Good news: Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 cooperative gameplay mode will support split-screen play so that two gamers can play from one television. The bad news: that screenshot up there is what splitscreen will look like on your television.

As someone who often games with his significant other, sitting side-by-side on our couch, this was kind of unacceptable. Difficult to see on our “average” 34″ high-definition television, it took a while for each of us to adjust our eyes to the two tiny, individual screens. Items lying around Shanty Town were difficult to spot in the heat of battle, and we’d have to squint to see subtitles. In short, split-screen cooperative play was more frustrating than enjoyable.

Clearly we’d have to purchase a second copy of Resident Evil 5 so we could play over Xbox LIVE. More after the jump.

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