These days it seems like developers are taking the addition of co-op content in their games seriously. We’re not just talking about some thrown-together levels, either—when Valve released Left 4 Dead to the world, the game was designed from the ground up to be played with three friends.
Even the venerable Resident Evil series has taken a turn for the co-op. The Xbox Live demo of Resident Evil 5 plays best when you have a good friend shooting the zombies with you, and Capcom told us directly at CES 2009 that co-op was the “recommended” way to play the game. A large part of the success of Gears of War 2 can be found online, as gamers team up to play the campaign and kill wave after wave of the Locust in Horde mode.
The problem is that some gamers claim they don’t have friends they can play with, or they simply can’t get a game together. That excuse holds no water with the tools available today.
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