

The reason most studios have abandoned, Booth pointed out, are easy to identify. "Split-screen was a pretty huge investment," said Booth to MTV Multiplayer at a San Francisco event to unveil the zombie mode of the game last night. Almost everything has been relegated to online multiplayer.īut split-screen was something "Left 4 Dead" lead designer Michael Booth believed was critically important to the Xbox 360 version of his co-op zombie shooter - even if it was going to be a nightmare to implement. I know my process above may be convoluted so if you know of an easier way please do tell, that and a way to join an ONLINE-Campaign matches in split-screen.įYi: I have not tried any other Online Game Modes besides the two mentioned.If Wii and the "LEGO" games have proven anything, it's that people still like to play games with other people in the same room.ĭespite this revelation, games of the last few years have all but abandoned split-screen gameplay. I've been trying the same process for CAMPAIGN-mode and it just fails, every time the game starts it's single player not splitscreen.

If there's room when we come back in all is good, and we get to have fun.Exit match to main-menu and in console enter the following command:Ĭonnect_splitscreen localhost "iP address + PORT go here" 2.After joining I access console to acquire the server-iP using "status" command or just by scrolling up to find it.


So we setup the Game-Banana/Game-MapsL4D2 Split-Screen mod and it works GREAT for local-play.
