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- Advanced weapons customization allows you to change your weapon in the heat of battle and adapt your firepower to the situation.
- Army of Two: The 40th Day has been built from the ground up with a focus on a co-op play and an expanded list of co-op tactics, resulting in a bigger, better, more organic two-man tactical experience.
- An engaging story set in Shanghai, China in which the Army of Two must fight their way through ravaged city districts as they try to beat the odds and uncover the secret of the 40th Day.
- Take your partner online in explosive multiplayer modes, focused on co-op play, or strategize in the four-player co-op Extraction Mode and take on a series of intense enemy waves as you move from point to point through the ruined city.
- 12-player multiplayer support online.
Product Description
Army of Two: The 40th Day is a third-person shooter based in groundbreaking cooperative gameplay functionality. Sequel to the 2008 game of the same name, and featuring series heroes, Rios and Salem, in this new iteration players have a bigger playbook of features and a new arsenal of co-op moves that either player can perform at any time, opening up fresh strategies in the face of overwhelming odds… More >>
01/26/2010 at 3:31 pm
I was having a hard time choosing between this game, Darksiders and Bayonetta and I think I made the right choice. For starters this game is alot of fun. The graphics are really good, picture perfect. The gameplay is good also lots of duck,cover,and fire. The AI seems way more responsive and better than the last game with different commands you issue your partner,Also you can switch from a right angle OTS to left angle OTS witch is really helpfull for those enemies who are hard to see on either side of the screen. One thing I have a problem about this game just like any other action game that has come out for the ps3 and xbox 360 is the lenght of the single player campaign. I’ve played the game for 3 hours now and I’m already on the 3rd chapter, I checked my trophie menu on my ps3 and counted only 5 chapters in the game. This is the reason I play rpg’s because you actually get your $60 dollars worth. Videogame companies spend too much time trying to make the online gaming experience so great that they make the regular playthrough so short. Not alot of people can play online so they can only hope that the game is long enough to make it worth there while and money.I have not played online yet so I can’t tell you if it is good or not, from what I’ve read it is alot of fun. Oh yeah I didn’t mention the weapon upgrades, there are plenty of awsome weapons witch can be upgraded with different components that you either find throughout the game or you get depending on some situation choices that you make during your game. So besides my one complaint about the game beng short, it is a really fun game and probably even better if you play with a friend.
Rating: 4 / 5
01/26/2010 at 5:09 pm
I went out yesterday and bought Army of Two: The 40th Day at Best Buy. I hurry home to play the game and the game started out good. The beginning cut scenes are great and the graphics are really good of Shanghai, China. I was impressed because the graphics in this game reminded me a lot of the graphics in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.
Okay here is the difference between this game and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. The AI in Uncharted 2 is a lot better. I played the role of Elliot Salem in the Single Player Campaign and the AI played the role of Tyson Rios. Well, in our first firefight together I told Rios to hold fast in front of enemy soldiers while I went around to try to outflank them. Well by the time I got around behind the enemy soldiers, all of the enemy soldiers were aready dead. Rios had killed them all. I thought what fun was that. I wanted to fight and kill some enemy soldiers. Then the next time I told Rios to go take prisoner a enemy officer that was behind a group of enemy soldiers. Well Rios sneaks up on the enemy officer while the enemy officer walks in front of the enemy soldiers. Rios was able to grab the enemy officer and hold him hostage in front of all the enemy soldiers. I thought to myself why didn’t the enemy soldiers react and do anything to stop Rios from grabbing their commanding officer? It didn’t make any sense. Then I noticed when I shot at the enemy soldiers that they fall down and die way too easy. The enemy soldiers in the first Army of Two game were a lot harder to take down and kill.
Now I’ve only played the first part of the game and maybe it will get better later on. I suggest for the first part of the game to play on the hardest setting. If I notice any big differences in the game later on, I’ll try to update the game with a better rating.
JANUARY 20, 2010 UPDATE: Okay, so I just finished playing the game and here are my thoughts on the game now. The first part of the game I reviewed was the first Chapter to the Single Player Campaign. There are a total of seven Chapters to play through. The first Chapter is more like a tutorial on how to play the game. It was easy but the later Chapters got a lot harder. The AI is actually quite good in the game. My partner (Rios) in the game helped me out quite a bit and the enemy soldiers were pretty good at using cover to hide behind and trying to outflank you. I love how you can upgrade your weapons and how you can use your partner in a lot of different situations to help out. The battles and firefights throughout the game are pretty intense. I ended up really enjoying the game. I would recommend going out and buying the game. I give the game five stars now on my rating instead of three.
Rating: 5 / 5
01/26/2010 at 7:43 pm
This is the first game i played on my PS3 and i would say the story line and action of this game make you forget about time. my step son and i sat and played this game for about 11 and a half hours straight, and completed the game. i haven’t played it online but the play through story line is action packed, and just all around fun. i just ordered the first part to this game so i guess i’ll be able to later compare it and how far it came along from the first one. if you are looking for a game where you can just sit back relax and just blow the hell out of people for hours i would recommend this game. i do like how they let you make decisions through the game and based on those decisions is how your game unfolds to you.i can only hope this is a step that shooters are heading in. 2 thumbs way up for this one
Rating: 5 / 5
01/26/2010 at 9:34 pm
Good graphics, added features and more gore than ever. What more could shooter fans want in a sequal?
The EA website that “lets” you customize masks and stuff requires an account….and it couldn’t find my PS3 ID. So, don’t bother with that.
Rating: 3 / 5
01/27/2010 at 12:04 am
Never played the original so this was a new experience for me and won’t be able to comment on comparisons to the first one. AoT: 40th Day is 3rd person shooter specifically designed for co-op play, online or split-screen. The premise of the game is to traverse through Shanghai killing bad guys while making moral decisions along the way that will affect the outcome of the game and the relationship with your partner. The game focuses on drastic customization of your weapons (e.g., adding a AK-47 barrel to an M4, or a screw driver bayonet to the end of your shotgun) and the ability to draw fire from the enemy in order to get your partner to tacticlly flank them. There some other features like feigning your death, mock surrenders and syncronized sniper shots.
Overall the game is okay, but it seems the bad leveled out the good. The game does NOT save after you customize a weapon – only after checkpoints; if you waste 4-5 minutes toying with your weapons and die…you have to do it over again. Speaking of dying (which will happen a lot), if you die in a fight that required a cut scene you have to watch the cut scene everytime you restart – CANNOT BE SKIPPED. Pretty annoying. The bosses are cliched; armored gatling gunner…flame thower guy with weak point in the back. The customization is cool, but some of the stuff is so ridiculous it seems pointless they added it: bubbled camoflauge? soda can silencer? Depsite the stats of some weapons, they basically seemed the same to me. Lastly, this is the only game for the PS3 that ever frozen.
As mentioned this game is decent, but there are way too many other games out there like MW2 and Uncharted 2 that just seem to make this game feel like a waste of time. Will not be conducting a second playthrough.
Pros:
- Extremely detailed; added a cool scope to your AK?…it’s in the cutscenes.
- Nice cut scenes on outcome of moral decisions moments.
- Some nice weapon customizations.
- Fun co-op, takes some tactical decisions to be made as opposed to rushing a situation.
Cons:
- No auto-save feature after weapon customization. Annoying.
- Cannot skip cut-scenes. Even more annoying, especially if your stuck on a boss.
- Some dumb weapon customizations; who wants a flowered painted RPG?
- Weak focus on melee combat.
- May freeze on you; could be faulty copy though.
- Only 3 pistols? WTF.
Rating: 3 / 5
01/27/2010 at 12:11 am
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