Leo can distract somone while Vincent moves down a different path in A Way Out.
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A Way Out hands-on — Breaking out of prison, two at a time

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

Playing the two-player co-op game A Way Out is going to be a new kind of experience for a lot of gamers, as each player controls a different character on a split screen at the same time. Playing with the game’s writer director at Hazelight, Josef Fares, is a hoot.

A Way Out is a unique experience, since two players play together and try to solve problems at the same time. Each can choose a different path, since each can play fully on one side of the split screen. Sometimes they come together into a single cinematic or gameplay scene, and that’s what makes the game so fascinating and different.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.