Army of Two: The 40th Day

By Robert Purchese Published 17 December, 2009

Reid Schneider on arse-slapping, movies, love interests and more.

Army of Two: The 40th Day

by Bert Bert

17/12/09 15:00

Reid Schneider on arse-slapping, movies, love interests and more.

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Comments (20) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • HermitArcader #1 2 years ago

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  • HermitArcader #2 2 years ago

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  • charming_fox #3 2 years ago

    Questions You've Asked
    15:50:46 PM Why am I so tired?

  • HermitArcader #4 2 years ago

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  • HermitArcader #5 2 years ago

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  • Super_Zee #6 2 years ago

    "Reid Schneider is hear"?

  • Murton #7 2 years ago

    Well that kinda answered my question on what the single player is going to like. No major improvements over last time other than some AI tweaks and the ability to interact with more objects. This is definitely going to be a partner required game by the looks of things.

  • CaLeDee #8 2 years ago

    I meant romantically involved with each other, not a female character. Oh well.

  • HermitArcader #9 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:17:39 22-12-2011

  • Machetazo #10 2 years ago

    My second question did get answered - sort of, in a way-ish! :D I'll try to compose future queries better, next time.
    Thanks for dropping by EG, Reid.
    Edited by 1 at 17/12/09 @ 17:06

  • kangarootoo #11 2 years ago

    Good interview.

    I thought his comments about missing the mark tonally in the first one, and the multiplayer being pretty last minute, were refreshingly candid. Always nice to see devs taking player feedback squarely on the chin.

  • Petulant_Radish #12 2 years ago

    I tried the demo, it's still pony.

  • davymackie #13 2 years ago

    didnt like the demo.

  • BillyBrush #14 2 years ago

    Gave it a try a few hours back..

    It's a total bag of shite...i don't remember the original having combat like Kane & Lynch...must have been on the sauce because i thought it was Ok at the time.

  • headrush #15 2 years ago

    AoT was awesome. I still give it a spin from time to time.

  • penhalion #16 2 years ago

    I didn't even bother with the demo. I downloaded it and it asked me to regisater an EA account. WTF! I have an XBox live gold account for online play so why the frak would I need an EA account. I deleted it immediately and just struck it off my list of possible buys. I'm really fed up with this kind of shite. I've already complained to Microsoft about it, asking why I need to pay them for online services if companies like EA seem to think they can restrict how I play games on the service.

  • Murton #17 2 years ago

    Penhalion: I've already complained to Microsoft about it, asking why I need to pay them for online services if companies like EA seem to think they can restrict how I play games on the service.

    The "service" you pay for is an independent login and leaderboard system, not the online play itself. EA games are hosted on EA servers or are played peer to peer. You'll actually find that very few third party games use Microsoft's LIVE multiplayer servers because MS charges publishers a fortune for hosting on top of the certification, submission and royalties costs that all games carry anyway. That's why you need an EA account tied to your Gamertag and also why you have to agree to EA's terms and conditions in order to play their games online.

  • penhalion #18 2 years ago

    @Murton

    What frakin' nonsense. If that was the case I wouldn't be able to play MW2, Gears etc. etc. without an epic account or an infinity ward account. I should not be forced to sign up to yet another bloody service just to play a game online with my mates. Why the heck does EA need me to sign up in the first place. The answer is so that they can send me junk mail promoting their other games. Well they can frak right off. If this is present in the final army of two game, then I'm not touching it pure and simple. I'm also pretty sure that Microsoft are watching peoples reactions to this with interest as they don't seem to keen on this practice either.

  • byakuya83 #19 2 years ago

    I played the first (came with my 360) and thought it was crap, too many co-op moves and button presses to remember. The controls weren't intuitive enough and trying to fight your way through the enemies whilst trying to figure out which button or move to use was a nightmare for me.

    The fact that the humour in some of these questions was missed leads me to believe the 'humour' in the game will grate. Surely nobody in Europe really wants to play a game with the two lead characters whooping, hollering and high-fiving each other - I would assume the arse slap question was in jest...

  • Murton #20 2 years ago

    Penhalion: nonsense or not it is the truth, anyone who works in the industry can tell you that. And by the way an EA account was required on the first game and all other in house EA games I believe. As for Gears you don't need an Epic account because that is hosted on MS' LIVE servers and Infinity Ward don't use accounts with the exception of the IW:net for the PC version so they were both pretty bad examples, hell even Halo a Microsoft made game requires you to make a Bungie account for online play, did you refuse to do that too?

    As for you other ramblings, you're not "forced" to sign up with anything so you can play with friends, there's a no account required split screen option and the "spam" you seem concerned about can be avoided by ticking the little box when you create your EA account. I personally find it staggering that you feel so strongly about having to spend to minutes to create an EA account to play every EA game online and have access to their community features but have no issue at all with paying forty quid a a yearin order to access to third party game servers.
    Edited by 1 at 20/12/09 @ 11:54