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It Takes Two

Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.

ActionPuzzlePlatformerAdventure

Developer

Hazelight Studios

Electronic Arts

Released

25 Mar 2021

5 years ago

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9.8

VGDB Score

4 reviews

95%

Overwhelmingly Positive

Metacritic

£34.99

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Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two, a genre-bending platform adventure created purely for co-op. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Play as the clashing couple Cody and May, two humans turned into dolls by a magic spell. Together, trapped in a fantastical world where the unpredictable hides around every corner, they are reluctantly challenged with saving their fractured relationship.

Master unique and connected character abilities in every new level. Help each other across an abundance of unexpected obstacles and laugh-out-loud moments. Kick gangster squirrels’ furry tails, pilot a pair of underpants, DJ a buzzing night club, and bobsleigh through a magical snow globe. Embrace a heartfelt and hilarious story where narrative and gameplay weave into a uniquely metaphorical experience.

It Takes Two is developed by the award-winning studio Hazelight, the industry leader of cooperative play. They’re about to take you on a wild and wondrous ride where only one thing is for certain: we’re better together.

KEY FEATURES

Pure co-op perfection — Invite a friend to join for free with Remote Play Together**, and experience a thrilling adventure built purely for two. Choose from couch or online co-op with split-screen play, and face ever-changing challenges where working together is the only way forward.
Gleefully disruptive gameplay — From rampaging vacuum cleaners to suave love gurus, you never know what you’ll be up against next. Filled with genre-bending challenges and new character abilities to master in every level, experience a metaphorical merging of gameplay and narrative that pushes the boundaries of interactive storytelling.
A universal tale of relationships — Discover a touching and heartfelt story of the challenges in getting along. Help Cody and May learn how to overcome their differences. Meet a diverse cast of strange and endearing characters. Join forces and go on an adventure you’ll treasure — together!

ABOUT HAZELIGHT

Hazelight is an award-winning independent game development studio based in Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 2014 by Josef Fares (film director and creator of the award-winning game Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons), Hazelight is committed to pushing the creative boundaries of what is possible in games. In 2018, Hazelight released the BAFTA award-winning A Way Out — the first-ever co-op only, third-person action-adventure — as part of the EA Originals program.

ABOUT EA ORIGINALS

EA Originals helps shine a light on some of the most passionate, independent, and talented game studios across the globe. Discover innovative and unforgettable gaming experiences from highly creative game makers who love to enchant and inspire.

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KaipoNat9/10

9out of 10

2 months ago

Bombjack10/10

One of the Best

I started playing this with my wife, but she is not a gamer. So I finished it with my daughter. What a great dad gaming experience, she and I working together to solve puzzles and finish the game. The story is not really suitable for her, at least I am not sure I want her understanding the themes just yet. But the game itself is a delight. It looks great, plays amazingly well and is a joy to experience. Not a lot of replayability though. Hight recommended

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Skillet10/10

Competitive Teamwork

As the name of this game suggests, this game can only be played by two players. As I understand it, only one of you needs to own it and the second player can download the game to play for free. In my case, we played It Takes Two through the Xbox Game Pass so were able to both download it and not find out the intricacies of one not having immediate access. From the Xbox app it opens into the EA app, so I was never quite sure if it was up to date or not but complications on installation and where it was running aside, let me get the important part, gameplay end entertainment. The start of the game sets the scene and there is a fair amount of cut scenes to do that. Ultimately though, you play a married couple who no longer get on and want a divorce, only somehow your daughter accidentally curses you into doll-like figures and, with the aid of an animated ‘Book of Love’ you must rediscover why you married and work through a series of challenges and varying landscapes to figure this out. You play Code (Clay man) and May (Wooden doll) and are equipped with various attachments along the way to complete each section which flow into each other well with no obvious loading screens; it’s sleek. Sure, it’s loading in the cut scenes but its good enough to make it feel like a fluid game. The odd thing at the start of the game is that you play on a vertically split screen which seems odd when you are not in the same room. But this becomes more useful as the game progresses and you can view your partner’s screen to figure out what you need to do as you often have different skills or powers. Dotted around the levels are various mini games where you compete against each other; some are fun, some are tedious and some just downright odd! There were all entertaining in some ways. The style of the game is quite beautiful, Toy Story style in animation and it makes for some gorgeous interactive scenery along the way. The story also seems to have a darker side to it as you see two supposedly loving parents do some questionable things to an elephant to make their daughter cry. Overall, this game is a lot of fun, assuming you get on with your game partner. Much like with Portal 2 you can have some fun killing each other, I mean, it is hilarious for a short time, but this game always comes back to teamwork, and you need to work together and trust your partner otherwise it will become frustrating, and you will never finish. The content was far greater than I had imagined; that said, we played it for about 15 hours to complete the story. 15 hours of thinking, cursing, and laughing, so well worth it. Originally published on 28 August 2022.

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