Army of two is about two rangers, who after their first mission of watching a mercenary in action are offered a job as one. they decide to join and become mercenaries too.
This game is inventive in the way that you can customise your weapons and armour. This varies from the size of the barrel to pimping your gun to make it look cool (make it gold!). But each one of these add-on's affects your damage, range, magazine cap. and aggro.
This brings me too the most important feature of the game which makes it stand out from most other games. Aggro: this is where the focus of fire is concentrated more on one person. This means they have the "aggro". The reason aggro is important for this game is that your strategy in the game is based mainly around it. For example, if one person takes the "aggro" then the other player can sneak round unnoticed and take the enemy out from behind.
What also interested me in this game is the amount of cooperation that is needed: you can play with and computer but it isn't as good as playing with a friend, so if you like coop's then this is a game for you! With that in mind you also have realistic health, so if you take fire from the front (where most of your armour is) you'll take hardly any damage then if you where shoot from the back. The reason this encourages coop from both characters is because you will always need to watch your back as the intelligent AI will try to flank and kill you from behind. Some parts in the game you will go back-to-back. In this you will take little damage and have enemies coming from all directions. Also there are parts in the game where you handglide. This is where one player shoots while the other directs the handglider, avoiding cliff's and enemy fire.
There are a few extra's they added , which i think are quite good. Firstly you can run up to the enemy and perform a melee move which is different everytime, and secondly you can interact with your partner performing high five's and head butt's.
In my opinion this is a great coop game for any FPS fans and i would recomend it too anyone.
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Advantages: First co-op based game, brilliant game play mechanics Disadvantages: AI as a friend fails to provide the same decisions your friend would make
Chavs 10.03.2008 (10.03.2008)
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