Best split screen shooting game?

Hello. Many years ago my brother and I played Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64 and loved it. We mainly liked the two person splitscreen ability to compete in head-to-head death matches. I just bought a Wii assuming that today's games must offer the same kind of fun with much better graphics, and am a little disappointed.

I understand that gaming has changed, people go online now, etc., and these sorts of splitscreen games aren't the fashion anymore. That said, can someone please tell me -- if I want to play that kind of game again, is there anything I can get for the Wii? I have Medal of Honor 2, Metroid 3, Resident Evil 4, and none of them seems to have a two-player mode. Is Goldeneye the best there is? (I can look for my old Nintendo 64 in storage). What about Halo, which I've never played? Should I get an original Xbox? Will the Xbox 360 and newer versions of Halo also offer splitscreen death matches?

I'm really looking for a very particular gaming experience, and would love advice on what games/platforms still offer it.

Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestions. Can we narrow it down conclusively to one game/platform? I'll go look at Red Steel, but if Halo is still widely considered the best of these types of games, I'll buy that. I'm not really a very varied gamer. I just want to get the best splitscreen multiperson deathmatch shooting game, and figured members here would know much more than I do about what's out there.

So, to make it simple, is Halo 1 on the original XBox the best choice today? If there's something better, can you say why it's better?

Thanks again.

One more thought. I already have Nintendo 64, and Perfect Dark comes in an N64 version. Maybe I should just get that and stick with PD and Goldeneye? Or is Halo 1 so much better that it's worth buying an Xbox for?ajb224

The Timesplitters series are the best/closest thing that you'll get to Goldeneye and Perfect Dark splitscreen action. Halo is a great game, but splitscreen is limited because there are no bots... and two player deathmatch can get really boring really quick without bots. As such, the best Halo has to offer is cooperative play of the main story. It really is excellent as far as that goes, but personally I've never found the blood pumping and laughs from co-op that I get from versus play. Also, the gameplay in Halo is very slow compared to Timesplitters. It's like moving through molasses by comparison.

Timesplitters 2 and 3 are available on Gamecube and that means that they'll play on your Wii if you buy a couple gamecube controllers for it. The games were developed by Free-Radical Design which was founded by several members of the Goldeneye and Perfect Dark crew back when Rare was with Nintendo. You'll see many similarities, but the games are faster and with much improved framerates. Timesplitters are cartoonish in style and many of the characters are designed entirely with humor in mind. There are hundreds of playable characters in the games and many multiplayer game modes as well as a level editor. Really, the replay value of Timesplitters can't be topped. (Personally I have a preference for Timesplitters 2 because it runs faster than TS3, but both are great games.)

btw: If you never played the original Perfect Dark on N64, you really owe it to yourself to pick it up.

Left 4 Dead has really good split-screen Co-Op. Me and my friend blazed through the whole game one night.

This generation, Halo:Reach offers the best in split-screen co-op and versus. GRAW 2 is also pretty fun co-op. You can play up to four-player co-op which is pretty sweet.