An open letter to IW to bring back 4 player offline split screen
I've been a split screen gamer for my entire career in gaming. Starting with my PS2, my brother (Eric), my father, my uncle (nicknamed BB), and I would spend hours playing games like ATV Offroad Fury, MX Unleashed, and a bunch of the original Medal of Honor games; including Rising Sun and Vanguard.
Flash forward a year or two and we sell our PS2 and all of our games to put towards a new system; the PS3. At first I was going to stick with Playstation as my console of choice but after playing Halo 3 at one of my friends house, I was sucked into getting an Xbox 360 - and I absolutely loved it. Me, my brother, my dad, and BB continued our weekend-split screen gaming sessions for years, we played Halo 3, Reach, Halo 4, CoD4, W@W, MW2, BO1, and MW3 at one time or another. The peak of those days were during the MW2 and Reach days. After a while I was getting older and my different uncle moved into town and through a series of events we eventually stopped playing with my uncle BB. However, we did find a new companion.
My other brother (Mike), began to join us in playing Halo 4, BO2, Monopoly, and Ticket to Ride - all 4 player games. When Ghosts was announced we were all excited to have a new CoD game to play with just the 4 of us, but sadly that excitement ended when we found out the max players you could have was 2.
Although I was bummed out we still wanted to get a next gen console, and hearing that the Xbox One could connect up to 8 controllers at once was amazing (not for split screen games, that would probably still limit to 4, but games like Monopoly and Ticket to Ride where you have local players all on the same screen and board). We completed the cycle again and sold the 360 with all the games to get a One.
Flash forward to today - I am having the most fun I have with CoD in a long time. At first I was not a fan of Ghosts but the new maps and improvements to the score streak system have made a HUGE difference. I am now enjoying this game, but at the same time I am wishing my family could too.
Think of this as an open letter to IW and the powers that be, I thought with the next generation of consoles and improved engines that CoD is running off of, we are supposed to add features, not take them away. Every game since CoD2 has had 4 player split screen, and Ghosts is the first one not feature it. I don't know why it was removed (possibly technical limitations) and why the community isn't in an uproar over it (maybe not too many people play video games with real life human beings anymore), but I would really like to see this come back.
I dont care if you have to drop it to 30 FPS like they did on the old ones, I just want it back. I have been a fan of CoD for a long time, and a big part of that was due to playing 4 player offline. I was very sad to see it go in Ghosts, but would be very happy if IW manages a way to bring it back.
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