Good co-op offline games

Hi - my wife has expressed interest in (finally) playing some co-op games with me so I wonder what are some good games to get.....

I have thought of GoW2, L4D 2, Halo 3, Top Spin 3 (only sports game she will play) and Resdident Evil 5.......are there any others?

Also - are they generally split-screen? or are you able to both be on-screen (when playing off-line)?

Thanks :)

MW2 Spec ops is great co-op. If you have online Halo 3 is the only game I can think of that has guests. Halo ODST has great co-op and it has that firefight game mode where you face waves of enemies. Call of duty World at War has Nazi zombies where you face waves of zombies.

Those are off the top of my head. I'll let you know if I think of anything else.

Final Fight: Double Impact.

Perfect Dark (XBLA)

Lost Planet 2

Borderlands

Castle Crashers is just a smash-up good time! Download that and the two of you will never look to mature FPS titles for coop again! OK, that's a lie, but it'll keep you plenty occupied and entertained to say the least.

If you're in to comic books I think that Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 or 2 are must have games when looking at offline co-op. They're both really really fun and have a great story.

gears of war 1 and 2 both have tremendous co-op, 2 also has horde mode that's fun to play with two people. CoD WaW's nazi zombies can keep two people entertained endlessly, along with MW2's spec ops mode. Any halo game is also great for co-op, including the upcoming Reach. If you're looking for a game focused solely on co-op, Army of Two definitely gets the job done.

Funnily enough I've been looking for the same sort of thing for the same reason! My fiance loved Splinter Cell: Conviction, enjoyed Vegas 2 and had a laugh with ODST (the firefight mode went well!). I've been recommended Earth Defence Force 2017 by a lot of people.

I have thought of GoW2, L4D 2, Halo 3, Top Spin 3 (only sports game she will play) and Resdident Evil 5.......are there any others?

Also - are they generally split-screen? or are you able to both be on-screen (when playing off-line)?

Thanks :)

craigkelleigh

I don't know about top spin but all the other games you listed support split screen. And I recommend all the games you listed although I think Left 4 Dead 2 would be much more enjoyable with 4-players(meaning you'd need to go online to find the other two). I'd say the same for the original Left 4 Dead.

Not a deal breaker, but what is annoying is if you're playing a wide screen in Halo 3 or Resident Evil 5 they do not split the screen like normal. Halo 3 puts two bars on the sides of the screen making the picture a 4:3 aspect ratio(a square like old tvs) and then it cuts that picture in half. Resident Evil 5 does something similar except instead of stacking the pictures like normal, each one goes on a different corners of the screen. Player one is on the upper left corner of the screen and player 2 is on the bottom right. Another thing thats odds is that player 2's character is to the far right of the picture when typically in third person shooters the player's character is on the far left.

If you play with a wide screen then I recommend only using a large tv for Halo 3 and Resident Evil 5 because of the way they cut the screen each players' view is smaller than normal so on a small screen like a twenty inch split screen is a no no for these games. Same goes for Halo 3: ODST. I recommend it, it's fun, but it crops the screen in the same fashion of Halo 3 so if you intend to play on a wide screen, make sure it's a big one. Call of Duty: World at War is another one I recommend but it's the same case as RE5 where you have two small boxes on the top left and bottom right of the screen if you're using a wide screen, so make sure your screen is big. Gears of War is another good game, and like Gears 2 it's good on wide screen.

I'd recommend more games but these are the only co-op ones I've played locally. I played and enjoyed the co-op in Army of Two, Army of Two: The 40th Day, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Unreal Tournament III, Rainbow Six Vegas, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 over xbox live but I can't speak of the offline experience.

You're better off asking this in the recommendation thread.