Why Modern Warfare 2 Does Not Have Co-op

[Treblaine]

Wow, people are being very... Hostile... Towards this. It's a design choice, and as far as I'm concerned, a damn good one. I'm taking it as proof that they give more of a damn about the storyline than pleasing what ammounts to a very small demographic - there are some games where I've thought "playing with a mate would be cool", but never "If I can't play this with a mate, I won't buy!"

What he said ^^^^

It's not like Infinity Ward are just being assholes and saying "No Co-op at all", there IS co-op with the spec-op mode that I suspect will re-enact a lot of the main campaign yet keep it in rightly sized and easy to access packages that are easy for repeated challenges and to drop out as soon as you have reached your limits of concentration.

I can think of so many examples from COD4 where you can't have a 2nd person tagging along. Like young Price carrying his wounded commander out of the hot zone in Chernobyl, it would be too easy with co-op to just have one carry and the other shoot, removes all challenge and destroyed the carefully managed pacing.

And you can't have the 2nd co-op player be the "leader" as the leader is saying and doing things that control the pacing on the game that you won't get with a flesh and blood person at the controls.

I think IW should be applauded for nailing it perfectly, a dedicated and refined single player and in parallel a dedicated and refined co-op mode. Not that Treyarch are that bad, the did very well with WAW but not quite a classic.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

Yeah, i agree that shoving in co-op into the main campaign would ruin the experience. It would've brought down the campaign of CoD4, since you know that there's always going to be one douchebag who runs straight for the objective to score points, while the other players just tag along, and the immersion is lost as you're not a soldier anymore, but a player who is frustrated over his teammates.

And that's why me and my friend will be playing Operation Flashpoint 2 co-op.

 

[SMILEYrulesUS]

i think this is good because seriously it would ruuin the gameplay like at the e3 presentation (WARNING SPOILER) ur captain is like roach MOVE UP!n they would havet to like completely change the audio

 

[nova18]

All I want in MW2 is splitscreen multiplayer and online multiplayer.
It's shocking but I wouldnt even mind if they cut out the single player, cause I grew much more attatched to the online in COD4.

Note: I do still want a Single Player campaign, I realised I had better type this in case some over eager Activision employee took it seriously.

 

[KaiRai]

I guess this means no modern version of Nazi Zombies

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

RAAAAAAAAAGEQUUUIIIITT!!!!

Anyway, I think that is crap, Meeeeuuum! I whant mah co-op!

 

[wewontdie11]

Awww what the hell!? I was really hoping for online co-op, it's one of my favourite things in gaming. Well I'm a little disappointed but at least that other game mode sounds interesting.