Marcus Mattsson

Army of Two is a third-person shooter focusing on cooperative strategies, which is what kind of peaked my interest. Now I’ve been playing the co-op campaign with my roommate for about six hours, and I have no idea how we made it that far. This game has so many unforgivable mistakes. First of all, it’s centered around an aggro/invisibility-system, where one player takes aggro and the other player flanks. This doesn’t really work, and most of the time it’s easier to just rush and spray. Then you try to save, but the system feels like it should load the game a campaign earlier before that long cut scene you had already seen but still can’t skip. What still held us mildly hooked was the weapon system, making it possible to buy more weapons and upgrades. But after playing for two hours we could already buy the biggest weapons in the game, just in time to realize they were totally useless. Who the hell wants to run around with a minigun or a huge grenade launcher when the cheap AK-47 is much more effective? And then there’s the fucking AI. The enemy soldiers act like they’re on speed and spent most of their time jumping over crates to run right past you. Finally you have these ridiculous back-to-back sequences where you stand, you guessed it, back-to-back and have to shoot some bad guys in slow-motion. This happens whenever the two players are in a particularly tight spot, because standing in the middle of nowhere is the most efficient way to kill people. The worst part; this game has a 74% rating on Metacritic.