Why Black Ops 6's Better Split Screen Integration Made It My First CoD Game

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I have played my fair share of shooters in the many years I've been gaming, but I have never played a single game. This changed with , and it's all thanks to split screen. The Zombies mode of is the very first time I've ever played a game, and it made me realize that a functional split-screen mode may be the way for Activision to draw in brand-new players like myself.

My husband and his friends have been playing and since they launched, but the release of is the first time I've been able to join in on the action. The title isn't the first game to have split-screen multiplayer, but it's the first in recent years to implement a (somewhat) working version of it. The inclusion of local co-op finally helped me to break into the series, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who's had this experience.

The first few entries had couch co-op with four-player split screen, allowing up to four people to play the games together.Many original fans remember playing the games with friends, significant others, and family members, when all they needed was a couple of controllers and a comfy couch. As the market for in-person gaming declined, the split screen functionality was deprioritized and local co-op gaming was all but phased out.

Black Ops 6 Zombies features some challenging enemies, and there's a world of difference between the hardest foes and the cannon fodder.

Some modern games do still have split screen. for instance, has split screen, but it's very limited, only works in private matches and not multiplayer ones, and is incredibly buggy. simply doesn't have a local co-op option at all, although according to an image from darkdaniel57 on Reddit, there were remnants of a potential split screen implementation two years ago (that didn't actually work).

games have had a similar history with split screen, appearing and disappearing at Treyarch's whims.Sometimes, this happened quite literally and in the middle of the game already being out; according to, the feature was implemented