Army of Two 40th Day (demo)

[merf]

we grabbed the rather huge demo (1.9gb) off xbl last night and have rattled thru a couple of times and its rather good brainless fun. Its also up on PSN

never played the original but this feels a lot like Gears of War, crossed with The Club with a strong co-op focus chucked in for good measure.

demo is multiplayer only (local or online) and gives you a fair chunk of game to try out.

irritants are the unskippable intro movie (to stop you looping round I guess) and the controls feel a tad clunky, plus in split screen its a touch too zoomed in for my liking so I get dis-orientated a bit.

other than that is good fun and is on my watchlist now.

[rmoxon]

Dont know what the xbl demo was like becuase I tried the PSN one, but it was a complete mess...

Some of the graphics appeared to be missing, you could walk through walls, and the context sensetive actions never seemed to work properly.

Overall it was one of the worst demos i have ever played really. Hopfuly its only a (very) early version of the game, otherwise its going to be god awful.

[Baseley09]

This looks like utter turd.

[jim g]

This looks like utter turd.

agreed

[Spatial]

Anyone who's played the first care to comment on how it holds up against it?

Have they actually delivered on the promises to improve stuff or is it just more fist bumps and homoerotic undertones?

[rmoxon]

Anyone who's played the first care to comment on how it holds up against it?

Have they actually delivered on the promises to improve stuff or is it just more fist bumps and homoerotic undertones?

From what I played it seems very similar, The main characthers still seem to spend more time dry humping each other than they do shooting people.

Everything from the way it plays (sluggishly) to the way it looks (generic and crap) seems to be the same. To be honest I actualy enjoyed the cutscenes more than the gameplay in the demo, but thats not saying much as the gameplay is awful and the cutscenes wernt much better. Though there was an "exciting" moment when the city your in gets bombed and the building your standing on appears to be blown up by a misile... I flew through the air in comical rag doll style, I thought I was dead... but appearently i wasnt becuase my characther got stright back up again...

[chopemon]

I disagree, this looks substantially better to the first.

The characters move better and are more responsive and the shooting feels much better (enemies no longer take 100000000 rounds to kill).

It's a good quality 3rd person cover shooter. Nothing more, nothing less.

I'll definitely be getting it.

[NoelEdwards]

I loaded this up today only to find out it was multiplayer demo, I quit it and I was going to try it tonight when my mate was online. I don?t think I?ll bother now after reading the above comments about it.

[merf]

I'd give it a whirl, its nothing revolutionary but I enjoyed it a whole lot more than a lot of other games I can think of that scored very highly.

[EvilBoris]

I was enjoying this, the graphics are loads better than the first but the controls are a bit shonky.
The game seems much more cinematic than the first, there were some quite impressive set pieces.

it was all running fine and glitch free here on 360 with a very stable framerate, but I punched to hostages to death and then couldn't progress, so I killed my co-op buddy and the game crashed, whoops.