I feel like I may have made a topic like this before....if so than sorry.

My sister and I like to team up on games. We have had major fun kicking ass in games like Warriors and Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, and now we're trying to get the Obscure games (even though that's supposed to be more puzzely than actiony). Either way two-player games have become almost ridiculously scarce save for sports, Wii minigame stuff, and racing games.

Does anyone have any suggestions for co-op two player games for these systems?: PS2, Xbox, and Wii. (So yeah, some of you may have to go slightly back in time a bit.) Also, games like BrainAge and all the other common stuff I mentioned doesn't count...I'm mostly referring to action games, ones where you can take a stroll together.

If you don't know for these older systems, then I'd still like to know about ones on the newer systems so I can have something to look forward to later. XD

Well, even though Smash Bros. is mostly a fighting game, it also has the very fun two player co-op adventure mode. It's a little... lacking as a single-player experience, but it's wonderful with friends.

I actually LIKED the single-player on Smash Bros. I had more control over what was going on, instead of having to put up with asshats online or pounding the shit out of my friends who are SOMEHOW worse than I am.

Anyway though, almost EVERY FPS has a co-op mode, but other than that I usually play games that let me play AGAINST my friends.

Resistance 2 is supposed to have an ENTIRELY seperate campain designed around the co-op mode, and two people can play together on one system while six other slots are filled by random internet guys (Or I assume you can invite online friends, I can't see why you WOULDN'T be able to).

Really though, that's the only co-op I can think of that I care about/ think will be any good. Most co-op games SUCK HORRIBLY, so I can't really think of them.

In the following, I'm reffering to Playstation titles only, they're probably different on other platforms. Furthermore, sorry that most of this is the usual testosterocana. c:

The 'Conflict:' series wasn't too bad.
'Conflict: Global Storm' being the newest, though it didn't have that much over 'Desert Storm II'.
In the co-operative game, the four person squad is split equally between the two players. Everything else is exactly the same as in single player.
There's a story, barely, but it doesn't seem to matter at all. While I usually pay attention to the FMV narrative in games, these just seem to be a case of, "Oh shi-! We forgot to add some cutscenes. Better go look at what every last god forsaken soldier movie/book/game/play/holodeck simulation has done before us. Then randomly splice it amongst our gameplay.'
There's an even newer one, 'Denied-Ops', but I wouldn't even rent that.

'Serious Sam: Next encounter', is another shooter, again co-operative is exactly the same as single player. Has a much better story than 'Conflict:'. It's also super serious.

Also, 'Fallout: Brotherhood of steel'. I've heard that it's widely hated, personally my arse wasn't bleeding over the butchery of the worldwide acclaimed, blockbuster original game. Again, single player and co-op are one.

'Destroy All Humans 2', played that co-op for a bit. I don't have the highest opinion of almost all of Pandemic's titles, but, to each his own.

'Timesplitters: Future Perfect', co-op mostly the same as single player, minus some of the more lengthy puzzle sections. I seem to recall that 'Timesplitters 2' had co-op, but I'm pretty sure that's incorrect.

Most side scrolling shooters and arcade collections contain a two player element, usually co-op. 'Gradius V' was the last I owned, 'Metal Slug' annoter. 'R-types: Final' didn't have multiplayer, always read the back.

'Future Cop: LAPD' is very old (Playstation 1), but should be cheap. I remember there being a few Ps1 titles featuring co-op.

Lord Shplane
I actually LIKED the single-player on Smash Bros. I had more control over what was going on, instead of having to put up with asshats online or pounding the shit out of my friends who are SOMEHOW worse than I am.

I wasn't aware that you could fight against people online in Adventure Mode since that was what I was specifically talking about...

Original Xbox: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Splinter Cell Double Agent, both of these have pretty solid co-op gameplay through specific stand-alone missions.

Wii wise, the new Soul Calibur: Legends, is also co-op.

SarahN
we're trying to get the Obscure games (even though that's supposed to be more puzzely than actiony)

If that's the one where they're in the high school and then there are monsters and stuff... I got that to play cooperatively with someone and we weren't impressed. There's not enough items around for both people (and no good weapons), and fighting the monsters cooperatively is actually pretty hard. We didn't make it very far and we're both pretty good at video games. It's just too easy to get hurt and too hard to fight. :[ Dual exploring was fun though :)

Oh yeah, and I remember 'Half Life' having a Ps2 release. That featured a seperate co-op campaign.

Timesplitters 3: Brilliant co-op (one screen), you never know whats going to happen...

Guardian Heroes is still my top choice for 2 player coop. Good luck finding it, though (and I'm sure as Hell not giving up either of my copies). If you can find a copy, there is at least one saturn emulator out there that has an almost 100% emulation rate. I've been using SSF since my Saturn died a while back and have gotten pretty good results (also great for Saturn Bomberman, which also has 2 player coop in addition to the 10 player vs). Red Star for the PS2 isn't too bad, either, although that on did get a limited release and could also be a little hard to find. You might still be able to find some used copies around, though. If you have a decent PC, you may also want to look into the doujin title Ragnarok Battle Offline. There is an English patch floating around that translates the move names and in game text and it supports up to three players. I know places like Himeya carry doujin titles and they may have it and the three expansions.

Inkmonkey

Lord Shplane
I actually LIKED the single-player on Smash Bros. I had more control over what was going on, instead of having to put up with asshats online or pounding the shit out of my friends who are SOMEHOW worse than I am.

I wasn't aware that you could fight against people online in Adventure Mode since that was what I was specifically talking about...

Ah. Ok.

Well even the adventure mode would have some problems.

Namely having to share one screen with an idiot who won't come the fuck on. Or gets killed constantly and you have to fight on your own.

Really, I'm just saying the problems I had with OTHER multiplayer platformers. I haven't tried multiplayer adventure mode, because I can't STAND multiplayer adventure mode on ANYTHING of that nature anymore. :/

Well, aspects of Adventure mode are easier with two player, but some parts are harder, and sometimes there's just some annoying programming.

In Adventure mode, the first player is the "main" character. The camera follows them, and if second player can't keep up he's teleported to the main character's side, rather than having to wait for them or the screen won't scroll forward. Problem is, since the only way to die is to get knocked off the screen, some problems arise. Largely the game differentiates between "knocked off screen" and "wandering too far away" by whether or not you're taking damage at the time. So if you're left too far to the right, and something you can't see bumps into you and player one keeps walking to the left, even if you had 0% damage, you've just lost a life.


It's not such a big deal if you're the kind of person who just enjoys co-op for the sake of co-op, but it can get annoying at times.

Someone
'Future Cop: LAPD' is very old (Playstation 1), but should be cheap. I remember there being a few Ps1 titles featuring co-op.

YES.

Someone
Obscure

Well, it would have been very poor if not for the co-op feature. There just isn't enough survival horror co-op games, which is why I didn't mind playing with a friend. I still have a copy somewhere.

Someone
Half-Life

Amazing fun.

Someone
Original Xbox: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Splinter Cell Double Agent, both of these have pretty solid co-op gameplay through specific stand-alone missions.

Double Agent is for the 360, and there is no co-op story. Chaos Theory's co-op story, while fun, is incredibly short and left me disappointed.

Baldurs Gate (PS2) was good fun on multiplayer, it was a 3rd person view typical fantasy adventure with swords and goblins. Hunter The Reckoning (PS2) also presented some co-op 3rd person hack and slash material. Although again, the games are hollow and don't present any kind of in depth storyline. Although few co-op games focus on two stories for the characters. Most just have the main story, with for example a duplicate of the main character following you around. And there is always typical hack and slash Dynasty Warriors 3+.

Thats about all I can think of, although if you ever get a SEGA, its full of amazing co-op games. :P

Speaking of games like Baldur's Gate, you might also want to look up the Champions of Norrath games. They also support the multitap for four player coop. Also, the Xmen Legends series (go with the Xbox versions if you can find them). There is also Marvel Ultimate Alliance, but I liked the Legends series a little more and for Marvel Ultimate Alliance, the best version is probably the re-release of the 360 version with the added characters (like the Hulk). Still, it doesn't feel as solid as the Legends games. I believe there was also a D&D based game that played like that, as well. Also Hunter: the Reckoning was kind of like a horror-based action RPG of the same mold. The only problem with the Marvel-based games was that between stages, you would often have segments where you would talk to people in whatever base you were in at the time. These segments could unlock other things, but could also be really boring for the second, third and fourth players. The other games were pretty much just action straight through.

Other games I've enjoyed in the past include the gamecube versions of Gauntlet: Dark Legacy and Phantasy Star Online (doesn't require online and supports up to four players with split screen). I wish the newer Phantasy Star Online still had the split screen mode.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I'll be sure and check out a few of these.

Marvel Alliance was actually one of the few games I've played where having a co-op mode didn't help the fun factor all that much. I just found it....boring in every way. Maybe it would've helped if I were more of a Marvel fan. >_> But I still found the gameplay dull, and the camera angles got ANNOYING.

Possibly, although I just found Ultimate Alliance generally wasn't as fun as the previous two games. For some reason, it just felt like the games got less entertaining with each new title. The first game just played more like a beat'em up and then the others started feeling a little more generic in their approach. Ultimate Alliance didn't have as interesting level design and the combat seemed to devolve into using the same canned combos over and over. I found I used the environment a lot more in Xmen Legends (throw items at enemies, throw enemies into walls/off cliffs, bust through walls, etc).

Bekefel
Double Agent is for the 360, and there is no co-op story. Chaos Theory's co-op story, while fun, is incredibly short and left me disappointed.

Double Agent was released on both Xbox and Xbox 360 formats, both were significantly different as well. I have both titles on my shelf.

In the Xbox version of Double Agent there's a full co-op mission set that's longer than the Chaos Theory set presented in Splinter Cell 3. The game also features a different versus mode (Spy Vs Spy) mode compared to the next-gen Spy Vs Mercs mode of the 360 version)

Double Agent Xbox also has a different take on the JBA HQ, in the Xbox version you're actually armed with non lethal weapons (knock out taser rounds) and have to perform timed button press sequences if caught.

Just to show that I'm not blowing smoke out of my nose as well:

Link to review of both 360 and Xbox versions of Chaos Theory (not by me) [acegamez.co.uk]

So yeah, my comment about Double Agent's mp co-op still stands since I found it a lot of fun. I agree regarding Chaos Theory's 4 (with 2 extra downloadable) missions being short. Chaos Theory was the first game to introduce co-op moves however that rely on proper co-operation.

isukun
Possibly, although I just found Ultimate Alliance generally wasn't as fun as the previous two games. For some reason, it just felt like the games got less entertaining with each new title. The first game just played more like a beat'em up and then the others started feeling a little more generic in their approach. Ultimate Alliance didn't have as interesting level design and the combat seemed to devolve into using the same canned combos over and over. I found I used the environment a lot more in Xmen Legends (throw items at enemies, throw enemies into walls/off cliffs, bust through walls, etc).

I liked Marvel UA, but I preferred Xmen Legends I and II a lot better. Good co-op games.

Wasn't the Justice League game co-operative as well?

SarahN
If you don't know for these older systems, then I'd still like to know about ones on the newer systems so I can have something to look forward to later. XD

Xbox360, currently game wise co-op seems to be one of those things that's on a resurgence. The highly anticipated (by me) Mercernaries 2 is coming with full co-op through the whole story.

Saint's Row 2 will have full co-op.

Fable 2 has a very interesting co-op planned.

Currently I've played/been playing on the 360 these co-op enabled titles.

Rainbow Six Vegas
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (much much better)
GRAW
GRAW 2
Army of Two

(Chaos Theory and Double Agent (xbox1 versions) are backwards compatible with 360, so I've also been playing those)

Turok (has online co-op missions only)

Halo3, full co-op as per Halo and Halo2.

I hear that Eragon (similar to the LotR action games) is co-op and so is Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders (online co-op only)

Hopefully this whets your appetite :)

Someone said Baldur's Gate.

I second that. Excellent game is excellent.

Lord Shplane
Someone said Baldur's Gate.

I second that. Excellent game is excellent.

I third it as well, a lot of those D&D hack/slashers were quite fun.

Army of Two- the ULTIMATE co-op game, i mean hey it has it in the title.

Or for the old school
Contra Series- classic 2 player action
Double Dragon or River city Ransom- beat em up gold, platinum when in co-op

It's confirmed that both Mercenaries 2 and Saint's Row 2 will feature co-op multiplayer campaigns. Army of Two is an excellent game on next gen for cooperative play (totally agreed Jinachi)