Co-op games

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Bowielee

Bowielee

So, I'm wondering what are some good co-op games out there for the PS3, PC or Wii.
Any genre will do. I'm looking for some games to play with my best friend.

I already have the Rock Band/Guitar Hero games. I particularly liked the Co-op on Red Alert 3 and was hoping that maybe there were some other good co-op RTSs out there, but any genre is welcome.
 
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Alucard

Well for PS3 I would recommend Little Big Planet. It's great with a bunch of friends playing co operatively together. The other would be Army of 2:40th Day. Its slightly cheesy but otherwise great for co op stuff. Other than that don't know
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Yeah, I already have LBP, and we've pretty much played out on that one. Army of 2 looks interesting, but I don't think I can sell him on straight up military games unless their RTSs. I hear that RE5's co-op is really good, can anyone confirm?
 
phil

phil

Bowielee said:
Yeah, I already have LBP, and we've pretty much played out on that one. Army of 2 looks interesting, but I don't think I can sell him on straight up military games unless their RTSs. I hear that RE5's co-op is really good, can anyone confirm?
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My old roommate and I played it and it was pretty decently fun. There was at least once when we stayed up until about 5 am under the assumption that we would just do this one next part then quit....ok this one next part.

If your friend likes zombies then Call of duty: World at War has a nazi zombie mode that you can unlock once you beat the game. The main game is kinda meh but Nazi Zombies is loads of fun. My old roommates had our own leader board for which teams of 2 could get to the highest round in each level.
 
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Zumbo Prime

I didn't play much, but Nazi Zombies was fairly fun, if you knew what you were doing. If you mean Campaign Co-Op, I'm really not sure. I really think only Army of Two, Halo 3 and Gears of War 2 for the 360 have it, of the games with decent reputations. Of course, I'm likely forgetting a couple obvious games.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

When you say co-op, do you mean playing side by side, in the same room, on the same machine? Because the L4D games immediately spring to mind, but you need two separate machines for that.
 
figmentPez

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bhamv3 said:
When you say co-op, do you mean playing side by side, in the same room, on the same machine? Because the L4D games immediately spring to mind, but you need two separate machines for that.
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Yes, Left 4 Dead (1 or 2)! Especially on PC. Lots of people on these forums to play with. Feel free to invite me to a match anytime.
 
GasBandit

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There are lots of great co-op games for PC (some of which also cross over to platform).

Left 4 Dead has already been mentioned, 1 and 2 and both good, but 2 is harder than 1.
Most of the Battlefield series is fun to play co-op against bots. Avoid BF:Vietnam or BF:2142 though. The others are good. Even ol' BF1942. I still play it from time to time, especially with the Desert Combat mod.
The Serious Sam series is an absolute riot to play co-op.
You can call the Unreal Tournament series co-op, as you can put both humans on one side and fill the other side with bots.
Call of Duty: World at War has a co-op campaign, and it's not bad. It suffers from "the world is brown and bloom" though.
Borderlands. Borderlands borderlands BORDERLANDS.
Neverwinter Nights series... for that matter, Baldur's Gate series, though the multiplayer isn't as good in BG1. NWN1 was better than NWN2.


All of the above I play/played with the little woman.

Technically, most RTSes these days can be "co-op" because they have maps that can support up to 8 or more players, and you can set teams. So it can be humans vs AI. The best of the genre currently is the Supreme Commander series, though the Dawn of War series is also a lot of fun. Demigod is also good, and it's a lot shorter and less involved.

Other games I know of that support co-op (but I never tried):
Saints Row 2
Marvel Ultimate Alliance series
Zeno Clash


If you are interested in info about co-op games, try http://www.co-optimus.com
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

I guess I should clarify a bit, I'm not looking so much for co-op PVP, but more co-op of a single player, like Resistance: Fall of Man, you can play through the main campaign with a split screen, and with Red Alert 3, you can play through the missions co-operatively. I do appreciate the suggestions.

I had absolutely NO idea that Zeno Clash had a co-op mode.

I'll have to try to get him to get Borderlands, because I've been itching to play that game.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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All I can say is you might want to broaden your parameters a bit. For example, the little woman and I often spend hours playing BF1942 with the Desert Combat mod, just her and I and 48 bots. Most often we play El Alamein, and I end up being the pilot in an Apache with her as my gunner. Crank the ticket ratio up to max, and you can play for hours trying to defend outposts from an onrushing horde of Iraqi republican guard. It's a very fun co-op experience. In fact, when setting up the match, it explicitly calls this game mode "Co-op."

If you want a campaign with a story, though, most of what I posted fulfills that. Serious Sam Co-op is the single player campaign, as is CoD:WaW, Borderlands, NWN, Saints Row 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance.
 
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Chibibar

hylian said:
New Super Mario Bros. Wii has a co-op mode for up to 4 players at once
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only if you don't like your friends ;) or like them a lot. My friends play it and we get this "one guy" who happens to be a total mario nut and just leave everyone else behind and grab most of the power ups.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Chibibar;333428][QUOTE=hylian said:
New Super Mario Bros. Wii has a co-op mode for up to 4 players at once
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only if you don't like your friends ;) or like them a lot. My friends play it and we get this "one guy" who happens to be a total mario nut and just leave everyone else behind and grab most of the power ups.[/QUOTE]

My mother got this game for Christmas and she my sister and I went through the whole game in the space of 2 days. I'm the Mario veteran so in many places they just decided to pop into bubbles and let me handle all the more tricky platforming.
 
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