ARMY OF TWO: THE DEVIL'S CARTEL SERIES

If you like scoring headshots from behind a wall, tactically outmaneuvering your enemies, or making your AI partner play by your rules by sending him on a suicide run into enemy fire, youвЂ™ll find a lot to enjoy in The DevilвЂ™s CartelвЂs combat system. Firing at the enemies from cover will draw fire and take the heat off your partner, allowing Bravo to move in for the flank, or simply stay alive. The DevilвЂ™s Cartel can be played largely solo without requiring much teamwork, but certain situations, like the aforementioned machine gun placements, will emphasize the importance of some level of cooperation.

Whether youвЂ™re moving from cover to cover, trying to outwit the less-than-clever enemies, or working with your partner to flank a fortified machine gun position, the cooperative cover-based combat is the most compelling part of the experience, although even that can get to be a little repetitive at times. This sort of humor goes a long way towards making the story palatable and, in fairness youвЂ™re probably not playing this for the story anyway.Д®ven if youвЂ™re playing single player, Army of Two: The DevilвЂ™s Cartel focuses on the cooperative dynamic, allowing you to issue commands to your AI partner using the D-Pad, which helps you work as a team to take down swarms of cartel fighters. DevilвЂ™s Cartel tells a fun, if entirely predictable story, but doesnвЂ™t take itself too seriously as itвЂ™s throwing out clichГ©d plot points left and right, even going so far as to have the characters joke in their dialogue about how they saw certain plot twists coming. Your mission is to protect Cordova, a local anti-cartel politician with a penchant for pissing off powerful men supported by their own personal armies. After an unimaginative flashback which sets the stage for the story, youвЂ™re thrown headlong into what is, for all intents and purposes, an all-out war with a Mexican drug cartel led by Bautista. In DevilвЂ™s Cartel, you play as the mercenary Alpha, alongside your ultra-generic partner Bravo, in a two-man strike team under orders from the paramilitary outfit T.W.O.

Unfortunately, despite being a surprisingly enjoyable experience, the two-player co-op focus is not enough to separate Army of Two: The DevilвЂ™s Cartel from any number of other run-of-the-mill third person shooters.

ARMY OF TWO: THE DEVIL'S CARTEL SERIES

The Army of Two series tries to do this with a focus on two-player co-op and the franchiseвЂ™s latest entry, Army of Two: The DevilвЂ™s Cartel, continues with this tradition. With a slew of shooters on the market at any given time, and a reliance on staple mechanics for the genre, each new game should make a deliberate effort to separate itself from the pack.

Army of two: the devil's cartel