Triforceformer said:
-What I can only describe as "Exaggeration of the Black Ops II villain during his machete rampage" kicks a grenade near one of his "troops" with a bit of a comedic pause.
-Unarmored, slim-figured attractive not-as-brown woman is the "backup" for Alpha and Bravo against "Grenade Kick McGee."
-The villain slowly walks towards the three characters, somehow never being shot. Also is not caught in big explosion after Alpha/Bravo (Impossible to tell who's who as it's never made clear) says "Adios" like it's clever.
-Unfunny and mildly racist line about tacos.
-ALL the wanton destruction with beat up vehicles and guns to make it "gritty."
-No implication of any sort of plot aside from "Shoot everything in Mexico."
Allow me to explain these.
Machete villain is a fucking psychopath, as shown by his murdering one of his own troops.
The woman is unarmored because she's not a full time mercenary, she's an agent/informant in the vein of James Bond. On the subject of her not being brown, does every game and piece of entertainment really need to have a rainbow of skin colors? Should one of the characters be a wheel-chair bound man who kicks just as much ass as the heroes because he's "handi-capable"?
Villain walks menacingly towards protagonists and doesn't die. Kind of a staple of the action movie genre. Alpha/Bravo says "adios" because it is slightly clever in an action movie one-liner sort of way.
Character makes a quip about tacos, implying he's hungry and would enjoy a tortilla-shell treat, as would I after giving half the population lead poisoning.
Wanton destruction is apparently "gritty" now. Cause you know, explosions and car chases, the darkest and most angst-filled recesses of the human heart.
No implication of plot because it's a two minute trailer, and it's an Army of Two game, which means they don't get too much into stories, preferring to throw the characters into situations and then just let them react to it.
Personally, this trailer isn't so bad as everyone makes it out to be. I like the Army of Two series, but honestly, why does everyone care so much about a stupid system of political correctness? Yes the characters are white, yes the plot is two mercenary sociopaths living in a Tarantino movie, yes there is a lot of violence and gunfighting, but when did that become a bad thing? I actually like the characters, Rios and Salem had a real bond as warriors and non-blood-brothers, and the fact that they didn't make Alice the generic love interest is a reason I love the series. Their dialogue is pretty good, with Salem trying to be a mercenary with a conscience while Rios is jaded enough to feel nothing when killing for money.
"Some non-white people got shot in the trailer, that means it's racist!" is the jist I've seen from this forum so far, but I bet that if we were talking about Call of Duty, you'd be complaining that you were killing Russians. I would. I like Russians.
But so far, it's only shown that you're fighting the cartels, whose soldiers consist of mass-murderers, hitmen, psychopaths, and enforcers of a horrific regime that holds the people of Mexico in terror and constant warfare. It's like saying Django Unchained (awesome movie by the way) was racist because all of the white Americans were shown to be horrible racist bastards who say "******" and hit slaves. Would you prefer if they set the action in Mexico, and had all the bad guys be white? Or if they set it in America and fought the Crips or the Bloods?
Political correctness is not only an inane waste of breath, but it only serves to engender feelings of difference between peoples of all races. Look at the trailer, and realize that you're being far far too sensitive about this. I'll be right with you guys chanting hatred if this pulls a Call of Juarez, but for now, stay calm, and get excited for a good game from a good series.
