"LEGO With Guns" - Army of Two: The 40th Day's Gun Customization

Jim "txshurricane" McLaughlin October 2nd, 2009 at 1:34 PM

The image above may be a little too small to see very clearly, so allow me to describe what's displayed here...

What you're looking at is an FNH SCAR rifle with an CAR-5 tactical stock (most commonly seen on M4-style rifles), an M203 grenade launcher, a Leupold Mark 4 CQ/T "circle-dot" scope, and an HK36 barrel...with a soda can silencer.

This is the kind of customization that Army of Two: The 40th Day will allow players to tinker with. You can literally attached any part of any other gun to your creation. Attachments range from the common to the rare to the outlandish -- and every attachment has an impact on your gun's performance.

Spenser Norrish, Community Coordinator for EA Vancouver's Army of Two team and one of the pre-PAX community event's frontrunners, posted a blog entry last month teasing some of the game's custom gun possibilities. The entry features two images that show off two rifles being outfitted, and sharp readers will catch the partial -- and impressive -- list of available assault rifles on the left side of the customization menu.

"Don't drop that gun! I just spent two hours customizing it!"

Kotaku got their hands on the builder (dubbed "LEGO with guns" by the dev team), but not before Jason and I were given an exclusive peek by producer Matt Turner. While neither preview articles went into great detail at the time, I can assure you that the level at which you can customize your weapons is so high that you will probably never try every combination. It's almost overkill. And it's pretty awesome.

Beyond just the attachment system are the "skins", of which over 20 are planned. Guns are definitely stealing the spotlight this time around, at least for trigger-happy guntards like myself. Check out the Army of Two blog for more images.

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3 Total Reader Comments

smurphster at 08:58 AM on 10.2.2009

i saw that the other day and immediately thought of you and figured you'd post something about it... i was right

this looks really sweet. i liked the customization in the first game but i felt like it didn't go far enough. this may be the sweet spot. borderlands probably went to far but that's a bit different since we're talking about a diablo-inspired loot system. Ao2-2 looks like it will be pretty impressive.

BigBadBob113 at 12:42 PM on 10.2.2009

This is a really neat, fun, and addicting feature for any shooter. Makes me want to Gamefly 40th Day just to check it out, despite the fact that I wasnt a fan of the first.

Sabre at 07:04 AM on 10.3.2009

Interesting, but I wouldn't call it lego with guns. Lego racer was lego with cars in that you litrally had to build it. Still cool though. Sounds great, but given what happened to the first it will be focus tested out, or be like other games where you CAN customize your guns,but only a few options worth having.