Rumor: Army of Two 'The 40th Day' to be Announced March 14th

Jim "txshurricane" McLaughlin March 6th, 2009 at 1:27 PM

"Step back, please, ma'am."

Yesterday, we held back a rumor about the fabled Army of Two sequel currently being developed. EA Montreal had posted a splash screen and absently included spoilers in the source file names. "Army of Two: TFD" was deduced by snopping gamers.

Today, a few details come from an anonymous tip at Joystiq...so as neat as this info is, take it with the usual grain of salt.

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The game takes place in Shanghai, where a network of PMCs are looking to take over, under the rule of a leader with a hidden purpose

Rios and Salem are back, however they've been reluctantly dragged into the conflict and don't have the full story

The game will feature moral decisions, a deeper weapons customization system, multiple endings, and even a few followers

Multiplayer will be outsourced yet again

On the technical side: The 40th Day adds Beast lighting and Fracture, as well as an improved networking system

Environmental interaction: some weapons will be capable of tearing through thin walls and obstacles in the game; and new AI scripts will improve your partner's realism (e.g., peeking through windows, taking out enemies silently, etc.)

EA will be tossing civilians into the mix, which you can use as human shields

1st map is the introduction

2nd map is the invasion; with Rios and Salem escaping from a crumbling building

3rd map takes place in a zoo

4th map takes Rios and Salem to a hospital

Source: Link

Tags: playstation 3 xbox 360 rumors army of two 2 player co-op

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4 Total Reader Comments

coolcrushkilla at 08:35 AM on 3.6.2009

Awesome! This is a must buy for me!!! Any word on a release date???

txshurricane at 12:53 PM on 3.6.2009

Not so far. Officially, it's not even announced.

Mrxknown_JG at 01:02 PM on 3.6.2009

Hopefully, it's a lot better than the first one. I was disappointed with it and I played it 3 times through. That's 3 times NONSTOP. Which amounts to about 6 hours each, which is 18 hours of my life.

It was fun, but I really wish there was more tactics involved than "Looky here while my buddy shoots you in the back".

SkullBum at 09:48 AM on 3.7.2009

AO2 had some good features and all but the online lacked and the campaign was only so so some of the pre movies for the game had co op moves that wasnt put into the game if the right people work on this this could be a fanchise that could compete with gears of war someday.