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Resident Evil 5 - Splitscreen Co-op Video

OXM UK has posted a video showing Resident Evil 5's splitscreen co-op in action.

The video was recorded from the demo that was released on Xbox 360's Japanese Marketplace today and focuses on a brief encounter towards the end of the Shanty Town area.

riksweeney6425d ago (Edited 6425d ago )

It's interesting how they've off-centered the screens. It does make it a lot easier to see what's going on though. I'm glad they've kept the aspect ratio correct and not tried to stretch it to fit the screen, but obviously you'll need a decent TV to get the most out of it.

But most importantly of all, I'm glad that I can play the co-op offline. I don't have two controllers for nothing.

Cwalat6424d ago

lol, that is just pure propaganda...

the outstreched splitscreen version is better, why?

because you can see something...

take COD:WAW for an example, the spliscreen is divided like this demo... but what happens when you play it on a 40" LCD?
you see nada, absolutely nothing that's over 20 feet from you...

they better go back to fullscreen attachment, or they are gonna have an angry fan mokking them...

thor6424d ago

I don't see WTF is wrong with using the entire screen. Why not have it like it always was? With one player on top, and the other on the bottom. Too much effort is it? Wipeout had great split-screen and it didn't need to shrink each person's view. It's hard enough to see as it is, why do I want the screen shrunk even more? It makes zero sense. It's not like it's really even an advantage online (if that's the reason) because it's a bigger advantage to be able to see someone else's screen. There should at least be the option to change it. And I can't see that anyone, given the option, wouldn't want it to take up the entire screen.

pornflakes6424d ago

The 360 version will be superior! Just like all capcom titles are better on 360 than the PS3. for this gen you need only 3 cores @ 3.2 ghz and a great GFX.

The pS3 has on the PAPER the better cpu but the RSX sux hard. Same if you would get a Geforce 1 and 512 MB RAM with a quad core CPU. The games would look like crap..

Pennywise6424d ago

With your wisdom, I wish you have 10 bubbles to spread the knowledge. /s

Yoma6424d ago

Because of the very limited hardware the console they programe the game to, they are able to use the spu helping calculate graphic. The PC is upgradeable, so a graphic card is used only then

Daver6424d ago

I dont get why it is like that, why splitscreen is not full screen anymore? COD 5 is the same thing... Is it taking too much ressource to make it "full split screen"?
Anyone can explain? thanks

riksweeney6424d ago

I guess they either had a choice of stretching the image horizontally (no way), or just showing a lot more to the left and right of the player (more than what you'd see in single player).

I don't think vertical split screen would work so they decided to do this weird off-center thing.

thor6424d ago

I don't really know. I think (and this is a complete guess) that they add in split-screen as a last-minute feature (remember R2 didn't have confirmed split-screen until a month before launch) and as such they can't be bothered to change the aspect ratios and set up all the weapons etc. so that they look right on a different sized screen. If they do it this way, simply shrinking the view and not changing the aspect ratio, they don't have to worry about much - it will just look right and they won't have to change anything.

I think it also comes from the complaints about the side-by-side split that was so common earlier this gen - so instead of doing a top/bottom split which is best, they opted for this because the view really is very wide with the top/botttom split.

It's a shame really because I like the game to take up my whole TV.

Daver6424d ago

@2.2

yea me too when i play a coop game i want it to be full screen not 3/4 resistance 2 disappointed me for this too

iistuii6424d ago

sports games, i really cant see why anyone would wanna play in split screen. It's crap, especially now online play is so good on xbox live and games are now putting in co-op.

thor6424d ago

How can you POSSIBLY say that? Do you think I would rather:

a) Play split-screen with my siblings/friends when they come over
b) Convince all my friends to buy PS3s, buy another 2 PS3s and a couple more HDTVs for my house, upgrade my internet connection [which would cost an absolute bomb since my connection is the fastest I can get at the moment] so I can play online with 3 consoles at once without lag, and then play against my siblings & friends without being able to see them, relying on voice chat to communicate.

Split-screen is FUN! How can you say it's not fun! Seriously, when your friends come over, do you want to have to take it in turns and swap over the controller to play a game? Sure, it's fun to play online, but it's a lot better to play against someone who's right next to you, and even better yet to have split-screen online. Online gaming can often feel like a solitary thing because you're playing against strangers most of the time. Sure, they might be on your friends list, but they aren't always your real-life friends.

0verdrive6424d ago

agreed with thor.

not everyone is the only person who plays games in the house. what about all the people with siblings or roommates? online is nice because it gives people who would normally play alone the option to play with other people, but as thor said, theres nothing better than playing with friends sitting next to you. also, online has technical setbacks, and its also easier to communicate with something sitting next to you than talking to someone online.

iistuii6424d ago

On one point and thats yes loads of mates round, loads of beer and a fifa tournament or pes as it used to be, but you cant enjoy playing on half a screen?, not too bad co-op, however if your on mp, you just look at the other persons half and bingo, you know where each other is, no suprises. And even racing games, it just does my eyes in trying to keep focused on my side of the screen, no sorry, rockband, sports games , anything that needs full screen for me.

thor6424d ago

You obviously don't have siblings who also want to play. I can see that if all your friends have PS3s/360s and play games quite often then it's another option to play them online - but you can't do that with brothers and sisters obviously. I generally sit quite close to the TV to play - but then, it's not really that bad to watch it from afar, I mean I used to play 3- and 4-player split on a 14" TV! It's better than having friends round and taking turns for sure.

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thesoftware730131d ago

I Love RE:5, give me a remake!!

SimpleDad131d ago

So the most successful RE is the one where a white man is killing Africans.
This can't be real.

bryght130d ago

i love resident evil from 2006

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__y2jb146d ago

Capcom's willingness to invest in experiments and scrap them sets them apart form many other developers (Nintendo have a similar methodology). Far too often companies push a game setting or game mechanic that is just not that good and the final product is middling or poor.

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Neonridr170d ago

I mean 0, 1 and Code Veronica should be way before we get into 5 or 6.

Darkseeker170d ago

5 and 6 are so bad that even Capcom want to pretend they don't exist.

Levii_92170d ago

Dude Code Veronica is bad too but RE5 and 6 were mega successful and to me it makes much more sense for Capcom to do them instead. Nobody cares about Code Veronica except niche fixed camera era RE fans, i bet most modern RE fans probably don't know Code Veronica even exists. Based on all that i don't believe CV remake is coming but we will see i guess.

MehmetAlperTR170d ago (Edited 170d ago )

Actually RE5-6 was not Classic RE game.. They are not even Survival Horror game.. They are just an action game with coop and named by RE... And for me RE Code Veronica was masterpiece.. I remembered the first time i played it in Dreamcast.. It was absouletly excellent game. And specially for RE6.. I was quit from game after the camera shakes when Leon's kick to zombies.. There's a video about RE6 and they are telling the truth about that shitty game https://www.youtube.com/wat... here it is.. Enjoy it..

Neonridr170d ago

people are DYING for a Code Veronica Remake. Not sure who you are talking to, but the die-hard RE fans of the series are very familiar with every entry. That's what it means to be called a die-hard fan.

neutralgamer1992170d ago

Levii

I am sure If they were to remake CV that it 2ont have fixed camera angle. I hope whatever they do they take their time like RE2/4 remakes and not rushed with cut content like RE3 remake

Before they should do RE5 they should go back and remake earlier games. In a perfect scenario we would get CV and RE/Zero before RE5/6

Tapani170d ago

Code Veronica on Dreamcast was absolutely AWESOME.

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LucasRuinedChildhood170d ago (Edited 170d ago )

It makes more sense for them to remake earlier games like Code Veronica. RE5 is a good game though - it's not THAT different from RE4.

RE5 just doesn't really need to remade in general. The co-op element makes it tricky - you'd probably add more moments where Chris is by himself enhance the horror but some would want co-op to stay.

thesoftware730170d ago

RE:5 Was and still is a great game, with hands down the best Merc mode, that I still play from time to time with my brother.

RE:6 blah, I agree, it was awful.

Redgrave170d ago

Other than Code Veronica, 6 is the one ai want to see remade the most only because pretty much everything has to be redone; can't streamline that hot mess.

DarXyde170d ago

6 was pretty bad. 5 just tried too hard in being an action-oriented RE4.

In some fairness to Capcom, 5 was the first Resident Evil on then-new hardware for them (X360 and PS3). And it was pretty damn hard to follow up RE4.

Imagine everyone's surprise when EA of all companies dropped Dead Space.

Alos88169d ago

The first half of 5 wouldn't be too hard to do in the more grounded style the remakes have gone for, but the second half gets pretty silly and uncomfortable at parts.
6 is a wash. You'd have to basically make a whole new game to salvage that one at this point.

__y2jb169d ago

6 is garbage. 5 is excellent.

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_Decadent_Descent170d ago

Hopefully if and when they do a RE5 remake, they give it the RE3 remake treatment, because this is certainly one title that I don't want a faithful remake of.

gerbintosh170d ago

I need a Parasite Eve remake

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