EA Montreal are bringing this years co-op game for Xbox 360. With third-person shooting elements and great, original ideas on how to advance co-operative gaming offline and on. This could be the sleeper hit of the year.

With a fun, but short, campaign and a story that isn't very interesting, Army of Two is at its best when playing with a friend. The versus mode is where Army of Two is most entertaining, because of it's two-on-two competition to see who can complete the most objectives.

A few campaigns into Army of Two, and mercenaries Tyson Rios and Elliot Salem are lugging their risible body armour, pimped hand-cannons and mismatched names towards their next encounter with a bunch of insurgents who look like a street gang, in an army base that looks like a skate park, in an Iraq...

Morally reprehensible. That's probably the best way to sum up EA's new buddy shooter in a quick soundbite and kick this review off. You see, while on technical merit and entertainment value the game usually does just what is expected of it, its subject matter, setting and dialogue – and moreover its...

"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.

It's safe to say there's but a handful of decent single-player titles out there. More and more development studios focus on multiplayer-oriented gameplay and with Microsoft's Xbox LIVE and Sony's PSN now in full swing, features like co-op and online play are usually considered a must for a majority...

Looks nice; sounds nice; fun co-op; excellent multiplayer; gives you a chance to experiment with different tactics

Main campaign is too brief; some features in single-player are almost useless in multiplayer; single-player experience weighed down by poor AI; slightly mundane level design

A great single player and co-op experience, made a lot better with a buddy but not spoiled by a fairly smart A.I chum either. The game isn't overly long but you'll certainly want to playthrough it again even if it's just for the achievements.

The world is diving into dark times with more and more terrorist and criminal organisations springing up each day than you can shake a stick at. The Military cannot cope, and contracts are being handed out to Private Military Corporations (PMC) just to maintain the balance of order.

Shooting/Action/Co-op You would see the biggest gift would be from me and the card attached would say…. Bloody hell… I remember reading about this in the summer of 2006 a few months before I bought my 360. At the time it seemed like a fairly original concept.

EA's eagerly anticipated 3rd Person shooter has suffered numerous delays over the past year and has now hit our shelves, but has it been worth the wait?