Resident Evil: Revelations 2 For PC Gets Official Local Co-Op

If you're a Resident Evil fan, you might have been swept up in that hoopla surrounding the disingenuous implications that Resident Evil: Revelations 2 for PC offered offline co-op, then the follow up quiet correction made later on that no, sorry, there's not actually going to be a local co-op for PC. While gamers' hopes were low, a wonderful modder decided to make that local co-op mode himself, and apparently in light of that and the upset cries from gamers, an official local co-op has been promised...again. Only for real this time.

Confused? In late February, it came to light that the previous advertisements and statements about offline co-op in Resident Evil: Revelations 2 weren't exactly correct. At the bottom of the Steam page, Capcom listed that "The PC version does not support offline co-op play in the Campaign or Raid Mode." Which was a hidden and distinct change over what gamers had been led to expect.

Following that revelation, Capcom said in part in a statement to VG24/7, "The decision to prioritize a single local screen was made to ensure a stable user experience across a variety of different PC settings and devices." Following this, and only a few days ago, the modder FluffyQuack introduced a co-op that filled the void Capcom refused to fill.

That brings us to Monday (yesterday), and Capcom's quick scramble to make right what it had done wrong and initially declined to make right: it announced that a split-screen co-op beta for PC gamers was upcoming, and now the open beta patch is live.

VIA: Kotaku