Tonight at midnight Xbox will be releasing the highly anticipated sequel to Geometry Wars Retro Evolved via Xbox Live. I was ridiculously stoked about this game coming out for about the last month or so. I played Geometry Wars Retro Evolved for the first time in like a year. It seemed like for once I could get excited about an arcade game, it was fantastic. Then I talked to Brad.

Having noticed that Brad still hadn't renewed his xbox live gold membership I thought I would PM him and see what the deal was. I knew GWRE2 was coming out and I remembered him being somewhat excited when they talked about it on the Bombcast. I told him he had to get his gold back so he could play the 4 player online co op. Then Brad dropped the BOMB.

 Brad-"My gold account ran out last month and I haven't gotten around to renewing it yet -- been too busy to play games really. Got a gold card sitting on my desk at home, I'll re-up at some point.

HOWEVER, Geometry Wars 2 sadly features no online co-op whatsoever, so a gold account won't matter much in the enjoyment of that game. :( "

What!!! I couldn't believe it. I was under the impression that when they made a huge deal about four player co op they meant it was going to be over live. Who cares about local co op. I can't find one person to play GWRE2 with let alone 3. I'm still gonna get it tonight I will just have this empty feeling while playing. What do you guys think about the lack of online co op? Are you still gonna get it?

wow thats extremely surprising. At E3 it seemed like they were advertising the fact that it was a 4 player experience. You have a right to be disappointed.