In short, I think that CA2 offers the player all the configuration freedom anyone could ask for. As in the rest of the production we more or less only aimed for what we wanted to play ourselves. Chase Ace 2 is built directly on Chase Ace that was a two-player only game. You simply didn't have a choice but to sit down with a friend of yours and blast him away. The only clear goal we had during the production was that it should be fun to play in split screen.
Many games have multiplayer capabilities, but there are very few split screen titles.
The thrill of playing two at a time on the same computer still has something special to it. The single player and LAN play modes were developed after the 2-player mode. Now Chase Ace 2 supports up to eight players over LAN and e.g. four players on two machines. As we speak an Internet game module is being prepared. Might even be released at some point.