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

Well.....

[Dark Nexus]

I know most of the EA sports games USED to allow 2 players (or 4, or even 5 back with the SNES) to play on the same team.

I see no reason why they wouldn't still. NHL 2002 for PC still does.

MarioKart DoubleDash

[cjhuitt]

I haven't followed this very much, but from what I can tell, the new MarioKart DoubleDash title (for the gamecube, obviously) would allow two people to play together against the other computers. One of them would drive the cart, and the other would control the "extras" while riding on back.

From past experience, even the competitive parts of the MarioKart games have been really fun - especially if you get into a hard race, and the players racing (if against other computers, mind) have to only hit the other computers in order to be able to advance to the next race.

My girlfriend and I

[notque]

Play Tony Hawk 2-4 all of the time. Granted, I am much more skilled at the game, but she enjoys watching me fall more than anything.

She will score 60,000 points in a trick, I will be on the verge of 2 million, and I fall.

Nothing more entertaining to her than that.

I'd also suggest Marble Maddness on Nintendo

Snake Rattle and Roll was also a wonderful 2 player game.

Re:Rogue Squadren III

[Gr33nNight]

Well, RSIII isnt out yet, so dont go looking for it. RSII is out and is a great game, but is single player only. The other Star Wars games you mentioned were made by a different company, not Factor 5.