Army of Two Recompilation

Unofficial PC port of the Xbox 360 version of Army of Two (2008). The campaign can be played in online co-op, without EA servers. Graphics go through the port's own Direct3D 12 renderer, not GPU emulation. The game's PowerPC code is statically recompiled to C++ with the ReXGlue SDK and built as a Windows x64 executable.

The whole game is finishable in solo or co-op without crashes. Tested on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 and RTX 4060, stable 144 FPS.

The repository contains no game files. You need your own copy of the game.

Found a bug or have a suggestion? Please open an issue.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 x64 only, a GPU with Direct3D 12
• About 6 GB of disk space, plus 1.3 GB for the DLC
• Army of Two for Xbox 360 (European release), Title Update 2 and DLC (optional)

Installation

1. Download the package from Releases and extract it to a writable folder (not Program Files).
2. Run ArmyOfTwoLauncher.exe. If the game is not installed, it opens the install screen.
3. Choose the disc image (.iso) or default.xex of an extracted game, and the Title Update 2 package TU_12K222C_0000004000000.00000000000G1. DLC packages are optional.
4. Press Install. The files are copied to assets\.

Saves: Documents\armyoftworecomp_tu2. To update, extract the new package over the old one.

On the first runs shaders are compiled, so there are short stutters.

What the port adds

• Online coop mode without reliance on EA servers, supporting both Public and Private Co-op
• Split-screen on one PC with each player's devices chosen in the launcher
• Graphics settings inside the game: Options → Graphics
• Render resolution above the console's 720p
• Optimized performance with stable frame rates
• Keyboard and mouse support, including keyboard key glyphs in on-screen button prompts
• Input remapping for both keyboard and gamepad, available in the launcher
• Skippable pre-rendered cutscenes using the Enter or Space key

Controls

Action	Keyboard / mouse	Controller
Move	W A S D	Left stick
Camera / aim	Mouse	Right stick
Fire	LMB	RT
Precision aim	RMB	LT
Reload	R	X
Roll / cover / vault	Space	Y
Use / confirm	E / Enter	A
Back	Backspace / Q	B
Crouch	Ctrl / C	L3
Inventory (hold)	Z	LB
Co-op commands (hold)	F	RB
Weapons and grenades	1–4	LB + D-pad
Partner orders	Arrows	D-pad
R3	MMB	R3
GPS	Tab	Back
Pause	Esc	Start

Bindings: the launcher's Settings → Keyboard and Gamepad tabs (press the key or button to assign it, combinations and mouse buttons 4–5 work), or settings\mapping.toml (keybind_*, padbind_*). Gamepads work as on the console.

Co-op

• Works over LAN or a virtual network (Radmin VPN, ZeroTier, Tailscale).
• Both players start the game from the launcher. The launcher looks for a host on the local network and picks the role. Over the internet, enter the host's IP in the launcher's Settings → Network (or F8 in the game).
• Public Co-op: Campaign Mode → Public Co-op Game.
• Private Co-op (recommended), with invites: the lobby's Invite button opens the Players window (also F8) with the players found on the network; the partner accepts the invite with F6. Unlike Public Co-op, it keeps checkpoints, so you can continue the game later.
• Both players need the same build of the port, the same DLC and the same game language.
• Run Allow through firewall (run as administrator).bat once on both PCs.

Details: aot/docs/online_coop.md.

Split-screen

• Two players on one PC: in the launcher, Settings → Split-Screen, turn it on, enter both gamertags and pick each player's devices from the list of connected ones: the keyboard and mouse, a specific gamepad, any gamepad, or the keyboard plus a pad. Play then starts the game at once, without the host search.
• Player 2 signs in with their own profile and saves while a device is assigned to them.
• The mouse aims and drives for the player who has the keyboard.
• Button prompts follow each player: keys in the keyboard player's half of the screen, Xbox buttons in the other's; a prompt they share shows both.
• Without the launcher: input_player1, input_player2, user_gamertag_2 and max_local_users in settings\mapping.toml.

Settings

TOML files in settings\.

File	Contents
hardware.toml	Window, fullscreen, render scale (ao2_native_gpu_resolution_scale), FPS cap (ao2_fps_target), anisotropic filtering, language (ao2_game_language)
mapping.toml	Key and gamepad bindings, mouse sensitivity and inversion, split-screen players and devices
online.toml	Co-op settings, gamertag

Building

Needed: Visual Studio 2022 Build Tools, LLVM/Clang, CMake, Ninja, Git, and the game files with default.xexp from TU2 in aot/assets/ (aot/assets/README.md).

Folder	Contents
aot/	The port: manifest, sources (aot/src), renderer (aot/src/gpu/native), settings
sdk_changes/	Changed ReXGlue SDK files (README)
launcher/	Launcher (README)
tools/	Debug and test tools

1. SDK with the port's changes:

   powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File sdk_changes\apply.ps1
   build-sdk.cmd
   

2. Code generation:

   cd aot
   rexglue\win-amd64\bin\rexglue.exe codegen armyoftworecomp_manifest.toml
   

3. Game build: build.cmd (release; other modes are listed at the top of the file). It also copies the modified rexruntime.dll from sdk\ next to the game.

Release package: aot\tools\make_release.ps1 [-Zip]. Renderer notes: aot/docs/native_renderer.md.

Legal

A fan project, not affiliated with Electronic Arts. Army of Two and related names are trademarks of their owners. The repository contains only the port's code and the recompilation config; the recompiled code is generated locally from your copy of the game.