Split Screen is an option available for the Call of Duty games in local and online multiplayer for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and local only for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Wii U. It is also available on Call of Duty: World at War's multiplayer and campaign modes. Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 allow online multiplayer split screen support on the Xbox 360 and PS3 for the first time since Call of Duty 3.
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Since the release of Ghosts, splitscreen is only available on the PS4, Xbox One, and Wii U for local multiplayer, while PS3 and Xbox 360 can support one splitscreen player for online multiplayer and up to four players in local multiplayer.
Split screen allows multiple players to play on one screen. It divides part of the screen for each player. Split screen is featured in Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 3, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: World at War, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. With two people, the screen is split in half, either vertically, or horizontally. With three people, the screen is divided into two quarters, and one half. Two players get a quarter of the screen, while a third player gets half. With four players, the screen is divided into four quarters, one for each player. The offline split screen modes for Black Ops, Black Ops II and Ghosts have the ability to play offline with AI bots. The difference between playing in split screen and Combat Training is the ability to have everything unlocked, including the prestige items. However, the player(s) cannot rank up in Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
Call of Duty: Ghosts and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare only featured two-player split screen. The option to play split screen with up to four players returned in Call of Duty: Black Ops III, but only in local modes.
In Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, when using split screen online, only one additional player can play, allowing two players to play on the same account. The screen is split in half horizontally, both players can rank up, but it only applies to the main player. When the second player signs out and signs back in, they'll start from the main player's current level, not from where they last ranked up. This also applies to Call of Duty: Black Ops II if the second player signs in as a guest rather than another profile.
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Pretty much everything we said about the image quality on Xbox 360 in the original Face-Off applies here with the Wii U version - it's a remarkably close conversion, from a visual perspective at least. While the PC game provides the benchmark, Treyarch's upscaling algorithms work just as well as they do on Xbox 360, providing a good, clean presentation - quite remarkable bearing in mind just how extensive the horizontal upscale actually is. Despite the removal of the additional blurring added in the 1.02 patch, both Wii U and 360 are still a class apart from the more compromised PlayStation 3 version. One minor difference concerns v-sync - the Wii U version has no tearing whatsoever, while the PS3 and 360 games occasionally tear right at the top of the screen (this is basically unnoticeable during gameplay though).
What's interesting about the read-out overall is that similar events can stress all three engines, but it's the extent to which frame-rates are impacted that varies dramatically. The initial scene doesn't look too promising for Wii U: indeed, we see three distinct performance bands - Xbox 360 at the top, PS3 in the middle and the new Nintendo console right at the bottom. It's clear that plenty of characters and full-screen transparencies are particular Achilles Heels for the Wii U, a state of affairs that persists in further clips later on. However, beyond that we see a fairly close match for the PlayStation 3 version in other scenarios and occasionally it even pulls ahead of the Sony platform.
For the duration of the single-player campaign, it's fair to say that the GamePad isn't exactly put to much use. However, you can mirror the HDTV output onto the tablet display at any point, meaning that in a living room environment you don't need to hog the main screen; you can detach at any point and continue to play simply by pressing an on-screen button on the touch-screen. As we mentioned in the main Wii U review, range is generally pretty good and the GamePad works through walls too, to a certain extent at least. It's a feature that isn't deployed on every game for obvious reasons, but where PS3/360 ports are concerned, we'd definitely like to see it implemented as standard.
Bearing in mind that Black Ops 2 runs with a somewhat variable frame-rate (in contrast to New Super Mario Bros U, which is locked to 60Hz), we thought this would be a good opportunity to see if the mirroring function incurs any kind of further performance hit when the system is servicing two screens. Mobile hardware tends to have bandwidth issues resulting in frame-rate drops when external mirroring is enabled, but the good news is that we could spot no difference at all on Wii U when we analysed HDMI streams running with mirroring both enabled and disabled.
In multiplayer modes, the tablet does gain some additional functionality. The mini-map runs on the touch-screen, you can adjust classes without pressing the start button and you can even access ScoreStreaks too. It sounds like a good bonus, but in some cases we see the same problem here that we find with many of the other Wii U titles - it's a matter of focus. Making use of the touch-screen functionality in-game takes away your attention from the main screen where gameplay is hosted - effectively making you vulnerable at those points.
Where Treyarch deserves credit is for the expansion to the local multiplayer options, specifically in terms of split-screen. While the standard two-player mode of the existing console version is supported, the Wii U has an excellent alternative: discrete screens for each participant - HDTV output for one player, GamePad for the other.
This mode - indeed, split-screen in general - is not without its trades. Frame-rate definitely takes a hit (which varies according to the map and definitely muddies controller response), but resolution is maintained and the only noticeable visual downgrade comes from the removal of dynamic shadows. Even this isn't quite as impactful as it sounds as shadows "baked" into the environments are still there.
Still, on the plus side, the multiplayer component of the game has emerged unscathed - if that's your focus, and you're willing to be patient for the online audience to grow in number, Black Ops 2 on Wii U is still worthy of consideration. The game also illustrates rather nicely the application of the GamePad for a new form of split-screen gaming, while tablet mirroring really is a sweet feature that we hope more developers embrace.
However, which ever display option you go for, expect to see black bars surround your screen. For whatever reason, Cold War split-screen does not fill the entire display currently. Treyarch has not commented on whether this will be addressed in a future patch.
Following a pre-Season One update, Treyarch has fixed a number of known issues with multiplayer split-screen, including the game crashing when opening up leaderboards. The feature is now much safer and smoother to use, although there are still a few bugs.
Like in multiplayer, you will see some black bars taking up some of your screen and the graphics quality will take a bit of a hit, but it should run nice and smooth now that Treyarch has fixed some of the split-screen gremlins.
It's a tough time to be a gamer that loves local multiplayer. Over the years, that elemental gaming experience of playing your favorite titles on the couch with your friends has become rarer and rarer, phased out instead for online multiplayer and sprawling single-player experiences. Unless your game says " Nintendo " on the box, chances are you'll be playing it alone, or with a friend that could be on the other side of the world. Halo was one of the stalwarts for a while, but Halo 5: Guardians recently phased out its own split-screen multiplayer in pursuit of a higher framerate, and long-time fans aren't pleased. But all is not lost! The other major shooter of the season, Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, still supports that traditional couch experience for those that want it. I caught up a little bit with Dan Bunting, the multiplayer director at Call of Duty developer Treyarch, on why split-screen local multiplayer was still important for a shooter here in 2015.
In Black Ops 3, you can play all of our modes of play: Campaign, Multiplayer and Zombies, in both local and online split-screen. You can play through the Campaign in 2-player split-screen, local and online. Both Multiplayer and Zombies support 4-player local split-screen, and 2-player split-screen online. 2ff7e9595c
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