Random question: is there a single moment in the game that stands out for you, beyond maybe the laughably ridiculous final boss battle? No spoilers, but it was almost a mean-spirited kick in the nuts to the earlier games.ĭANIEL: Hmm… I never thought of that it way, but then, I never thought much about anything beyond, “Why are there so many invisible walls everywhere?” “Why is Steve’s character glitching so much?” and “What the heck does TWO stand for?” (I Googled it – apparently it’s an acronym for Trans-World Organization). Plus, the heavily telegraphed “twist” with the main villain annoyed me a bit.
But the characters are dull, the environments are forgettable and the story is beyond boring. STEVE: Yeah, the actual gunplay is pretty satisfying. I’m also a sucker for destructible environments, and thanks to EA’s Frostbite 2 engine, it was hella fun tearing through enemy cover to get to the blood-filled meatbags cowering behind stuff. We used to spend half our time punching each other in the head, just because we could!ĭANIEL: Taking out the air-guitaring is almost unforgivable, but to throw the game a bone, obliterating enemies in Overkill mode – which makes the player an invincible, slow-motion killing machine for a limited amount of time – never got old. STEVE: I can’t believe they took out the high-fiving, air-guitaring and all the other awesomely dumb interactions. After sitting through the forced seriousness in The Devil’s Cartel, it’s clear that silliness is what made its predecessors such a blast. Although I had a lot of fun with the first couple of Army of Two games, I remember giving them a hard time for being so over-the-top and goofy. No tandem sniping, no back-to-back circle shootouts, hardly any opportunities to split up and properly flank enemies. Too bad the developers took out almost everything else that made these games such great co-op experiences. STEVE: Yeah, being able to customize your mask is one new thing about The Devil’s Cartel, and I think my blood-splattered clown face turned out really well. At least my guy – Bravo – was cooler than yours.ĭANIEL: You mean my flower-themed mask didn’t up my cool-factor enough to make me the player of choice in The Devil’s Cartel? At least the masks gave us a hint of uniqueness and originality in a sea of seemingly never-ending gun battles that were as generic as your Gap-inspired tactical gear. Instead, we’ve got a couple of generic noobs with the incredibly creative codenames of Alpha and Bravo. Except it turns out you don’t actually play as Salem and Rios this time around. STEVE: I was excited to jump into The Devil’s Cartel and once again be the Rios to your Salem. Warning: Trailer contains coarse language. So naturally we were eager to wade back into the fray with the recently released Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel.Įxcept things didn’t go exactly as we hoped.
We shot, flanked and high-fived our way through the game playing as a co-op team, and then did it again two years later for the sequel, Army of Two: The 40th Day. My buddy, coworker and fellow games scribbler Daniel Barron and I tried EA Montreal’s original Army of Two on a whim back in 2008, and discovered it was a blast to step into the boots of pair of mercenary dudebros armed with high-tech goalie masks, over-the-top weapons and endless reserves of testosterone. “We hope you have gotten many hours of enjoyment out of the games and we appreciate your ongoing patronage.The old man in The Legend of Zelda knew what was up when he said, “It’s dangerous to go alone.” Because really, it’s always more fun with friends. “We would rather our hard-working engineering and IT staff focus on keeping a positive experience for the other 99 percent of customers playing our more popular games,” the statement continued. The company said the number of customers wanting to play older games online dwindles as newer titles are released, and it is not financially feasible to operate servers for games played by fewer than one percent of online players. “The development teams and operational staff pour their hearts into these games almost as much as the customers playing them and it is hard to see one retired.” “The decisions to retire older EA games are never easy,” EA said in a statement. The “Madden NFL 10” and “NHL 10” servers will be shut down on Oct. 11, along with several older sports titles, including entries in EA’s “NCAA Football,” “NCAA Basketball” and “Tiger Woods PGA Tour” franchises.
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Servers for “Army of Two,” “Skate,” the Xbox 360 version of “Battlefield 2: Modern Combat” and the PlayStation Portable version of “Need for Speed Undercover” will be shut down on Aug. Video game publisher Electronic Arts (EA) said Tuesday that it plans to turn off server operations for several of its titles, ending players’ ability to play the games online with other people.
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