there was a coop shooter called army of two. The mechanics were kinda fun, you could lift your buddy over a wall to shoot and lower him back down to reload and stuff like that.
The dialogue could pass for a parody of 2000s dude bro culture if it wasn’t being played straight and ridden with slurs.
With the dialogue, It’s toxic masculinity the game. Say fucked up shit, do violence, fist bump while cracking a joke that’s only funny if the audience is a case deep in natty light and probably skipping class in the morning.
The story is incredibly poor as well and probably problematic (can’t be assed to look up the plot), so removing the mission briefings would also improve it.
Despite all that, if taken devoid of context the raw mechanics had potential. An inverse of spec ops: the line, a game carried entirely by the narrative choices and message, but dragged down by run of the mill mechanics.
The suppressing fire mechanic was kind of interesting. It worked like an aggro meter and when maxed out one player was all but invisible to the enemies while the other one was drawing all the attention.
It had strong gun customization for a console shooter at the time. Lots of cosmetic choices as well. It handled competently, the movement was weighty when dragging a downed ally behind cover.
Apparently the sequel improved the mechanics, but I never played it. Maybe they fixed the writers room.
The second game was filled with “moral choices” that were very clearly designed to fuck with you, the very first one being “Do you betray the mercenary who helped you?”
If you betray him, he dies, you get a cutscene where his family is sad at his funeral
If you don’t betray him, he takes his money, abandons his family and goes to Tahiti where he’s sipping a Mai Tai on the beach when a frog man comes out of the water and shoots him
Army of Two is a name I never thought I’d hear again. A friend of mine worked on that game.
It was his first, and last, video game job. The multi-month crunch prior to release was followed by downsizing. Very cool. We lost touch, but last I heard he scored a gig as a radio DJ somewhere.
there was a coop shooter called army of two. The mechanics were kinda fun, you could lift your buddy over a wall to shoot and lower him back down to reload and stuff like that.
The dialogue could pass for a parody of 2000s dude bro culture if it wasn’t being played straight and ridden with slurs.
With the dialogue, It’s toxic masculinity the game. Say fucked up shit, do violence, fist bump while cracking a joke that’s only funny if the audience is a case deep in natty light and probably skipping class in the morning.
The story is incredibly poor as well and probably problematic (can’t be assed to look up the plot), so removing the mission briefings would also improve it.
Despite all that, if taken devoid of context the raw mechanics had potential. An inverse of spec ops: the line, a game carried entirely by the narrative choices and message, but dragged down by run of the mill mechanics.
The suppressing fire mechanic was kind of interesting. It worked like an aggro meter and when maxed out one player was all but invisible to the enemies while the other one was drawing all the attention.
It had strong gun customization for a console shooter at the time. Lots of cosmetic choices as well. It handled competently, the movement was weighty when dragging a downed ally behind cover.
Apparently the sequel improved the mechanics, but I never played it. Maybe they fixed the writers room.
They did not improve the writing
The second game was filled with “moral choices” that were very clearly designed to fuck with you, the very first one being “Do you betray the mercenary who helped you?”
If you betray him, he dies, you get a cutscene where his family is sad at his funeral
If you don’t betray him, he takes his money, abandons his family and goes to Tahiti where he’s sipping a Mai Tai on the beach when a frog man comes out of the water and shoots him
They only got weirder from there
that sounds hilarious. if it was on pc and had online co-op i’d play that with a friend
Army of Two is a name I never thought I’d hear again. A friend of mine worked on that game.
It was his first, and last, video game job. The multi-month crunch prior to release was followed by downsizing. Very cool. We lost touch, but last I heard he scored a gig as a radio DJ somewhere.
I remember those games being the gayest dudebro games imaginable