Late to the party, tell me about coop games! • Gaming • Wii • Eurogamer.net

papalazarou 1 May 2017 06:30:27 138 posts
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Hi, after playing overcooked with Mrs Papalazarou on Xbox one, I decided to dig the Wii out of the garage and we ended up playing MK and Tetris party for a few hours. I've also got Boom Blox.... Are there any other coop games we should be trying? Nintendo Land any good?

Cheers

macmurphy 1 May 2017 06:35:58 4,447 posts
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I'm guessing you mean Wii U because you mention Nintendo Land - which is great fun by the way.

In that case we used to play a lot of Pikmin 3 coop, it's great.

papalazarou 1 May 2017 06:41:01 138 posts
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Ah sorry I do mean the original Wii!

DangerousDave_87 1 May 2017 09:32:35 7,074 posts
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I'd definitely check out Donkey Kong Country Returns, Kirby's Epic Yarn and New Super Mario Bros Wii. They're all platformers, obviously.

Edited by DangerousDave_87 at 09:32:52 01-05-2017

DFawkes 1 May 2017 09:52:28 32,785 posts
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One of my personal favourites is House of the Dead Overkill. Not sure if your missus will be into the zombie shooting theme, but I had lots of fun with that in co-op, and there is stuff to unlock and weapons to upgrade to give you a sense of progression. There are other lightgun style games that are pretty good too, like Ghost Squad (SWAT style).

I also had lots of fun with Thrillville: Off the Rails mini-games. Some of them are co-op, and that game can be picked up for almost nothing nowadays.

papalazarou 1 May 2017 14:31:24 138 posts
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Thanks for the replies folks, I'll check em out.

simpleexplodingmaybe 1 May 2017 14:54:47 19,992 posts
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Is Rayman Origins or Legends available on Wii? They were great fun to play with my cousins

Deleted user 1 May 2017 15:02:53

Likewise the Resident Evil lightgun-style games on the Wii, Umbrella Chronicles and Darkside Chronicles. They basically revisit familiar scenes from the classic Resi games in co-op-enabled lightgun shooty form.

I loved HOTD Overkill, but its Grindhouse-style ultra-sweariness and gleeful political incorrectness (cripple jokes, etc) won't be to everyone's taste. You'll know your wives better than we do, unless they used to be our wives and are your wives now.

Deleted user 1 May 2017 15:16:51

Have a look on this site - Co-Optimus - and set it to "Wii" and "couch co-op". Seems there are more co-op enabled Wii games than I thought, and they're all rated by users for how good they are in co-op play.

Lego Lord of the Rings jumps out as a good 'un. I enjoyed playing through that game in co-op on the Xbox 360.

Meggamugabe 1 May 2017 15:48:52 53 posts
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Super Mario galaxy 1 and 2, switch between lives who's grabbing extra lives and enemies. Got the wife so much into gaming this way she beat SMG2 alone. Proud moment!