Me and my housemate are looking for some good (local) co-op games to play. I'm open to all genres, since all we've been doing so far is blasting through FPS' like Perfect Dark Zero, Halo 2 and 3, and had some fun on CoD: World at War (although our disc is faulty and keeps crashing). Would be good to move away from the FPS genre if possible, though most of the games we've bought or looked at seem to be online multiplayer only. Thanks in advance for any ideas.

- Gears of War 1 and 2
- Ghostbusters
- Fable 2 (Fun but easy)
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance
- Halo 3 (meh)

Resident Evil 5! Lego Star Wars!

Left 4 Dead is fun, but you might want to wait for Left 4 Dead 2. But I don't think Valve will shaft everyone who bought the original game by making you pay full price for the sequel.

I borrowed Fable 2 off my brother the other week and have been playing it quite a lot, but I was under the impression it was only online multiplayer? If not, and I can get my housemate interested in it, that could be good fun. Halo 3 was good when we did our first run-through together, but I don't think I'd find much interest in playing it again. Ultimate Alliance was one I was definitely thinking of picking up. Lego Star Wars is another good shout.

I'm unsure about Left 4 Dead. I've been lurking around the message board for it over on GameFAQs occasionally and it seems like the most fun you get out of it is playing online, and we can't (and I won't) pay to venture into that cess pool!

Thanks for the advice so far.

Who cares about COOP when you have Worms 2? That's the only game you need, and yes it's single-console multiplayer (hell, if it's like Worms 1, it's single-CONTROLLER multiplayer).

I tried RE5 recently (360), and I can see why it has co-op in mind. The companion AI is so. damn. retarded.

"Don't mind me! I'll just pick up these mines you placed on the ground!"

Also ROCK BAND / (insert other famous rhythm franchise here)

graw 2 has a big coop campaign

try world of warcraft

Funnily enough, my housemate bought the first one because it was on sale for £5 not two days ago. Might give it a go, see if I can get into it.

Aye it does have offline multiplayer, though only one can actually create the character. The second will serve as a henchman. Plug in a controller and hit start to bring up the co-op setup screen. If your housemate has his own gamer id, he can choose to start his own fable 2 campaign, beat the kid prologue and then save. Then once you get him to join as henchman, he can choose to select his save. While he'll have only the appearance of a henchman, cannot actually play any mini-games, buy anything, etc. he will be able to assist you in combat, and select his own set of attributes and abilities. If he doesn't have his own save game, the henchman will just be a mirror copy of your own character.

The camera takes some getting used too though.



Definately a must buy for co-op fun. Especially considering how cheap it is nowadays. I got might for 10$ (CAN)

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if the devs aren't completely retarded Serious Sam HD will have the co-op we all remember from the PC versions

All the Lego games are loads of fun, I think Lego Indiana Jones is best. It's a shame so few games have local co-op, opting for online play instead.

I vote for Gears of War 1 & 2 as well. I got marvel ultimate alliance for free with my xbox and after the first few levels we realized that the game totally sucked and it wasn't worth playing at all.

Is it not any good at all? I was thinking of getting it, it seems like a fun coop RPG thing. What's bad about it? It has a good Gamespot review. Is there anything similar that's better?

Pay full price for the sequel!?

I AM LAUGHING AT YOUR SILLINESS

Well at the very least Steam preorders will get the same kind of 10% discount as L4D did. And it's already confirmed they'll get early demo access.

It should be an addon pack and for that I will not buy it.

Please take any game review Brian gives with a grain of slat. I don't think there are any games that he's liked recently.

It's a beat-em-up game like final fight or something. It wasn't just me, everyone who came over and thought it looked interesting played it and then stopped after a short while because it's the same crap over and over, and the crap isn't fun in the first place so why would you want to do it over and over? Gears 1 & 2 are like that, where you kill people over and over, but they make it fun to kill people.