Schizophrenic, borderline homosexual, irreverent and offensive if taken seriously, funny and easy to hang out with if you’re drunk, Army of Two is as delightfully confused as a zebra about its color!!!
The idea behind the game is pretty simple – players can join forces with a friend in the very same room, online or with the computer to take the roles of the muscle-bound, hockey-masked Salem and Rios. These two work for a private military mercenary contractor and carry out missions in real-world conflicts modeled on Somalia and Iraq as well as in fictional conflicts in Miami and China, all the while pummeling themselves through scores of bad guys, uncover secret personal and civic betrayal and managing never to lose their third-grade sense of humor.
Though most of these special moves don’t make much difference to the game but there is enough variety to keep the otherwise drab levels interesting. Unfortunately, the game is both too short and artificially lengthened by ridiculous numbers of enemies. The actual levels usually consist of one or two large battlefields that are somehow always have that “extra quota” of bad guys. The game might take around six hours to finish, but that figure doesn’t reflect the hoards of bad guys that make each level painfully long.
The only other bummer is that the game does not support a LAN connection, the split-screen option works fine, as does connecting with a friend on Xbox Live. The computer A.I. however, is unfortunate. No matter how hard you try, the computer player will not flank enemies, which means about half of the game’s central mechanic is lost. The online versus game is way more interesting and exciting.
A very weirdly nice game which SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY!!!
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