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The last good offline multiplayer shooter game?

Published: Wed 8 Oct, 2008 | 37 Comments

Since online play has really kicked off, we have seen a huge decrease in the number of games that have good, solid, enjoyable offline multiplayer modes. Long gone are the days when we could set up a few bots in a multiplayer map, each with their own skill levels and skins, and then take them out with a mate on split-screen.

This used to be one of my favourite modes... and i miss it.

 

The last game i can remember this is Medal Of Honour: Rising Sun on the Playstation 2. The single player was okay, the online would have been ok if i'd had my PS2 connected at the time, but the REAL fun for me on that game was the offline multiplayer.

I'd just love setting up a game in the Ballpark level, with what seemed like a huge number of bots thst had varying skill settings and weapon set ups. Then me and my mate would paly split screen against each other and the other bots on either deathmatch or team deathmatch games.

As simple as it sounds it was still really, really fun. I rste those experiences as high, if not higher than any COD4 online experience thst I've had.

You don't need to worry about ping times, lag or anything else to do with NZ's crappy internet - you just cranked on the system, set it up in a minute and played it resulting in 100% fun.

 

 

Now days games seem to put all their effort into online gaming, which is good; but what happens when you have 3 or 4 mates over and you want to all play together in a shooting game? Well you virtually have no options now on a next generation system. Cod:4 has a 4 person(i think)  multiplayer mdoe but thats just not as fun as having 4 people AND bots running around. Its possible for the technology to do it, i mean we're in the 21st century for god's sake, but still there is nothing offered to us.

 

Its an issue im hearing mroe and more of. At least Cod5 will give us co-op but its still not the same. Bring back the good old days!

 

 

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