup. And between subtle and hostile. It works pretty well, but you will realize that advance only means, advance a few feet. While at other times they will advance the entire scale of the level. The AI is built pretty well for what I expected, but you will wonder if your partner is Helen Keller. Aside from that you can do the gears of war thing and heal each other, but with a catch. The bonus is you can drag your player around and your player can shoot if you're down. Both can shoot a while moving(ed). This makes for some cool Lt Dan scenes. However, if you're down, you had better hope you died in a neat tidey spot, because if not, your AI partner will go in the most strange places to heal you and probably just get your killed. Playing with a partner though, makes this game a full point higher!
The best thing about this game is the introduction to Aggro. At the top of your screen is an Aggro meter that shows who is getting the attention. It literally makes you invisible, allowing you to move across the map wiping out baddies.
Ontop of this creation is Overkill which makes one player deal x2 damage and the other one INVISIBLE for a handful of seconds. You can basically wipe out entire squads as even if you melee down opponents in a group, none will notice if your partner is in overkill.
The game lacks in length, overall level design and AI completion. However the game makes up for it's mistakes with an entertaining pair of characters, aggro basics, gun upgrading, and it's very well done graphics. I suggest picking this game up, or at the least, borrow/play with a friend at his place. It is worth checking out if you're a GoW fan. If you don't like Third Person shooters, you will love this game.