I hooked up with two friends yesterday for a gaming session, quite an irregular occurance but something we try to do once every couple of months.We all brought pads, games, beers, cola, junk food. After taking it inturns on Call of Duty 4 single player, which we're all really impressed with, we decided to get down to some multiplayer- that's when the problems began.

It seemed to us like the days of traditional multiplayer- with your friends in the same room-are over. We had, CoD 4, Rainbow 6, Halo 3 and we wanted a coop three player split screen. We were playing on a huge HD TV and either wanted to go online splitscreen or play a local game. Not once did we play a game with all three of us involved. CoD 4 doesnt except guest user invites on xbox live meaning we all needed individual accounts and Rainbow 6 and Halo 3 doesn't split the screen 3-4 ways.

So if you want to get all your friends involved in a game make sure you're all at home with a headset on. If anyone reads this can you suggest a game, that isn't a sports game, that we can all play together cooperatively?