Its Sony. The chance are good that this game will have a strong focus on story and character development and multiplayer will come second if the risk meets reward like Uncharted and the Last of Us. Sony is on fire with creating story based ips and I hope it continues because a game like this would be awesome.

Having no MP is a shooter is a pretty bad choice. If Sony wants anything close to Gears they'll need solid MP and Co-op modes as well.

History gives an idea of whether a studio has the essential talent to make a good game, so it gives one confidence.

But the one thing missing from RaD's library is an original IP. So do they have the talent to create a world from scratch that is compelling and an engaging story that isn't already somewhat pre-baked, at least in theme?

As long as they get this game out well before any of the Sony big guns it wwill sell well, but it may not ane up profitable because making a new IP is expensive. But hopefully it will do well enough to justify a sequel, which should be cheaper to make and sell well enough to be a financial success. And of course it will have MP, just like Uncharted 2 did.

They wanted you to focus on playing a single character. It's a story driven game, and that wouldn't have worked if every time you played the game you would be playing a different character. You just wouldn't care what happens to them.

How is that holding them back from allowing Co-op play? Everyone will know who the main character is. If you ONLY focus on him then what's the point of having the others in the game? Building personalities for the other heroes is what makes a great story driven game. It wouldn't change if you add in co-op to play with friends.

How will everyone know who the main character is if you're constantly playing a different dude when you start up the game? 

I really don't see where you're going with this. Does the game NOT have cutscenes to help tell the story or something? Why would you be "constantly playing a different dude when you start up the game"? I see many people comparing this game to gears and I guess I can see why. So if that were to be true then playing co-op would be the same story

Because if the game was four player co-op, what are the chances you get to pick the same character? Plus if they only focus on one character during the cutscenes, then if you weren't actually playing that character, you wouldn't really care about what happens to the one you are playing.

Anyways, it's a developer decision. They have played the game, you and I haven't. I'm sure it's not difficult for them to offer four player co-op, they just feel that the games story wasn't designed for it.

Simplest explanation is just that you don't have several characters with you at all times in the game, there'll probably be phases in the game where you'll have all 4 main characters around but also phases where there's only Gallahad or 2 guys or 3. They probably don't want to limit the possibilities of the story by having to make sure that you can play the campaign in Coop at all times.

That's what I was thinking too. There might be sections where you split up from the group, or you lose track of one another. Who knows...Just have to play the game to find out. I just hope the friendly AI is good and I don't feel like they are holding me down.