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In Defense of Split Screen

Posted by Dave "shaolinjesus" Corvin on January 20th, 2010

"Old School"

As Ciandi has pointed out, online gaming has vast potential to connect us all in crazy new ways. Xbox Live, and to a lesser extent the Playstation Network have completely changed the gaming landscape. I have spent hours crushing guys from Germany in Burnout: Revenge. I have witnessed 8 strangers working together as one perfect unit to crush alien scum in Resistance 2.

So why am I defending something old and antiquated like split screen multiplayer? Click past the break, adventurous reader, to find out.

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