I am looking for this option, too. I did search the forum, but couldn't find answer yet.
Could someone pls. tell us how to enter local coop? Would be great, ).
Perhaps I am plain stupid, but in fact I don't know how to simply host a game, or even to play local co-op. I have the crude assumption, that another player could only jump in the game with a gamepad, if the character in single player got a companion. But I only played the demo this far (Lucas -> Anjali) and I wont be amused if you can't play as a team simply from the beginning of the game.
The only thing I can do is to find other games online, in which other players are hosts.
But this implies another oddity: There are only three or so games... Do I see all games??? This seems ridiculous.
I am terrified, that there isn't a solution, which could make me happy. So I am indeed in greatest need of somebody of great knowledge about this game (... Nathaniel Chapman would be very nice! ).