Army Of Two on Xbox 360

Average rating: 66%

from 4,177 members

90 Members' reviews

Certificate:
User collections:	Need an XBox 360 gamerpoints boost?, Best 360 Games 2007-2008, kevin
Developers:	EA MONTREAL
Format:	Xbox 360
Released:	14/03/2008
Also Available on:

Brief synopsis of Army Of Two

Never go into battle alone! EA's new next-gen boutique development studio is changing the face of how people will play games. Delivering a groundbreaking strategic 3rd person co-op shooter unparalleled in the action genre, EA Montreal's Army Of Two focuses on gameplay centered around two man missions, two man strategies, two man tactics and a two man advantage

Today, the United States is awarding an unprecedented number of contracts to Private Military Corporations (PMC) in an effort to maintain its presence worldwide. Since the Vietnam War, this number has increase ten fold and is only rising. As the clear cut flow of the chain of command blurs and the military responsibilities of a nation slipping out of its own control, it is getting hard to tell who really holds the power.

As ex-Army Rangers now turned contractors for a PMC, Army Of Two challenges you to fight along side your team-mate on missions developing and using the combined skills necessary to become the deadliest two man military outfit. Whether with a live player or Army Of Two's unique partner AI, Army Of Two delivers a revolutionary new way to play an action shooter.

Related

Kameo: Elements of Power

Condemned

Alone in the Dark

our price: £9.93

Frontlines - Fuel Of War

our price: £12.93

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas

Members' Reviews

Reviews Voted Most Helpful

Another rushed EA game

A customer from Leeds , 07/03/2008

Single player with the AI is impossible due to the limited control, trying to tell the AI team mate to move around while you're holding the aggro is impossible as you can only tell them to move forward. If you didn't like the repetitive nature of Assassins Creed stay clear of this game.

The single player campaign is around 5 hours long and if you use the CO-OP feature you'll complete the game in less than 4 hours (yes it's really that short).

Overall the game feels like yet another rushed out of the door EA game with too many scripted moments. The multiplayer *might* keep you playing for a few weeks.

25 out of 26 people found this review helpful

Report offending content.

Read all reviews

Most Recent Reviews

Only for two

Merik from Pontypridd [Highly rated reviewer] , 30/04/2008

It is important to note that the 5 stars that I have given are dependent on playing this game with a friend in co-op mode.

Army of TWO is a highly enjoyable over the shoulder shooter that brings together ideas from other games and knits them together make a very entertaining game.

Following two soldiers, who being fed up of life as a common soldier join a private security contractor and become mercenaries for hire, carnage ensues.

The plot of this game is not that complex, but it is told well. You may not be surprised by anything that happens, but that dosn't stop it from eing good fun. the game sends you a series of missions round the world that mean the environment and enemies change, keeping things interesting. The style of story and presentation of missions like this, I found very reminiscent of Soldier of Fortune.

The actual gameplay is similar to Gears of War but is much better. You have the same over the shoulder view point although unlike Gears of War I never had a problem seeing round by man. There is a similar use of cover , when you get wounded your team mate has to come and patch you up, excpet when you are down and wounded you can still shoot from the floor and your team mate must drag you to a safe area to patch you up. You use money from your missions to buy additional weaponry or upgrade and customize the ones that you have.

The biggest addition however is the introduction of 'Aggro'. Players of Massivly Multplayer Online games will probably be familiar with the concpet, but for those of you who arn't. Aggro is a measure of how much attention the enemies will give you and there fore who they shall focus theree attacks on. This simple conecpt opens up the co-op game play and makes it truly co-operative game play.

I played through Gears of War with my friend in co-op play, it was fun. but although we fought along side each other there was never any real need to co-ordinate our actions. In Army of Two, you really work together, one player drawing their attention, and their fire, to allow the other player to move foward to a flanking position. It does not sound like much but it really makes a big difference to gameplay.

Graphically this game does look good, not the best, but good enough. Still images of these game don't realy do it justice, because they don't show movement. The way the enemies move about, and particularly how they die looks brilliant. I have found in games recently that too often wherever you shoot someone they more or less die the same way. In Army of Two when you shoot a guy in the feet it blows his legs out from under him. Shoot him in the face and he'll somersalt backwards. Not super-realistic, but super stylish.

When I played Gears of War with my friend, we completed it and said 'that was fun'.

When I played Army of Two with the same friend we completed it, and immediately started it again.

Bad points, The Single player mode is bad, the AI just dosn't work. The game is also a bit short. but when your talking about renting a game that's not a problem.

So if you have a friend to play with, this game is a must, rent it and play over a weekend. I did and I plan to play it a lot more.