Procrastination- Because it wouldn’t be the first time you wrote a term paper in an hour.
Right, so this won’t be a particularly large or in-depth entry, namely because as I write this I’m putting off starting work on a reading response (due tomorrow) a research paper (due Monday) and a critical theory paper (due Tuesday). Yeah, I’m a born and bred procrastinator. But the internet is so much more interesting than a term paper!
Anyway, I gave Army of Two a try…neither of us really cared for it. It may have had something to do with the fact that in the first ‘tutorial’ mission, the obnoxious ‘how to’ screen popped on both players, making it impossible to see or target anything. Essentially, when we were given instruction to “shoot this” or “move here” it was nothing more than blind luck that let us get to the desired location. The sad thing is, multiplayer was what this game was touted for. There were more interesting things to do than suffer through the tutorial mission, so I left it alone for the time being. Afterwards, I went back to try the game in single player.
It’s interesting. Features such as “Aggro” and commands for your teammate add a new dimension to the game- but I can’t help thinking that they make things a bit too easy, as I can casually walk out into the open and pick off my opponents one by one with my sniper rifle while my teammate takes all their fire. A friend of mine says Army of Two is quite similar to Gears of War- this is very true. Unfortunately, I still found it rather…bland and unexciting. Maybe it’s just me realizing that shooters don’t hold the same allure for me as they once did. Or perhaps it really is just a mediocre game.
Either way, it did intrigue me, so I will be giving the sequel a try when it releases- as a rental, however.
I’ll finally be renting FEAR 2 this Friday. We’ll see how that goes.
Oh, right. It’s April Fools day today. Meh.
