Honestly, there’s not much more to say about The 40th Day’s storyline. All the plot really needs to do is give your actions a framework and on that front it works just fine, providing wiggle room for those who actually do want to find out what’s going on by littering the levels with collectible radios that offer short audio clips to flesh things out. It’s hardly Oscar-worthy stuff, but to be honest it doesn’t really matter and anybody who even gazes at The 40th Day’s boxart will know that narrative isn’t really a priority for this game. The city is filled with troops, tanks and artillery in the blink of an eye and the trio that forms the eponymous army of two are trapped inside.

They are doing a job in Shanghai when suddenly the city is assaulted by a mysterious, unknown third party. Salem, Rios and Alice, the survivors of the previous game, have set up their own mercenary unit. It introduces new ideas that allow you to project some basic morality onto your two blank-faced mass murderers, and the tutorial section no longer spends ages introducing the specifics of how to start a chest-bump. The plot of the game has somehow been trimmed down even further and the action distilled into an even more raw form.Īt the same time though The 40th Day is obviously trying to distance itself from the coarse insensitivity most people attach to the first game. In many ways Army of Two: The 40th Day, which has chosen a fashionably obscure subtitle instead of the more conventional use of a number (probably because ‘Army of Tutu’ sounds a bit weird), stays close to these ideas. ‘Functional’ is perhaps the best word to describe the corridors of baddies and bare-bones story. Tax)Īrmy of Two isn’t a game with a sterling reputation and, between the mid-genocide fist-bumps and the pimping of your favourite AK-47 with a gold and platinum coating, we think it’d be hard to find anyone who thought otherwise. Army of Two: The 40th Day Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

Army of two: the 40th day