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Army of Two Takes You Into the Heart of Mexico's Drug War in The Devil's Cartel

I didn't see any fist-bumps, but these guys are named Alpha and Bravo, so I expect there will be at least a few "bro!" utterances in there somewhere.

Dec. 7 2012

Posted by: Alex

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These audio sync issues are horseshit, it happens on videos they don't even produce themselves????

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Pretty sure that was Andre "Big Boi" Patton at 0:06

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I liked the first 2... They were ok games and I don't think they warrant all the hatred. But, having strong opinions on games that don't matter is the internet thing to do right?

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@Klei said:

Wait wait wait. Where's Rios and Salem?

I thought one of them dead in 40th day?

but that voice talking about "sending dudes cleap up shitstorm but ended up creating another" sounded like Rios

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This looks like it might entice the kind of douche bag audience they've been courting since the original, but man I don't like the direction theyre going in, and I didn't even really like the other games to begin with.

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Wait wait wait. Where's Rios and Salem?

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Oh man. Another competent third-person shooter in a sea of other competent third-person shooters.

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!

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POR QUE!?!?!?!?!

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I really enjoyed Army of Two 40th Day. I maybe in the minority but hey, each to their own

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I have a weird feeling that this game is going to be ok. I just can't believe they would offer up a third game in this series if they didn't have some real confidence in their ideas. But maybe i'm crazy, this is the same company which buried MOH.

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It feels like EA is only keeping this series alive so they can have a Gears of War rival while forgetting the reasons why Gears was good.

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I was just thinking to myself the other day about another Army of Two game. Surprised they're still making these games though... I didn't think they were popular enough to warrant 3 games.

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So much anger for a beautiful Sunday morning...yawn...

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To heck with the game, I want this trailer to be turned into a Direct to DVD movie starring Luke Goss and Taylor Kitsch with Danny Trejo as the main leader of the Devil's Cartel with Sean Bean randomly hanging around as the super cliche "White Guy Who is Really in Control But Doesn't Want to Get His Hands Dirty."

With Ron Perlman as "Voice of the Army of Two's Superior."

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@MaddProdigy said:

@iAmJohn: Extremely ironic how you consider this series a "joke" and yet you think House of the Dead and Motorstorm are somehow two top-notch series. The reason devs make these games is because people buy them. Same goes for the garbage you consider good. All personal preference.

Translation: I don't like something you posted on the internet. Let me do some internet detective work into the things you like so I can insult them to prove some facile point and make me feel better about myself.

PS: Thanks for getting me the 1,000 Profile Views quest, though!

PPS: I'd venture a guess and say there isn't a single place you will find me saying that I think Motorstorm is a "top notch" series (whatever that means) in spite of how much I really like Pacific Rift and Arctic Edge.

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@iAmJohn: Extremely ironic how you consider this series a "joke" and yet you think House of the Dead and Motorstorm are somehow two top-notch series. The reason devs make these games is because people buy them. Same goes for the garbage you consider good. All personal preference.

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Scripted Sequence: Brown & Bloom Redemption

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Well the people demanded another Army of Two game. I think these people exist in a parallel universe though.

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Oh boy, a winning combination of trivialising real world events and white Americans shooting foreigners, where do I sign up?

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@Krenor said:

@crusader8463 said:

So when will people become enraged that they are only killing Mexicans in Mexico like when RE5 got in trouble for killing black people in Africa?

There's been MANY games set in Mexico where you just kill Mexicans all day, and they seriously don't give 2 shits about any of them.

Well, at least in this case, I expect the politicians bitch about it for 3 days and then forget. Still, the game should do a better job portraying the conflict than Call of Juarez The Cartel.

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@Tennmuerti: I'd love to know the reason why they cut those characters. This is still a sequel to 40th Day after all.

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@Dark_Lord_Spam: No it wasn't.

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WHY

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@ArcLyte: You remember how EA used to butcher every fucking company they could get their hands on? Yeah they're doing that again.

Also this trailer is everything that is wrong with the world. That "permission"-joke was so bad, it nearly killed me.

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I had a decent time playing the first game cooperatively with a buddy, and later with my girlfriend at the time.

Also this game has Split screen COOP, Battlefield 3 does not. I think that's probably why it doesn't look as good as BF3, I also doubt it was given anywhere near the same budget as BF3.

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What... um.

What even is this series anymore?

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Visceral what are you doing.

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I guess I would've been interested in this...many years ago. Now I just skipped it to the end after a minute. On a somewhat related noted, I really hope Insomniac won't end up turning Overstrike as boring as this seemed to be...

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Oh, I get it. Like the Spanish for "uncle."

@adam1808 said:

Wow. What a brown game.

That's racist.

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Nope. Not for me. Don't like the greasy Mexico scenario. Don't like the art direction. Never cared for the franchise. It also looks surprisingly ugly.

That said, Visceral is known for a good 3rd person shooter franchise, albeit in the horror genre, and with the added benefit of the unique and satisfying 'strategic dismemberment' mechanic. Maybe it'll be good regardless, though I'd not bet on it.

Also - between Dead Space 3, Fuse and this - it's definitely the least appealing 3rd person action game from EA, and there's plenty other fish in the sea too.

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@crusader8463 said:

So when will people become enraged that they are only killing Mexicans in Mexico like when RE5 got in trouble for killing black people in Africa?

There's been MANY games set in Mexico where you just kill Mexicans all day, and they seriously don't give 2 shits about any of them.

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So when will people become enraged that they are only killing Mexicans in Mexico like when RE5 got in trouble for killing black people in Africa?

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@Maitimo said:

Now onto the third game and it still feels like they're struggling to find an identity for this series.

They found it in the first game but abandoned it in the second to some extent. Now they're completely ruining it.

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Now onto the third game and it still feels like they're struggling to find an identity for this series.

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that knife kill was pretty boss!!

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That's a really neat way to write Two, I'll give them that!

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@marbleCmoney said:

I have a real soft spot for the first Army of Two. I really hope this one turns out good.

Same here. It was crass and childish and stupid in all the best possible ways. I loved it. Played it several times with my best friend.

I liked the first one almost as much as I hated the second one. 40th day stands as one of the biggest gaming disappointments of this gen for me.

As for this new one, well I just want to know if I can use a diamond plated Desert Eagle or not.

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I have a real soft spot for the first Army of Two. I really hope this one turns out good.

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Man i loved both Army's of Two mainly because of how silly it was with all it's bro moments was my number one co op game to go to with one of my friends just renting it playing it in one sitting!, but this one.. i dunno so amazed they are still pumping these out

and why does this look like poop with frostbite???

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All this trailer needed was some annoying dubstep/hip-hop music and it would have been perfect! Then, some annoying hip-hop stuff started up and I was like, "Oh goody!"

Frostbite 2 made Battlefield 3 look amazing. So why does every developer outside of DICE who uses the engine make their games look so much worse?

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FARTS

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@iAmJohn: yea seriously, who plays this generic garbage?

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Are both Alpha and Bravo white? That seems out of place for the voices...

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I am looking forward to this and Deadspace 3. I enjoy co-op alot more than competitive multiplayer.

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Am I the only one who sees the irony in the tagline "double or nothing"?

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Whooooooooo man, that's some awkward banter right there.

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@Oldirtybearon: I agree. I had a lot of great memories with the AoT series but I always played with friends. From co-op to multiplayer. I didn't really get into the multiplayer in the games but I got all the achievements for the first Army of Two thanks to my friends playing it non stop the week before the server went down. The most fun I had but it wouldn't be the same if it wasn't for my group of friends. If I was playing with random people that multiplayer would be kinda horrible. Me and the same group of friends then went to do the second games multiplayer after that because I never really touched it on the 360 but I did how ever on the PS3. Yes this is one of the few games I owned on multiple platforms. Love or hate this game I play this fun and always have a blast. Its not Gears of War but its still a great game.

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This looks like every other game....

BUT I do think that Army of Two had some really cool co-op concepts as aggro and such. But man...the presentation just turns me of because there don't seem to be much unique stuff here. I hope gameplay will prove me wrong.

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Out of all the games released next year this is the one I am most excited about.

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I really, really like Army of Two. Both of 'em. I've had too much fun playing those games with friends over the years.

Maybe that's why AoT has always gotten a disproportionate amount of hate. You need a friend to really enjoy it.