Four Player Racing
You know what I’m really missing in this console generation? A good racing game. Wait. Let me qualify that. A good racing game that I can play with my friends at my place. There are currently no four player splitscreen racing games on the PLAYSTATION 3. (PSN titles don’t count.) And there are currently no really good two player splitscreen racing games on the PLAYSTATION 3. The only half-decent one I can think of (two player) is SEGA Rally Revo. It’s decent, but it only has five tracks. Where’s the replayability in that? And don’t get me started on Need for Speed all tracks look the same Carbon.
Please developers, splitscreen isn’t dead! Online shouldn’t replace splitscreen, it should supplement it! The Burnout series of games were great fun, though only two player. The next one, due early next year, is single player only. That was a huge disappointment. This is just not right.
I’m currently in the planning stages for building my basement. I already have a 57″ rear-projection HDTV, and I plan to one day buy a projector and a nice, big, 100″ screen. But I won’t be throwing out my old HDTV, I’ll be keeping it. I’m now thinking that if I have both the TV and projector in the same room, on different walls, and have an L-shaped couch, and get a friend to bring over a PS3, I might finally be able to play games like MotorStorm together with my friends in one place! Sheesh. This is getting complicated.
I’m much rather have developers give us four-player splitscreen support. If the PS2 and Xbox could do it, surely the much more powerful PS3 and 360 should be able to.
(after 3 weeks... but for 23.5€ I cannot remotely complain!)
So merry Christmas!
November 15th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
**Yawn**
Didn’t we already have this conversation a few months ago when they released DIRT?
November 15th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Maybe. Obviously it’s not important to you.
But to me, it’s important enough to bring up now and again.
November 15th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
I’m onboard with this rant. Also, I want a two playersplit screen racing mode that has the screens stacked on top of one another rather than side by side. I guess a second ps3 is the way to go. It would be nice if they made TVs and projectors with 2 to 4 inputs that display simultaneously.
November 15th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
James they do. My Samsung can do picture in picture giving both the same amount of screen space. The problem is on my 50″ it would be ok but on a 42″ or smaller this would be difficult. The screen space would be too small.
We shouldn’t even have to go this route in the first place. Just make games that should have split-screen with split-screen.
I think the new Burnout will have split. If it doesn’t than there is a problem with the hardware.
November 15th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
It doesn’t.
November 15th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Ridge Racer is a great split screen racing game that i enjoy with my girlfriend. You can probably get is used for pretty cheap until something better comes out. Not sure if its 4 split screens- i think its just two.