the best splitscreen multiplayer game ever

Twisted Metal 2 (I've spent the most time on)

Followed by:
Super Mario Kart,
Mario Kart 64,
SSX Tricky,
Twisted Metal Black,
Twisted Metal: Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition,
Halo 3 (co-op and deathmatch),
Vigilante 8

Overall I prefer single player or online/LAN for multiplayer for the chance to use a whole screen for playing.

Perfect Dark for n64. It took everything Goldeneye had and added aliens and so much more.whet40

Same, but Goldeneye is still in my top 5.

Timesplitters 2 or Timesplitters: Future Perfect. Made by the team that made Perfect Dark... only this time running at 60fps instead of 5-10.foxhound_fox

every halo game, nuff saidErnieboii

I agree with the comments about the original Perfect Dark and Timesplitters, although TS2 was significantly better than TS3. TS3 had a few nice features, but the gameplay was slowed to almost the Halo pace, and some of the weapons were lamed up for sake of "balance."

I'm not a fan of the trend to balance weapons. If the placement is strategic, I have no problem with outright superior weapons (so long as it is not absolutely impossible to overcome them.)

Weapon balancing is just one of numerous trends that have come about as a result of online gaming. I wish someone would cater to the splitscreen crowd (which is still probably just as popular as online... but gets nowhere near the attention.)

Maybe TS4 will be the best splitscreen multiplayer game of all time... unfortunately, I expect free-rad will compromise the game for online play in much the way that they did for TS3.

Top three:

Twisted Metal 2

Perfect Dark

Dragonball Z Tekachi or w/e