Do you ever curse the fact that when you and your buddy/significant other/BFF/sidekick/compadre wants to play an epic campaign online you get stumped what to play next? Well here’s a list of all (please let us know if we forgot any, I’m sure we did!) co-op games for PlayStation 3 that has a full online campaign. We’ve added a column to the right with games that stood out during the respective year the games were released.
Which is your most epic co-op experience?
Updated: 2012-09-18
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2006
2007 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
2008 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 Mercenaries 2: World In Flames Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3
2009 Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao TMNT:Turtles in Time Re-Shelled
2010 Transformers: War for Cybertron Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
2011 Operation Flashpoint: Red River Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon The Lord of the Rings: War in the North Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime Ugly Americans: Apocalypseageddon Castlevania Harmony of Despair Zombie Apocalypse: Never Die Alone
2012 Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
Upcoming Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
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Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom is a passable action/RPG and the very first PS3 title in which you can play the whole campaign with a buddy.
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga was first in the line of many more Lego games to come. Enjoy the 36 story mode levels and try not to mind the wonky camera.
LittleBigPlanet, Media Molecule’s ambitious first Play – Create – Share title has a super imaginative and quirky but short main story mode. Despite the sluggish jump the cooperating and platforming easily makes up for it. Also the first game in which you can do a two handed air guitar solo with ease!
Treyarch refreshed a jaded franchise with Call of Duty: World at War, a gritty and immersive World War II shooter. What it lacks in pacing it makes up for in big set-piece battles and explosions.
Putting the controversy and complaints about being stuck in the past aside, Resident Evil 5 has super fun cooperative mechanics and game-play. Boss fights are innovative and loot/crafting system feels rewarding.
Borderlands might be my favorite co-op experience of all time. It has a great story with a twisted sense of humor, extraordinary loot, a gazillion guns and RPG-like character-building elements.
Transformers: War for Cybertron is a 3rd person action shooter set in the Transformers’ war-ravaged homeland. 3 players can team up and choose between different classes of transformers, either Decepticons or Autobots.
Join Lara and Totec in the isometric adventure called Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Fun action mixed with bite-sized environmental puzzles.
Resistance 3 is set in a beautifully crafted alternate 1950s America and your mission is to travel to New York (what is left of it) and fight off the Chimera. The sepia tinted world is just stunning at times and has lots of dynamic effects to marvel at. I have to say the Resistance-universe has the most imaginative and fun weapons out there. The Mutator! Do I need to say more?
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD‘s co-op mode from the PSP version works great on PS3 too. You’ll enjoy the brief missions and spend equal amount of time back at the base. Here you’ll spend your time updating your roster, building your Metal Gear and playing a addictive mini-game called ‘Outer Ops’ using recovered soldiers and vehicles from the field of battle.
Trying to describe Saints Row: The Third is rather tricky. Let me try. It’s weird, confusing, outrageous, stereotypical and yeah, it has dildos and zombies and talking cats too. I think you get the point.
The separate co-operative story in Portal 2 takes place after the single-player campaign. You take the roll as either Atlas or P-Body and what you’re about to experience is something truly special. The writing and voice acting is spectacular and alone worth your price of admittance.
Borderlands 2 is back with a full co-op campaign, jump in/jump out functionality, more loot, more variety, bigger and badder guns and enemies. There is also more focus on the story and the characters this time around.
Resident Evil 6 is trying to mix action and survival horror. Will it blend? This installment is the most ambitious, taking place over 3 different story arcs with playable characters like Leon S. Kennedy, Helena Harper, Chris Redfield, Piers Nivans, Jake Muller and Sherry Birkin.
In Dead Space 3 you will be able to play the full story mode as either Issac Clarke or John Carver in 2 player online, drop-in/drop-out co-op.
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Magic Ball is a charming retro breakout clone on PSN. Great pick up and play (unless you’re going for the complete-50-levels-in-a-row trophy) with nice colorful graphics and catchy music.
In Dead Rising 2 both co-op players play through the story as the former national motocross champion called Chuck, which doesn’t make any sense what so ever. But look! Zombies! Must. Kill. Zombies! (With a chainsaw mounted on a paddle…)
In Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One your unlikely team of heroes consists of Ratchet, Clank, Captain Qwark and Dr. Nefarious (my personal favorite). Using each character’s unique skills you’ll solve light puzzles but more importantly eliminate the opposition with the most ridiculous weapons ever created! If you can tolerate the occasional connection drop, lock-ups and a clunky tool-switching-menu it’s a good bang for your buck.
Jeeeez! So many good ones! Borderlands, Portal 2, R&C: A4O…
Portal 2 was really outstanding, co-op was icing on the cake. So I’ll go with that one.
Little big planet 2, 4 player co op is a blast!!!
I need more co-op friends. Any voulenteers?
I don’t think our time zones are co-op friendly. :-(
Add me on PSN, i will see what i can do to help your loneliness :)
For me it’s Portal 2, no doubt. It has good looks AND a great personality :)