Two Players, One Console, Cooperative Play?

boredme asks: "With the free time I'll have this summer, I thought I'd get in some quality couch-potato time. I'm married, no children, and our Playstation2 is nice because it can be both more interactive than TV and more social than a computer since it's in the living room. The problem is that the vast majority of two player games are sports or arena fighting games that only allow confrontational interaction; since I have a dozen extra years experience gaming, these competitive games get old very quickly for both of us. What suggestions for cooperative, (not online) multiplayer games do the Slashdot folks have?" Along a similar vein, the Gauntlet games (available for most platforms) offer similar opportunities for co-operative play, but no other titles come to mind right now. What co-op games do you have fun with that you can play using a single console?

"The perfect example of this is Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. The whole game, with storyline, can be played through with one or two players alike. Others, like Jedi Starfighter, are close as they offer a small set of two-player missions that are distinct from the one-player missions. (Googling for this, by the way, has turned up very short lists at best.)

I'm primarily interested in PS2 games, but I still want to know what XBOX, GameCube, or even PS1 or PC games in this category are available. I'd even like to hear about sports games that offer a cooperative mode, or games not yet released."

Comments

Am I the only one

[Mensa Babe]

"...our Playstation2 is nice because it can be both more interactive than TV and more social than a computer since it's in the living room."

Am I the only one, who is terrified, by the "social" activities of today's era?

Re:Am I the only one

[realdpk]

Am I the only one, who is terrified, by the comma use, of the Mensa member, commenting on, social activities, in today's era?

Re:Am I the only one

[Anonymous Coward]

Am I the only one, who is terrified, by the "social" activities of today's era?

Am I the only one who is terrified by the parent's comma usage?

Worse, though, is the sig:

DISCLAIMER: The views expressed hereafter are not necessarily those of MENSA, which I am only a member of.

Please. Don't they teach you in Mensa not to end a sentence with a preposition?

It wouldn't be a problem if you didn't advertise how smart you think you are. In today's world, Mensa's reputation is as a haven for a particularly ugly subset of the classic nerd, one who needs a membership card to validate his (or her) otherwise empty life. Seriously: get a hobby.

Tell me, if you're so smart, why you haven't realized that Mensa is a scam? Obviously, the people at the top are clever, charging membership fees in exchange for nothing more than the intangible bragging rights. If you're smart enough to join Mensa in the first place, you should be smart enough not to join Mensa.

Re:Am I the only one

[mdielmann]

I'd hardly call MENSA the be-all and end-all of social activities...

The perfect fix

[xenocide2]

I'm married, no children

I'd even like to hear about sports games that offer a cooperative mode, or games not yet released.

I know of a game that some would consider a sport, definately cooperative, and is probably the only way to remedy the lack of children. I don't think its been released in stores, too many security cameras ;)

Re:Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance

[Goldberg's Pants]

(about the most painful thing you can think of happened)

You caught your penis in your fly?