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We’ve been hearing a lot of controversy over Army of Two, EA’s upcoming co-op shooter, in the last couple months since the announcement of its delay to ’08. Many media outlets are praising the delay, since the potential is so high and the product quality was so low at the time of its initially intended release. GamesRadar posted a little something on the game that could be called “scathing”.

As it stands, Army of Two is a juvenile swear-fest with clumsy controls, a story apparently penned by a seven year old who hates them ay-rabs, laughable level design that tosses you into a cut-scene every thirty seconds, sub Perfect Dark Zero graphics and the two least likable characters in gaming history. We’d rather play as a Bubsy the Bobcat/Raiden from Metal Gear Solid tag-team than these two douchebags. The delay is a stay of execution. It has four months to get even vaguely good. Hope for a miracle.

One of our sources has informed us that the build may have been old, because it’s upped its quality since the intended release window significantly. We’re not sure if the writer (at Xbox World, a GR sister mag) was bothered by the inane cursing or politically incorrect attitude more than he/she was agitated by poor gameplay. This will be one to keep an eye on for its Spring 08 release. It seems a little immature to call it “Army of Shit” and refer to the characters as “douchebags” to us, but hey, what can we do about it?

We feel like we can trust our source a little more than a writer who deals out insults to the game instead of constructive criticism, which is what they should be dishing out if they want it to be in better shape by release. We’ll give the writer some kind of benefit of the doubt, though. We’ll be the first to admit that we haven’t played it.