Army of Two First Impressions

I rented Army of Two and just finished the first couple levels so I’m just going to give early my impression of the game. My full review should be up in a few days after I’ve completed the game.

The game starts out with a skull on the screen and a rough sounding man yelling at you. Yes, it was as strange as it sounds. He explains the Aggro system to you and proceeds to tell you to go “kick some ass”. Duly noted sir. After this strange beginning, the game began on a normal track. You do a training mission and then your dropped into a real mission and the game begins.

From the hour or so I’ve played it, I’ve come to a few conclusions. First of all, I think the actual shooting is not that fun. It is really bland and with the plethora of great shooters out why would you pick an average one. The cover system is okay, but I’ve not been able to get into cover multiple times. Maybe these two aspects of the game will get better as I progress to further levels, but I highly doubt it. The graphics are good, but not spectacular and the storyline has been average so far.

The co-op portion of the game is nowhere close to what it was hyped up to be. The Aggro meter seems like a good concept, but so far it has just been gimmicky. The back to back feature is only available in certain areas, which detracts from the experience.

My conclusion from this small impression is that this game is a very average, normal game. So far, it has not jumped from the status quote very far and it has definetly not lived up to what I thought it would be: a co-op shooter where you have to work with your teammate to strategically kill enemies and give each other cover etc. So far it has just been a plain shooter with a few co-op gimmicks in it. Hopefully, it gets better.