Best Co-Op game ever played.
The AI is quite advanced, whether its your partner when your playing a single-player campaign, or its the enemies that you have to take down. However, you will find it occassionally annoying when in the middle of a gunfight, they run around in a circle for some reason. But this isnt a big issue as it barely happens. Your orders that you can give to your AI partner during gameplay is essential to your survival. A shame that the orders dont go any further than 'advance', 'cover' etc. But all the same, very effective when these actions are deployed. Obviously when your playing a public (online) or private (offline) multiplayer game, this isnt an issue.
A nice little touch for purposes of humour is added with how you can interact with your partner by complimenting their work by either a hand-shake or a 'Bill and Ted-esque' air-guitar stand-off. Or you could just be a dick and slap your partner across the back of the head or head-butt him when your not happy with what he's done. Yet chances are, your gonna get the same right back.
Ofcorse one aspect that is highlighted in this game and is arguably the one reason why you even have that minor chance of actually completing a mission, is 'Aggro'. Basically, the more death, destruction, and skill you cause in a short amount of time, your 'Aggro-meter' rises, and whoever has the higher 'Aggro' will attract the attention of the enemies. This will allow the partner to stealthly go amongst the enemies and pick them off whilst their attention is distracted. It can be either your AI that has the 'Aggro' and allows you to stealth amongst the enemies, or vice-versa. This is definately alot of fun and saves a hell of alot of time trying to get past a vast number of heavily armed terrorists in one go.
You maybe thinking that there is alot to take in as far as the controls and actions are concerned. However thats OK, even for the novice gamers. Because the tutorial at the beginning of the game pretty much covers everything you need to know in the simplest way possible.
The plot-twists within the game are very politics driven, and is very intriguing as the gameplay consists of being in the middle of 'real-life' war-torn countries, including Afghanistan and Iraq. Really lives up to the realism of war and doesnt exaggerates.
To be fair, the campaign mode is very short. But isnt a problem as once you complete the game; you have the 'professional' difficulty to complete, allowing you to unlock EVERY weapon that you can possibly have in your disposal within the game. Talking about weapons; you can buy new weapons with the money you make from your campaign missions. Not only that, but you can customise them to make them more accurate, destructive etc. From AK47's and Desert Eagles, to the M134 (Chaingun) and Stinger Missile Launchers, you can customise the lot to overwhelm the enemy.
Even when your done doing all of that, there is, ofcorse, the online multiplayer. Put it this way, its the ONLY game online that is going to pull yourself off the online gaming of COD4 and UT3. Many game modes to try out including the conventional 'Deathmath' mode. You can most definately approve when I say that Army of Two is a long lasting game.
Graphics are top-notch. Lighting and attention to detail is just brilliant. The sound is just the same and sounds like your really in the middle of a war zone.
Innovative and revolutionary to the whole idea of co-op gaming... well deserved to be one of the biggest PS3 titles of 2008 to date, well... until MGS4 and GTA4 arrives at least.