Everybody needs a copy of the game, a console, a TV and an internet connection. Trouble is, you can’t roll co-op with friends on the same screen. In its multiplayer cooperative mode, players drive together through the game’s sprawling city with a variety of tasks: rip donuts in a particular parking lot, then set up a super-stunt where everyone crashes into each other in mid-air, etc.
These details are what we gamers beg for from so many developers, but I still have a bone to pick with Paradise. Paradise‘s developers have even given away bunches of free, downloadable bonuses. With fewer loading pauses, the game doesn’t halt between races. Stunt-racing masterpiece Burnout Paradise gets all the little things right. As we transition into massive, online-only team games, our second, third and fourth controllers are collecting dust.
It’s not dead – how’s that Wii, Grandma and Grandpa? – but these days, too many top-tier games are scrapping options for extra buddies to play in the same room, on the same couch, like we did for marathon sessions of GoldenEye.
In spite of über-powerful game systems, local multiplayer is falling by the wayside.
