Madworld has splitscreen!!!!!!!!!!!

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mike_intellivision said:

BrainBoxLtd said:

Bah, why horizontal splitscreen? Don't developers know that one of the benefits of these giant widescreen Tv's is how great vertical splitscreen works for it? =P

Anyways, that’s pretty surprising. I figured the multiplayer element would just be turned based version of the mini-games. Cool that it is simultaneous instead. Anyone know if you can you play the whole game in co-op, or just compete in the mini-game segments?

 

Well, since the Wii doesn't do HD, could that be why they didn't make a vertical split?

(Even though that is what Wii Sports and a lot of other games use).

 

Mike from Morgantown

 

Being HD or not has nothing to do with this. It's all about aspect ratios.  If you have a horizontal split on a 16:9 tv, each person would have a 16:4.5 block.  Their portion of the screen would be more than 3x as wide as it is tall.  You don't need to see that much on the sides, and you'd probably want to see more above and below you.

If you splid the screen vertically, you'd have two 8:9 screens, which would be closer to a 4:3 screen, something we're more used to.

But there's probably an option to switch between the two like there is in most games these days.