We sure do love our contests around here. So with that I present to you the latest contest from Co-Optimus.com. Last week Assault Heroes 2 was released for the Xbox Live Arcade. The game is a top down shooter featuring 2 player co-op play via Xbox Live.
The 'Lost in Blue' games have had some success on the Nintendo DS. This fall, the survival adventure series will make the jump from handheld to home console with 'Lost in Blue: Shipwrecked" for the Wii. The game sounds like a mix of Survivor, Lost, and the Harvest Moon titles. Players are stranded on a mysterious island, and must learn how to survive. The Wii remote will be used for all sorts of survival related tasks, such as making weapons, and constructing a shelter. Of course, there is a whole island to explore, and players may eventually discover a way to escape the island, if they choose not to stay permanently. Co-op details are very, very sparse as of yet:
In case you missed it in the hustle and bustle of this past week's co-opapalooza, Joystiq has some impressions of Valve's Left 4 Dead (for the 360 and PC). The team at Joystiq seem impressed, particularly with the terror that the Infected (the zombies in Left 4 Dead) can inflict.
Ahhh...finally the jokes about not being able to see clearly can stop. There's one cooperative title coming out this week and it's Haze from Free Radical on the Playstation 3.
There won't be any running away from this title. The Behemoth have announced that development on Castle Crashers is complete, and that the title is no going to go through final stages including certification. That's the good news.
When I'm not busy playing games with you fine folks, I'm usually busy working on adding site features and improvements. Today I bring you not one, but two site additions.
Beat World Tour with a few friends in Rock Band? Shredded faces with a buddy in Guitar Hero 3? Lost pounds of water by sweating too much when you challenge your friends is Dance Dance Revolution? If you have, you likely already have a huge number of peripherals around the house. In addition to being in the way, those suckers are really expensive. But hey, at least it's a one time investment right?
Last night we held our first official Xbox Live Co-Op Night. The co optimus gamertag quickly filled up before the night even started, so I knew this was going to be something special. I tried to jump into as many matches as I could, but it was good to see people using the friends of friends feature to find other co-op gamers!
The original Gears of War is still the cream of the crop in terms of co-op. Integrated story, drop in/drop out, branching paths and more make it the cooperative game every video game should want to be. So it comes as no surprise that the expectations are high for Gears of War 2's offering.
Fable 2 has been years in the making, but it's only recently that we started to get details of the game's cooperative mode. We know that the game will support another player in a drop in/drop out fashion on the same console. We know that this player can have an incredible effect on your game world - killing loved ones for example.
Too Human has been quite the popular game in the past few days. We've had an interview with Denis Dyack, some great screenshots, and a nice co-op vid. So, it's not suprising that other sites have their own impressions of the game. 1up has some wonderfully critical impressions, where they both lament the cut from 4 to 2-player co-op, but at the same time welcome the game's similarity to Diablo. IGN also details the game, saying:
Just a reminder folks that the first official Xbox Live Co-Op Night is TOMORROW May 15th! That's right, we've partnered with the fine folks from Microsoft for an official service wide co-op night! So how do you get in on the action?
