Army of Two

Tachikoma · Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 1099 Location: Swansea, UK

The wife did not let me down Gorfy, I unwrapped Army of Two a few minute ago Smile

Am popping down to Cardiff for the day so will be on with it tonight if you happen to have bought it?

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CrystolMethod · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 190 Location: Gloucester

Lol, dont unwrap it! Refund it while you can!!
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Gorfinkle · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject:

Not bought it yet, a litttle skint this month, £300 new xbox, £40 MOT, Mrs Gorf's birthday coming up, so gonna have to wait until April Sad

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CrystolMethod · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 190 Location: Gloucester

Oh you let down Sad

Army of Two is decent for about 6 hours play of co-op, the game only has the replayability for achievements, things like the cover system is broke for example your guy is right handed if you want to take cover on something and look to the left you cant because your guy is a spastic.
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Tachikoma · Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 1099 Location: Swansea, UK

I personally really like it.
The main story on medium difficulty s 20 hours or so (if you take into account deaths...a lot of deaths!) and there is plenty of replay as you need to do missions to make money to buy and upgrade weapons.
Speaking of weapons, there are:
PRIMARY WEAPONS
HK36 AR
AK47 AR
S-SYSTEM AR
M3 SUPER 90 SHOTGUN
FSPS-12 SHHOTGUN
AUG AR
M49 SAW LMG
PKM LMG
FELIN-2C AR
DAD-X AUTO SHOTGUN
M134 MINIGUN
MGL MK-X GRENADE LAUNCHER

SECONDARY WEAPONS
M92 ELITE II PISTOL
SOCOM ML.23 PISTOL
SKORPION MP
MP-11A1 MP
G18C AUTO-PISTOL
MP5K MP
DEAGLE
.44 MODEL 29 PISTOL
P90 AR
MP7 MP

SPECIAL WEAPONS
M14 SNIPER
MSG-90 SNIPER
DSR-1 SNIPER
SVD (DRAGANOV) SNIPER
M107 LIGHT 50 (BARRETT) SNIPER
RPG-7 VI
F1M92 STINGER

Each character also has about 10 purchasable helmets and 3 types of armour.
There are 2 other weapons available via a code which I am currently trying to obtain and a promise of loads more to come!
Each weapon has grade possibilities ranging from new barrels, mounts, suppressors shields, stocks, magazines, shields, paint jobs etc...
So there is loads of possibilities here and characters play with one of each group of weapons...
Cover system is sensible in my eyes. Yes they are right handed so you can only really lean out the right but this has never been an issue for me as you can blind fire left and pop over cover...it works a heckuva lot like GoW with slides to cover etc.
Also you have coop modes like Back to Back where you stand back to back and slowly take out everyone around you and have infinite ammo at that point. Also there is coop snipe where you time attacks to give the enemy no warning.
All in all I really like it, and I was one who was saying it was gonna suck before it came out!
Finished it once on easy (unlocked all basic Primary Weapons for that) and now working through on medium...
Oh and yes there is online Versus of team versus team and online/split screen coop as well as replay on missions in any order which also allows you to gain more money!
Incidentally, versus gains money too but that money works like on Counterstrike to buy weapons for online play Smile

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Imshall · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject:

C&C expansion and now this..... looks like Lost Odyssey will have to wait Sad

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Holy_Donut · Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 733 Location: Timbuktu.

Most people I asked said around 5-6 hours to complete it, in my opinion, that's a rental.
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Tachikoma · Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 1099 Location: Swansea, UK

Well to be honest I am soo damned good at gaming it took me 12 minutes to finish it and that is with all achievements and unlockables.

Course that aint true and is the exact same reason why I never listed to anyone who says they finished a 20 hour game in 6 as they are the self same people who complain that Mass Effect and Oblivion both only took 10 hours to finish.
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Holy_Donut · Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 733 Location: Timbuktu.

Well Crystol's said it, two other people on my friends list says the campaign is about 5 hours long, and it's doubtful that 3/4 people I asked who have it are lying about it.
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Tachikoma · Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 1099 Location: Swansea, UK

well I can only go from my own experience and I played coop online on professional with a random guy last night.
We managed 3 missions in 6 hours.
So I guess everyone else must just be better than me Confused

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haeZen · Joined: 21 Sep 2006 Posts: 772 Location: oh hai thar!!111

It's ok Ryan, your still in shock from getting prawned by a 10 yr old. Very Happy

haeZen,
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CrystolMethod · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 190 Location: Gloucester

On recruiter - which is lowest level mode, a level takes you about 45 mins MAX and thats being generous.. You rarely ever die, if anything your team mate or you gets downed a cuple of times from messing around or getting brave..

On professional it takes about 12-15 hours.. But about 8 of them hours are painfull pissing off because professional requires you to use game mechanices such as cover which are broken

Your guy is right handed so if he is in cover and wants to aim left he has to expose his whole body :S

They have copied every game with everything and failed at it, from swinging your grenade shows the gears way of displaying it's landing area, if a grenade lands near you, it's got the cod HUD display, if you get shot it uses the COD Hud Display, they tried to do the cover system like gears but they mixed it with rainbowsix in a way which really messed it up and they tried to me weapons editable like rainbow six, but the weapons just modify the look and damage or accuracy or agro, no cool sights or anything, zooming in down the barrel just slightly let's you see further or like zooms in kinda thing and the cross hair goes smaller, the sniper is crap you get 20 bullets and to get them back is extremely hard from ammo drops, you get 1 RPG bullet unles you get a drop which is really hard to obtain again, you need to get 1 mil cash from the campaign which means you just need to do the last level around 15 times each which is pathetic, online you need to earn 1 billion and currently the best online player in the world has 175 million?

Tell me thats not fail :S

Frontlines pl0x! Thankyou for saving me nooby callum by being the meat shield and ordering this cump of a game.
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Tachikoma · Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 1099 Location: Swansea, UK

Holy_Donut · Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 733 Location: Timbuktu.

You can't trust an EA game. You just can't, I learnt this the hard way with BF2:MC.
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