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Split Screen Co-op Is Dying

Posted by Soulskill on from the just-like-lan-parties dept.

kube00 writes "Split-screen co-op and local multiplayer are becoming things of the past. What happened to cramming a bunch of gamers into a room with two TVs and doing a system link match in Halo? Where have the all-night GoldenEye matches gone? Like the arcades of gamers' youth, the local multiplayer and co-op bonding experience has been replaced with individual gamers and a network."

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  1. Not on the Wii it isn't by Zouden · · Score: 5, Informative

    Super Mario Bros Wii supports 4-player co-op. And it seems pretty stupid to ask "Where have the all-night GoldenEye matches gone?" when there's a new GoldenEye game for the Wii that supports 4-player split screen just like the original.

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  2. You're not looking. by Spit · · Score: 3, Informative

    The most popular titles today all have excellent couch co-op and multi features. Examples:

    Halo Reach
    CoD Black Ops
    SMB Wii
    SM Cart
    Gears of War series

    There are also countless local multi games available on services like Xbox Live Arcade and PSN..

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  3. Re:Damned shame by Narishma · · Score: 3, Informative

    Go ahead and find me a fighting game that doesn't have split screen (lookin forward to Marvel vs. Capcom 3 BTW).

    Fighting games don't have split-screen, they have same-screen multiplayer.

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