Weekend Debate: The greatest multiplayer game of all time

My favourite multiplayer game must be Team Fortress 2(came with the orange box).
It is balanced. All the classes have their advantages and disadvantages. For instance: The Spy has a huge advantage against most classes, but comes short against the Pyro who can kill him in an instance! This is what makes this game brilliant! The comic-like graphics, fun humour and crazy situations makes this my favourite multiplayer game of all time.

But I want to tell some thoughts I have for LittleBigPlanet. I really love this game because of the multiplayer-option that is really funny.

But I feel it is limited. And LBP has much more potential! For instance: on the PSvita version of LBP (which I play the most) all the players have to be on the same screen. This works well in the original maps, but I could wish this could be turned off. Let’s say you make a map where you really have to communicate with the other player through text/talk instead of being on the same screen. You have to activate and make changes to the map on the whole other side of the map to help the other player on the opposite side of the map. I think this could make much more tough maps and puzzles. Just a thought.

What do you think?

has anyone mentioned track and field or Daley Thompsons athletics?? Pad breakers but lots of fun multiplayer!!!

Time Splitters 2 or maybe 3 very creative game it had multiple gamemodes 100+ guns and characters and you could easily lose track of time while playing

Start the Party !

It’s fun for all the family and anyone can play regardless of age/gender.

There is nothing negative and is only about having fun. There is always a winner but the score doesn’t matter because you have so much fun playing the game its not important.

It is also good exercise which is very important nowdays.

The best multiplayer games are no doubt those that you can enjoy togheter with a close IRL friend of course.

Playing randomly on servers in all honor. But there are some sweet memories that will never fade from my gaming heart. This includes for example a whole co-op weekend on resident evil 5 that included quite a few laughs and even more screams “watch out!”, not always in that order.

Who has not been battling it out on soul calibur? Who can make the craziest fighter and use them in a tournament against your IRL friends? Or perhaps fifa 13 where you can all pick a position in a team togheter with your friends and try to nail those goals?

Well there are to many games to be ranked, but a gaming experience in your couch with your friends never fails. So thats my vote.

I’ve been sleeping on this, and Crash Team Racing drove into my mind. I remember playing it for hours and hours with my best friend. We discovered shortcuts on almost every level… Who dosen’t remember the great shortcut on Sewer Speedway, where you would have to time your jump just right? Or blowing the stonefaces mouth open with a bomb on Tiger Temple? Or perhaps ignoring the racing for a few hours and sticking to VS. mode deathmatch?

I still have contact with my best friend today, and we have made it a tradition to play Crash Team Racing once every two months. Fantastic game!

At the very top is Counter Strike. On playstation 3 it must be Killzone 2.

I think my favourite multiplayer game of all time has to be… Portal 2.

The co-operative mode was just brilliant. Nothing even comes close. Superb level design, fantastic puzzles, a story that was as good as the single-player… but the clincher was definitely the “gestures” which are the best method of player communication in any game. Pointing, timing, dancing – it was all there, and it was quite astonishingly well implemented. Never had so much fun in any other co-op mode, so for that, it gets my pick.

It has to be cod zombies hours and hours of gaming

Burnout Paradise you can just drop straight into multiplayer with friends or random people online or a mix of both then drop straight back out again. I’m not always a fan of online multiplayer but think it’s perfected in this game and have never received any abuse from anyone whilst playing Burnout but have in other games (FIFA etc.). I like the fact that you have to work on challenges together or you can play other games like cops and robbers. The thing about some games now though is that offline splitscreen is not in the game so it can be harder to play offline with someone you know. Tony Hawks HD is particularly guilty in this respect as the old games used to have offline splitscreen so i could play against my brother so i think some of the social aspect of gaming is lost due to a lack of local multiplayer.

Honetly fred I dont have a personal online favorite. perhaps if you give me a code I may finally find one i enjoy

Burnout multiplayer on PS2. It was the first game that anyone I knew who played even if they were terrible enjoyed. The crashes looked fantastic, the addition of takedowns on your opponents in the later games made things even cooler. Lets not forget the addition of Crash mode with the addition of hotseat gaming, probably the only game I’d bother doing in it. Always was a good laugh for ending a night.

For sheer hours put in it has to be Quake 2. I think me and my brothers must have clocked nearing a thousand hours of LAN time. Creating maps, downloading maps, capture flag and general chaos. I dont think any other game justified 3 pcs in the same room as much.

I miss those days…

One of my favourite multiplayer portions of a game was the Co-Op in Portal 2! I have great memories of trying to beat the Co-Op campaign with my cousin, whilst also spending half the time moving portals to get each other killed!

It has to be Timesplitters Future Perfect back on the old PLaystation 2 machine so many amazing hours spent with my cousins playing split screen in that game. Robo Monkey for life!

Call of duty 4 best multi-player ever

Everybodys gonna say Cod i suppose. With respect…..WRONG!
You’ve really got to go back to alien vs predator. Not the version bought out on the consoles, but the original pc version.
I haven’t felt such tension, or excitement in a multiplayer game since, but i definitely have my fingers crossed for colonial marines.
You could play as an alien, marine or predator, but the real stars of the game were the levels, audio and excellent strategic use of the lighting.
Playing as the alien, you could destroy lights enabling you to crawl up and hide on the darkened ceiling. if you played as the marine, you could always switch of the perfect rendition of the motion tracker and switch to night vision. but then you’d miss the cloaked predator creeping up behind you, locking on with the shoulder cannon.
i could still play it quite happily now, and why rebellion came away from this style of play is beyond me!
Whoevers making colonial marines. PLEASE DONT COCK THIS ONE UP!
I desperately need a decent alien console game……Maybe with predator DLC?

Played in a dark room with the volume up. best multiplayer hands down

For me it would me the old NES title: Battle City.

Maybe it’s because of the nostalgia, but the multiplayer in the old times forced you to interact with the other player. He/she was a real human being and not an avatar with a nickname above its head. The emotions that came with fighting someone that was next to you can’t be revived by most of the current generation titles.

Phantasy Star Online on Dreamcast/Gamecube, so many hours grinding and rare weapon hunting. having 3 of my best buddies round on a weekend and just playing it almost non-stop while munching pizza, pringles and haribo before going back to solo mode on monday only to repeat the same thing again that next weekend.

One word, GLORIOUS!!!!!

My favourite multi player game of all time has to be the marvellous gauntlet – it was fun,amazing team play, great gameplay. The original gauntlet arcade was just great, yeah the graphics were really basicish but hey the arcade had buttons for 4 simultaneous players an absolute pleasure to play even if it was a bit of a squeeze to play. Bet you had a few goes in the arcade eh Fred?

It’s either Mario Kart or Bomberman and anyone denying it it’s either too young or biased.

And I agree, Phantasy Star Online was GLORIOUS.

Though it is just a recent game for me, via Plus download; I have to plump for Red Dead Redemption. Totally immersive world, but the ability to hook up and cause mayhem, with a consequence though, it what swings it for me.
Rockstar have created a brave new world, and the SP mode is awesome too.
Other than that, I have to bow my head to Timesplitters, KZ3 and BF3.

Additional thoughts on MP: I am old enough to trace my gamer routes back to an Text Adventure game on a Binary punch Mainframe. Where we did a project starting to code additional lines to the story. We had 2 stations in the Uni separated by a floor. Each took it in turn, to branch out a different line in the story to how you received the answers. Thus creating potentially infinite directions (it was for a group project). We took it in turns to each send a member from each team, down to the other station and log how they progressed. Though this was as basic ( no pun intended ) as it got, at the time it was so engrossing we all skipped the afternoon lessons and carried on for 4 hours after. By which time we had run out of storage.
It was something we yearned to do again and again, but in those days you had to book the computer time! I never repeated the exercise but a gamer bug was born.

I’ll be very surprised if this hasn’t been said already, but for me, Journey is a true masterpiece of multiplayer gaming.

Nothing quite beats the experience. You know nothing about the person behind the other character, you simply communicate with the little beeps that the cloth people make. A game that doesn’t force you to play together, but makes you want to help each other, is definitely doing something right. The feeling of soaring through the air with your partner, helping each other stay aloft longer, is exhilarating!

Nothing ever beat PES 5 online. It was my real first online experience and still by far the greatest. I just cannot get in to fps genre even though I’ve tried lots of times.

Battlefield 3 and Battlefield games in general

each game you play .. its going to be different

That’s what i like about it

Quake 3 Arena, fast paced, brutal and pretty fun, I remember playing it during school’s computer class, just as we sat down me and my friends just started up the game and battled with each other. Online is fun but on LAN isnt any bad.

SINGSTAR!!! most awesome multiplayer ever plus its completely free!!

tiymli <–tryityoumightlikeit

what… i gotta go out and buy microphones… oh

uh, i gotta pay for each song to download??

omg, so only the icon on the xmb is the free bit?? awwww… sony, you led me to belive it was a fun packed festival of free fun!!

To me, it’s Resistance 2 co-op.

I’ve never been able to get into competitive multiplayer in shooters, it’s always been a non-stop parade of me getting headshot from behind before I’ve even gotten my bearings. And most co-op modes seems difficult to get into, usually requires tight coordination and a good amount of skill from all players. If someone, including yourself, is flailing around like a dumb noob, you’re ruining the experience for everyone else.

So R2 was a revelation. A bit like a MMORPG dungeon raid crossed with a FPS, with large open maps, 8 player teams, and low penalty for dieing – it was more about mastering the levels to get the highest score than just surviving. You could take your time learning how to play, or go off on your own and play hero, knowing full and well the rest of the team would be fine. Spent countless hours leveling up and improving my skills, until I consistently ranked in the top of the matches, even getting most kills as a medic!

It really was like nothing else out there, and sadly it doesn’t seem like anyone’s made anything like it since. I keep hoping though, seems like there would be a brilliant free to play game to be made from it.

Resident Evil: Outbreak (File #1/2)

First RE game to go online, perfect example of true co-op and survival horror. Very difficult and rewarding. No RE game these days has gotten even close to how good that online was. Up to 4 players trying to survive in raccoon city, holding doors shut to keep zombies out, trying to heal each other, desperately conserving ammo. A unique communication system that kept people focussed and into the game rather than messing about on mic. Brilliant in every way and no doubt in my mind it was definitely the best online games ever. WHen the servers were taken off I was so sad. Now we’ve got action RE games with tacked-on co-op for the sake of just making it online. Sad times indeed.

Pain is probably one of our favourite multiplayer games of recent times. The game seems very simple at first but once you realise the high score possibilities woven into the physics we were all laughing and hooked for hours and hours. We would still fire it up now and again and find ourselves still hooked and finding out new ways to achieve high scores

Come to think of it we haven’t really touched the rest of the stages on offer, some simple games can be amazing if enough creativity has been forged into it

I think it has to be between call of duty & tekken for the best multiplayer. Mind They need to fix the cheating on tekken as its spoiled the ranking on t5..

I think it has to be between call of duty & tekken for the best multiplayer. Mind They need to fix the cheating on tekken as its spoiled the ranking on t5..

BF3 because… wel its just awesome. you want to get launched by a jeep? you got it! or just kill everyone with a helicopter is also very funny. the MP is awesome because almost everything is possible

I don’t like mp. I accept that there is a market for it and I see that market focussing on just a few games.
I hate the impact of the succes of these games that they have on the whole gaming market. Now, almost every game, seems to need a mp bullet on the back of the cover. Often that mp is mediocer and is played for a very short time. The budget of a game is limmited and a part of these resources are pulled from the sp to the mp.
I stopped buying these games day one because of that.
If I should choose a game, Jouney.

For me its Star Wars Battlefront. Not only was it amazing being able to play through your favourite battles with (or against) your friends, but it was great comparing experiences with each other. For example on the Hoth map my friend and I were getting our butts handed to us; then we saw Luke Skywalker charge past us and just as we said ‘with him helping we may have a chance’ an AT-AT stood on him…

Hopefully now that Disney own LucasArts, we might get Battlefront 3. One can only hope…

Best game of all times (for now) have to be gta4 its
the only game that you can do race deadmatches
co-op and even there is free mode where you
make everything you want that’s a game for everybody

Best MP game of all time, without a doubt, is Counter-Strike: Source. This was and still is the perfect competitive game; easy to learn, difficult to master. No ranks, no unlocks, just skill. Add to that the ability to mod the game how you wished and ease of map creation further increase the lifespan of the game greater than anything that has come since before or since.

For me its Wipeout 2048. Not many people around me play online games, so I was mostly playing with strangers, but I felt really good. Even though early on it seemed last place was reserved for me, but the game was so well designed that I never felt too frustrated.The netcode was also great and it ran smoothly on my 512kbps connection. Gradually I became a master of online, with the most amazing moment when I won 10 events in a row! Bombing others in combat events using rockets(my favourite) was always the highlight of the matches for me.
Shame to see Liverpool closing down.

This is such a difficult question as there are so many great games that deserve this title.

Super Mario Kart = Countless hours of battle mode between two opponents that actually caused real rivalries.

Doom = It invented deathmatch.

Goldeneye/Perfect Dark = 4 player split screen, ridiculous amount of options to tinker with.

Bomberman = Unbelievably addictive deathmatch, 10 player on the Saturn.

Project Gotham Racing 2 = One of the best Xbox multiplayer racing games, so many memories.

Halo 2 = One of the first FPS games that felt like PC lobby’s etc.

Call Of Duty = Made multiplayer the way it is today in 90% of shooters and even makes casual players pick up systems and games.

From all of these games, which are/were great games at the time I think the one game that blew my mind was Phantasy Star Online. It was the first Online RPG I played and it was fantastic.

As much boot licking this may sound, it’s Little Big Planet!

It’s such a blast when playing with friends on the house or perfect strangers online, you just pop into a level and you’re having fun. You can help other players through a difficult level they are having trouble with (or seek help if you’re the one having problems), race them to the end of the level or just build levels together. You can create your own levels, play what your friends make. There was a time where we even started what could be called “Sticker Wars” where we pulled the popit menu and started trying to glue stickers at each other. I really enjoyed it a lot, and when I was getting tired of the game, paintball guns appeared and the fun lasted a lot more time and then there was water… I have very fun memories of LBP

P.S. If this discussion was restricted to shooters, I would say Unreal Tournament and after that Bad Company 2.

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is my pick. Its assymetric gameplay in Versus mode provided variety and resulted in a throughly unique experience and the Co-op campaign is unmatched to this day. I think multiplayer stealth has a lot of potential and no game realised it better that CT. I cannot wait to see what Blacklist will do with these formulas.

When I was a kid, I loved fighting games best. Street Fighter II was my fuc*ing jam — why, I once came in “best non-Asian in competition” at the local arcade’s round robin — but I played every other major entry in the genre, too, all the way up to the Guilty Gear series. Then that game let me kill a transvestite nun with an electric guitar solo, and I knew it was all downhill from there. I haven’t played since.

Although maybe that’s more due to online multiplayer replacing in-person multiplayer: That switch, from personal to digital, raised a whole host of problems. Not the least of which was the inability to punch your friends in the arm after defeating them, or to simply look deeply into their eyes when you tell them to suc* it. That eye contact was important, you know; how else could they see into your soul and know — truly and fundamentally understand at a cellular level — that you really, really, really thought they should suc* it?

One word: Worms.

The feeling when I hear the theme melody is still overwhelming even today. This game had everything: awesome graphics, unlimited replayability, solid controls and a funny, memorable idea. But what was best about Worms was the sheer joy of the multiplayer experience. Waiting on the edge of your seat for your friend to push the launch button. You never knew what was going to happen. Sometimes you made that one in a thousand shot, other times you failed miserably, although often with hilarious consequences. And the helium-voices… Perfect multiplayer game!

Duke Nukem 3D.
Deathmatch over a LAN with your mates was awesome and you could also play co-op and this was in 1996 way before the current generic FPS games we’re subjected to. It was fresh and provided new ideas, Duke Nukem 3D was one of the first FPS games you could actually look up in. Yeah, old news now but at the time… The multiplayer maps also provided the option of playing vertically, another new feature. A lot of what you take for granted in the current FPS titles started in this game.
I’ve based my choice on the sheer amount of fun the game provided way back then and it was a close choice between this and Doom2. Another great game

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As a sign of my frustration with the store and blog staff, And anger at the way we are treated and scammed I will be boycotting the store and convincing others to do the same until you show us the respect we deserve as your paying customers.
Examples being,
– Blog staff ignoring important or useful questions.
– Replying to the same questions, sometimes on the same page.
– Inability to provide us with information (TWD, CS:GO)
– Promoting content, then on release saying its delayed.
– Promoting deals that don’t work and don’t fix (Dead Island).
– Releasing Content, then announce a discount a week later (WWE13).
– 95% of the PS2 games are garbage, release good games.
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– Forced to have a Singstar icon on the XMB.
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For me the greatest multiplayer would be Killzone 2. It is the game that convinced me that online multiplayer was something that could be exciting, addictive and as interesting as single player. Even though I have since moved on it will always be the game that changed my opinion on online gaming.

Mortal Kombat. You know, the 2D one on PS1. That was epitome of multiplayer. Brutal, pizza and coke scattered couch competition. Maybe games of series was a bit disbalanced back in the day, so sometimes you’ve end up punching your real friend sitting next to you… But it had felt awesome none the less.
And all this online stuff… sitting alone in a cold dark room… Hell with it, memories almost making me calling everyone who had a pair of thumbs to get a championship like once we had in childhood. FATALITY!

I think that micro machines 2 turbo tournament started it for mr the mega drive version the cartridge itself had two extra control ports and it enabled 4 players for the first time one mega drive without the adapter pure quality fun which is what I think multiplayer is all about