Earlier this afternoon, Nick Chester and I gave the Army of Two: the 40th Day demo a spin. We didn’t finish it -- two deaths, the lack of guitar support, and the constant wrangling with the cover mechanic combined to frustrate us enough to quit.
But the experience wasn’t without its share of laughs. At one point during the demo we found ourselves stuck in an elevator. Nick asked me, “What, is this Mass Effect or something?” I had missed a message telling me to “upgrade” my weapons, thus the game refused to open the doors. Until I noticed the hint again, we spent our time in the ironclad moving box attempting to fist-bump each other.
In fact, we spent a little too much time dancing around and attempting expressing our bro-love for one another.
If you didn’t guess, this is the Xbox 360 version of the demo. It’s available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace right now, free of charge. You’ll need a pal to play with though, unless you feel like playing with someone random.
What are you thoughts about the demo? Digging it?Not digging it?
Have to try this one out myself, I've been waiting for this game for some odd reason. I'm one of the few who enjoyed and thoroughly beat the first one by myself and with a partner.
the demo is totally ASS. they dumbed down the graphics. the controls are horrible. the game is 90% cut scenes that can't be skipped. they took out the fun from the first game, which was actually fun with 2 people. you can't even start the damn thing without logging in to EA. cutscenes forever. short gun fight with bad controls. cutscenes forver. game freeze after an earthquake. EA montreal: which one of you dumb dumbs thought this would best highlight your game? it's friggin shiite....bro.
First game left such a bad taste I didn't really care when this was announced. Even without this being a full review I know I won't be buying this title.
omg you guys are psychos! lol at the suicide grenade about 20m. I enjoyed what I saw there, cant wait to play it. we gotta love any shooter with splitscreen coop nowdays, they are getting rarer each day.
Sounds about as same as my experience with the first game... I got so frustrated with the stupidity of the game that I quickly gave up. I was really looking forward to a GOOD co-op game and I got this bro-love crap and bad co-op dynamics. Sounds like they haven't improved the game much (and I hated that they used cut scenes for simple climbing animations or ringing a bell... in every other game you can actually do this and it doesn't cut to a cutscene - it all felt so "past gen" to me).
Doos is right. This game is hilarious and a lot of fun to play with a brother for some reason. There was a lot of retarded fist bumping and groin kneeing, but the combat isn't half bad once you make sure not to spam the A button like it's Gears. (The message about customizing was pretty hard to miss - it didn't go anywhere.)
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