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[jetset]

Hey guys....other than Gauntlet and Fuzion Frenzy, what are some good 4-player games on the box? Myself, wife and both my kids got hooked playing Gauntlet. Pretty lame/average game for one player, but with 3-4 it rocks. We also have Quantum Redshift, but the 4way split screen gives me a siezure.
Suggestions????

[Starscream]

Mad Dash Racing is pretty fun

[sdstuff64]

Halo

[liquid_sky]

godzilla: destroy all monsters melee is a great 4 player party game.

[AtariX]

Brute Force is great 4 person multi-player game on one TV. Brute Force is also a great single player game as well. Four people can play in Campaign mode, Deathmatch and Squad Deathmatch(each person controls 4 characters, for a total of 16 characters running around the map!). The cool thing about Brute Force, is that another player can join in at anytime, even in the middle of a mission, totally cool.

Dead or Alive 3 is one of the best fighters out there and it has a great 4 player tag-team mode. The trash talking and laughs will get intense during 4 player tag-team mode.

Phantasy Star Online also supports 4 player split screen on one TV. Multi-player PSO kinda has a Gauntlet feel to it, but with more RPG elements. You also MUST HAVE Xbox Live in order to play PSO offline, which kinda sucks. If you have XB Live though, PSO is great fun.

Also keep an eye out for Dungeons and Dragons Heros by Atari, for the Xbox later this summer. I'm not sure if it will be a 4 player dungeon crawler, like Gauntlet, or limited to two players like Baulder's Gate: Dark Alliance.

[jetset]

Great, thanks! I'll try some of those. Halo I have, but can you do a campaign with 4 players or just the "tag" type games...???

[AtariX]

Halo is two player mission co-op and four player deathmatch/capture the flag, etc, on one TV. Return to Castle Wolfentein has a two-player co-op as well, but only supports multiplayer via system link and online. Unreal Championship supports 4 player on one TV and also has bots running around as well. Not sure about Ghost Recon. The rest of the FPS line-up on the XB is average, until this fall when more good ones are released.

[Clock]

Halo is great 4 player especially Oddball

Timesplitters 2

Jet Set Radio Future

Conflict Desert Storm - This is a riot 4 player but the kids may be too young

Whacked is a good laugh and all age groups can play.

I also have problems with any 4 player racing game - makes me go a bit funny and I can't play for more than a few minutes.

[jetset]

Clock said:

I also have problems with any 4 player racing game - makes me go a bit funny and I can't play for more than a few minutes.

Yes definetly...Quantum Redshift, which is awesome no matter how many players imho, is kinda rough on the eyes with 3-4 players.
The worst is 3 player....the games splits into four seperate screens, but the fourth one is completely blank. I guess that was the only way of doing it, but still....ICK!!!