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Great Co-Op games?

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Sanjuro

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Just going over a friends new house, hoping you guys could come up with some good ideas for great co-op games. Could be RPG co-op, action co-op, anything! I do have a good knowledge of games, just maybe I missed one or one that is not as well known.

Also these games are for ANY console.
 
Halo
Halo 2
Timesplitters 2
Timesplitters 3
Lego Star Wars
Baldurs Gate : Dark Alliance 1 & 2 are also both pretty cool
 
-Ratchet&Clank: UYA is outstanding split-screen co-op online.

-MetalSlug 3
-Zelda 4-Sword ...doesn't get much better than that
-Ikaruga
 
Any console?

Forgotten Worlds.
Double Dragon (still kicks a bit of ass to this day)
Ikari Warriors (arcade version if ya got it)
Contra 3 The Alien Wars (awesome, awesome game)
 
Kuri Kuri Mix (known as 'the adventures of cookies and cream' in the USA I think) for double bunny action.

Bubble Bobble. The original co-op game.
 
sammy said:
-MetalSlug 3
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I think this is the other big one for me.

Of course, Golden Axe, SoR2, and Time Crisis as well.

Bomberman is a fantastic team game, not sure if that'd fall under the 'co-op' category though.
 
I haven't played in a while, but I think Gradius V has a two-player co-op mode for some great old-school shoot-em-up action. I might be wrong though.
 
sammy said:
-Ratchet&Clank: UYA is outstanding split-screen co-op online.
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I didn't know it had that feature... Which levels are co-op, the whole single player game? And how is it both splitscreen co-op and online?

Or do you just mean you can play two people online from one PS2 in the multiplayer mode?
 
Me and a friend had an absolute blast the other night playing 'Mashed' on the PS2. Great driving-fighting game where you try to race each other off the screen.
 
Vitten said:
Me and a friend had an absolute blast the other night playing 'Mashed' on the PS2. Great driving-fighting game where you try to race each other off the screen.
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Is that the game where four people can play using two controllers or something? I think I saw it on XPlay. Looked pretty cool.
 
I don't like tooting my own horn for past projects, but (and if you can find two carts) Racing Gears Advance is built for co-op from the ground up.

And if you want something that's co-op, puzzly, and occasionally hair-pulling, Adventures of Cookie and Cream on the PS2 fits the mold nicely.
 
Can't forget about Pocky and Rocky (and the sequel) either!

Some good Co-Op gameplay in that series.
 
Teddman said:
I didn't know it had that feature... Which levels are co-op, the whole single player game? And how is it both splitscreen co-op and online?

Or do you just mean you can play two people online from one PS2 in the multiplayer mode?
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1 Console, 2 player split screen online in multiplayer. The single player campaign is not playable by 2 people in co-op mode (though the upcoming Ratchet : Deadlocked will include that feature). :D


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River City Ransom 4TW
 
Sven Co-Op for HL1 was VERY good... can't wait till they finish Sven Co-Op2!!!!


Swat4 is awesome as well, but u need 4-5players to fully enjoy that.



Any other suggestions for co-op PC games? Here's my set up at home...
1 x decent PC (ATi 9600 xt)
1 x decent laptop (ATi 9200 mob)
1 x crappy computer (gf4 mx)
 
Crazymoogle said:
And if you want something that's co-op, puzzly, and occasionally hair-pulling, Adventures of Cookie and Cream on the PS2 fits the mold nicely.
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My buddy and I are playing this currently. I don't know how the fuck some one who is not musically inclined is going to get passed the keyboard :lol

We had trouble and both of us have played music all our lives :lol
 
Alien Hominid

both MAT collections

Timesplitters 2 and 3

and, of course, LoZ: Four Sword Adventures... if you can muster up enough GBA systems.

Oh oh... Mario Kart: Double Dash!
 
System Shock 2

And then, yeah, the brawlers and the shooters.


Metal Slug 3 actaully ain't that great in co-op in my experience. Of course, my experience has been playing with people who didn't really know what they were doing and all the weight fell to me. My patterns don't work as well in 2 player.

Another one that can really suck in co-op is Contra Shattered Soldier. Both you fuckers better be exactly as good and be on the exact same page, cuz the windows and timing stay the same, but enemy life is doubled.

I tried to play Contra SS with Dark10x once, assuming he knew what the fuck to do. I was inches away from S rank on solo, and he was still going through the levels dodging things. Soon as he blew the center of the first mini boss, preventing me from destroying all four arms, I flipped out and we haven't played again.



Edit: I also dig Time Crisis 2 & 3 in co-op. Nothing like getting triple my teammate's score and being an ass about it at every scene tally.
 
Gauntlet II - NES or perhaps an emulator

Splinter Cell: CT - Don't trust Live, just find a friend you know already. Run and gun or actually try to get through without being seen or raising alarm.

The Xbox D&D Heroes is fine, I can't imagine that it's any more than $20.
 
You an me had some good times with Halo, didn't we? I miss those days.

Planetside can be great co-op. Or, it used to have the capacity for great co-op. Then everything got fucked up. Me an Dark taking down bases as dual cloakers.
"Give me 50!"


Gain Ground on the Genny or arcade is also really good.


Edit: Xybots bitches!
 
Careful of Cookie and Cream -- I bought it on recommendation from this board in a previous thread like this, but it turned out to frustrate my girlfriend and I more often than not. Some of the game mechanics are just infuriating, and the controls can sometimes cause a headache too. I wouldn't recommend it.

Four Swords is the most fun co-op game I've ever played. It's too bad there's some hardware requirements to overcome.
 
human5892 said:
Careful of Cookie and Cream -- I bought it on recommendation from this board in a previous thread like this, but it turned out to frustrate my girlfriend and I more often than not. Some of the game mechanics are just infuriating, and the controls can sometimes cause a headache too. I wouldn't recommend it.

Four Swords is the most fun co-op game I've ever played. It's too bad there's some hardware requirements to overcome.
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I always recommend Cookie & Cream in these threads. I do agree the controls are a bit rough, and it's sometimes hard not to get frustrated when you're doing good yourself while you're friend is failing. But I still think it's a great co-op game. The canoe part in the ice level had me and my friend laughing constantly, because we were going round in circles over and over and over again. :lol

But after a number of tries and some communication, we actually got the technique down and had some great cooperation going. That canoe level felt like the definition of co-op for me, and the kind of experience that would be very hard to reproduce online.
 
Kiriku said:
The canoe part in the ice level had me and my friend laughing constantly, because we were going round in circles over and over and over again. :lol
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Oh man -- that's the exact part that made us give up on the game for good! :lol

Different strokes, I suppose. It made you guys laugh, and us really angry at each other. :lol
 
X-Men Legends.. if you want a nice long game with decenty story.

Either TimeSplitters 2 or 3

TMNT: Battle Nexus while not a great game, it is a decent co-op game. And its turtles.
 
Serious Sam (PC)
Dungeon Siege (PC)
Neverwinter Nights (very very good co-op) (PC)
Dungeons and Dragons Heroes (Xbox)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicals (GC)
Pikmin 2 (GC)

If you really want to go back in time, ALIEN BREED. If you don't want to go back that far, get the Alien Swarm TC for UT2K4.
 
human5892 said:
Oh man -- that's the exact part that made us give up on the game for good! :lol

Different strokes, I suppose. It made you guys laugh, and us really angry at each other. :lol
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For me it was both. When the game is good, I want to shake the designer's hand. When it's bad I want to kick him in the nuts. Stuff like the canoe was actually really easy; when the game gets bad it's usually due to the ridiculously large bounding box on the character when it comes to taking hits.
 
Samurai Warriors (XB,PS2)
Dynasty Warriors 3/4/5 (XB,PS2)
Metal Slug 3 (XB, PS2)
Halo/Halo 2 (XB)
Rebel Strike (GC)
TMNT In Time(SNES)
Snow Bros (NES)
 
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