Co-Op and Community
06 February 2008 by Administrator
I love co-op games. Single-player experiences are all well and good, but there's simply nothing better than working with friends to beat a game. In the last 7 years or so there has been a distinct absence of co-operative games, but recently that trend has been changing - "Gears of War", "Crackdown", "Resistance: Fall of Man", "Halo 3", "Hellgate: London", "Kane and Lynch" and "Lego Star Wars" to name a few. Co-op modes are famously difficult to do, and even harder to do well, but it's great to finally see developers making the effort and doing a good job of it. "Halo 3" is an obvious example of an excellent co-op experience, as I'm sure "Left 4 Dead" will be when that's released later this year.
What's really interesting me at the moment are the websites that developers are putting up to support their games and the communities that have formed around them. Bungie.Net and SteamCommunity.com create for you a profile page based on your in-game statistics, where you can browse the profiles of friends, set up groups, view in-game screenshots, and more. Very much like MySpace or Facebook, but centred completely around their games.
The two co-op/multiplayer games I'm most looking forward to this year are "Age of Conan" and "Left 4 Dead". What co-op or multiplayer games are you most looking forward to this year?
\Ryan
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