No. I didn't realize that. I played that game 50 million times and never noticed once that you could tell where the other players were by looking at their portion of the screen.  You are much brighter than I am.   

Actually, I'm not. But my friends were. They always knew where I was.

I guess it comes with the knowledge of the levels...

I was being a smart ass. It didn't bother me. That's part of the game.

Everyone had that advantage.

Back on topic.  I love local multiplayer.  

I boo games that don't have it. 

Boo!!! 

I'm not saying it's the same as it was for Halo 1/2, but to some extent, yes.

For example. I own all 3 Halos. I stopped playing Halo 3 a while back. Sometimes I go over a friends house, and occasionally, because he has a nice big TV, we wind up playing a few Halo matches. When i go home, I'm in the Halo mood again, and for the next week or so I play matches. And then, if a new mappack has come out I end up buying it. If there hadn't been split screen, I probably would have put Halo 3 down a couple map packs ago, and never went back. I imagine it can have a similar effect on those who don't own it yet. Especially considering there are almost 10m copies floating around, there are literally hundreds of thousands of split screen games played each week.

From what I've seen, in my opinion The Conduit in motion looks better than any single FPS that can be pointed out from the Xbox, but then again Rouge Squad was also the best looking game of that system cycle and it was on the GC.

But I've had the chance to see it in motion so really anyone else has to either wait or go to a showing.

Does that make it a good game? Not at all, but it does make other 3rd parties look like they weren't even trying in the graphics department.

Is the impending release of Killzone 2 just driving the haters into anti-k2 overdrive ? . I'd probably be doing the same thing if I was in your position so I won't hold it against you.

If a game has multiplayer, it should have local multiplayer. I am amazed at the number of people who disagree.

I think your age, occupation and how you live is going to affect what you expect and want.

If you are a student living in a dorm or sharing a room with others maybe it's great...

If you are married, past a certain age, have a nice big HDTV you sure don't want to share it with someone else and it becomes quite irrelevant...

split screen is last gen IMO i play with friends online or sports games offline multiplayer.

Oddly, I kind of believe that "split screen is last gen" may be the general consensus, maybe the gain is superficial... but someone already pointed out that 8 of the top 10 Wii games have it and 7 of the top 10 360 games have it... so maybe not.

Maybe games without it take themselves too seriously... I wonder how shooters became so popular before online though... never mind golden eye was all.