Devil’s Cartel tells a fun, if entirely predictable story, but doesn’t take itself too seriously as it’s throwing out clichéd plot points left and right, even going so far as to have the characters joke in their dialogue about how they saw certain plot twists coming.

Your mission is to protect Cordova, a local anti-cartel politician with a penchant for pissing off powerful men supported by their own personal armies. After an unimaginative flashback which sets the stage for the story, you’re thrown headlong into what is, for all intents and purposes, an all-out war with a Mexican drug cartel led by Bautista. In Devil’s Cartel, you play as the mercenary Alpha, alongside your ultra-generic partner Bravo, in a two-man strike team under orders from the paramilitary outfit T.W.O. Unfortunately, despite being a surprisingly enjoyable experience, the two-player co-op focus is not enough to separate Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel from any number of other run-of-the-mill third person shooters. The Army of Two series tries to do this with a focus on two-player co-op and the franchise’s latest entry, Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel, continues with this tradition. With a slew of shooters on the market at any given time, and a reliance on staple mechanics for the genre, each new game should make a deliberate effort to separate itself from the pack.

Army of two: the devil's cartel