Part one can be found here.

Army of Two just came out, and it seems like an interesting idea: A shooter made pretty much exclusively for co-op play. Everyone loves co-op play, and a game entirely tailored to it should be great, shouldn't it? I know some of my best gaming experiences have been in front of the TV with one of my brothers blasting/hacking/etc. enemies side by side.

Not that EA seems to care, since from what I've heard, there's no way to play Army of Two with local multiplayer. I.e., you can't plug another controller in and play on the same system. You can only play co-op online. How stupid is that?

Seriously, I'll bet thousands of players were looking forward to exactly the kind of gameplay that EA has forbidden from them, and now will probably never play the game out of disgust. To be perfectly frank I was probably never going to play the game anyway (I don't have a 360 or a PS3), but still, this is a really stupid move. Way to alienate your potential userbase, EA. This is worse than the whole "You need five different systems to play Crystal Chronicles" thing.

Remember: Online gameplay in anything but an MMO is supposed to be an added feature. It shouldn't supplant the kind of things we've been able to do since Contra on the NES.