Army of Two

Army of Two is a game i have been waiting forever to play. Now that i have played it i must say i am a bit let down. What looked like it was going to be an amazing game is only subpar. First let me say that i really dont like the way the screen is split for split screen. I think this type of game should really have a vertical split but alas it does not.

Now the big draw to this game is its Co-Op. I mean come on thats what the game really is all about. Now one downfall i feel that this game has is it has a pretty steep learning curve. And by that i mean for people who dont tend to play games a whole lot. Team work is so enforced that your punished for doing anything alone. Which is not a total bad thing but at times it really can be. Ive taken the honor of playing this game with a friend who only moderatly games. Let me tell you there are so many times where i wish i could just have him wait some where and run through the level my self.

Now the thing that i really think would of made the whole team work thing better is a better cover system. This game would of been leaps and bounds better if it had a Gears of Wa style cover system. Im gonna be honest even GTA4 has a better cover system then this game. All you do is click a thumb stick to crouch and by crouching you can hide behind things. You cant stick to them like you can in gears. This is one thing the developers really should of spent more time on. There is really no excuse for a game like this that depends so much on cover to have such a lacking cover system.

This game has other gimmiks to like "Back 2 Back" where basicly you stand back to back and take on a horde of bad guys. Its really like a glorified bullet time mode because everything goes all slowmo. I feel this is really rather pointless and really takes away from the flow of the game.

Now one of the things i really like about this game is the "aggro" meter. Atleast i think thats what its called. Names aside its pretty much who ever is firing the most or who ever has the bigger weapon the enemies will focus on. So its pretty good if you need to recover some health and you want them off you back. Or for going in for the sneak attack.

Another thing i think this game did really well is weapon customization. You can pretty much transform your gun into a completely diffrent gun. You can add all diffrent kinds of parts to make it peform better. You can even "pimp" it out to make it look cooler. One of the things that i thought was net is that you can add a shotgun to a assault rifle.

Over all i have to say this game was not what i hoped it would be but its also not too bad. As long as you have a decent team mate things should be fine. The AI does seem a little tough but i think that has alot to do with who i am playing with. Over all i would give this game a 2.5 out of 5. Not terrible but not good either.