Comments on: No cozy splitscreen action in Shadowrun

By: Moonbase0ne

Moonbase0ne — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:12:07 +0000

Wow! A game that relies on team work, and you leave out split screen? Not everyone has Live or play online. So, for them, what’s the point of owning this game?

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:40:26 +0000

Right because I just love lugging my 360 and a TV to my friend’s house and finding a place to plug it in.

Iow (to use Curry’s phrase I finally deciphered the meaning of): wrong answer.

By: Phocas

Phocas — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:12:36 +0000

I really don’t care. All of my friends have 360’s and if they want to play at my house they have to bring theirs over. Coming from the PC gaming side I loathe splitscreen.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:32:29 +0000

I had two friends over, had one bring LP (he bought from the store, I pre-ordered) and we were all set to play, no dice. It’s also something my sister and I would enjoy playing against each other.

By: Zanch

Zanch — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:04:38 +0000

Sounds to me like split-screen is something that they’ll offer as a download in the future. If they’ve already done a good deal of work on it there’s no reason why they couldn’t. Also, Crackdown would not have worked in split-screen. It takes a whole hell of a lot of processing power to render a city that size and to render it twice on one screen would be an impossibility.

By: x El Scorpio x

x El Scorpio x — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:26:27 +0000

1. Not necessarily in the open world, time trials would be good in split-screen

2. It’s not cell-shaded

By: x El Scorpio x

x El Scorpio x — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:25:35 +0000

wtf, Lost Planet too? Damn that’s stupid

By: x El Scorpio x

x El Scorpio x — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:25:20 +0000

boo! I might have bought it if it got good ratings & had split-screen, but I’ve had enough games with no local mutliplayer.

By: SilentAssassn87

SilentAssassn87 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:20:43 +0000

True to some extent, but for this game particularly, xboxic had an article: http://www.xboxic.com/news/2470 that says the 360 controller users owned the W,A,S,D Keyboard and mouse users.

By: EUP]-[ORIC

EUP]-[ORIC — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:14:37 +0000

By the way, I would hate to have to play against someone with a mouse and keyboard, If I do get this it would be on the PC all the way. W,A,S,D owns any console controller any day.

By: EUP]-[ORIC

EUP]-[ORIC — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:12:47 +0000

I think I played split screen once when Xbox360 launched back on 11/22/05. No loss here. Isn’t this the game that you can also play PC players with also. That to me will be a milestone in itself.

By: Karlos Antiqueros

Karlos Antiqueros — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:12:30 +0000

crackdown couldnt benefit from split screen cuz who wants to share a screen on a wide open city like that, all it does is cut down on the cell shaded sexyness.

By: Jmel

Jmel — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:19:04 +0000

Thanks for the stunning commentary Fred.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:48:40 +0000

I’m getting sick of this. Lost Planet and Crackdown were also games that could have benefitted from splitscreen.