Top 10 Multiplayer-games
Hi. Since this site does not have enough generic top 10 lists, i am going to post my own one about multiplayer-games. I'm a huge multiplayer-addict, so this a list close to my heart.
Rules: must either be a really good party-game or a realy well balanced competetive game.
10. Any fighting-game
I'm not a huge fighting-fan and I haven't dedicated all my life to mastering 15-hit air-combos, but that doesn't matter. You just can't play a fighting-game and not have fun with it. Street fighter, virtua fighter, tekken, soul calibur, whatever. Every round you learn new ways to beat your enemy in the ground and you have many, many different set-ups. Too bad my friends aren't really into fighting-games, so i just ocasionally play them. (allthough I do play third strike online. Go to 2dfighter.com for more informations)
9.Bomberman 64 or bomberman tournament on the gameboy advance
All bomberman games are fun to play in multiplayer, but these 2 are the best in my opinion. As we all know: the more crazy ways to kill your enemy, the better the game. bomberman 64 had tons of em. you could kick someone with a bomb, you could pump up your bombs and throw them on the others, you could piggyback-ride someone into a bomb (that was especially annoying when you turned on ghost-mode, where the other players could do that after they died). The power-ups in this one are especially cool. There were 2 random-items, the cat and the skull. It's like russian roulette, since you can either get really, really destructive bombs (they fill half the screen if you pumped them up) or, well, catch on fire and burn to your death. The only down-side of the game is that the levels are blargh. This is a point where bomberman tournament shines. Since it's a 2d-bomberman, of course it has the standard grey-bricks map, but all the other maps have very distinct features, like landmines, teleporters, iglus (you can hide your bombs in there) etc. Even if you die, you can still be a dick to your friends and hurl bombs at them from the side of the map. That's awesome!
8. Warsow
If you haven't played this game: Do it. Now! It's free (warsow.net), so what are you waiting for?
Warsow is an extremely fun duel-fps, like quake or unreal tournament. In fact, it's even running on the quake 2 engine. You have all the weapons that you're used to, that means rocket launcher, plasma gun, shotgun, railgun and the rest of the quake-weapons. It's a very hectic game, but it controlls perfectly all the time. If you master the trickjumping-aspect of the game (that means strafe-jumping, bunnyhopping, wall-jumps, rocketjumps and so on), you will be dashing through the maps like the roadrunner and that's what makes the game so damn good. It's really, really fast. You'll never be away from the action, you're never facing a kid who likes to camp in the corner with his ak-47. Mass action all the time. Too bad that the community of this game is really small, but you'll allways be able to find a game.
7. Worms Armageddon
This game is total madness. Everything about this game is whacky. You're fighting on stages made of vegetables, with weapons like explosive grandmas or farting squirrels. Who would be stupid enough to invent those weapons? Worms of course. While the worms are fighting for our amusement, the...worm-airships drop a fresh supply of weapons or health-packs on the map every few rounds. Getting those can be tricky, but you'll definetly want to get those. You can get very strong weapons in it, like the holy grenade, the banana-bomb or the flying super-sheep. What makes this game is great, is the constant whimpering of your friends when it's your turn. Everyones trying to illustrate why it's the best strategical choice to kill the other team first. You have full controll over them, myahhh!
6.Half-life deathmatch
While this game is overall pretty cool, with kickass weapons and a nice engine (that means: you actually hit where you aim at, not like half-life 2 deathmatch...), this game is on the list for particular one map: Crossfire. It's the one you see in the picture. The main clue of this map is, that there's a bunker at the end of the map. If you get there at the right time, you can activate a nuke and then all hell is broken lose. The Nuke will destroy everything and everyone outside of the bunker and you only have so much time to reach it before the doors of it close. Inside the bunker are more than enough weapons to keep your foes outside and you can even climb up to a gigantic rocket-turret to show the others who's in controll here! It's just so much fun to defend the bunker against 5-10 enemies rushing at you (or trying to somehow reach it in time, while the other enemies are still shooting at you). It gets really frantic when someone managed to sneak into the bunker. Both of you are clutching for your life then, because if you respawn you'll allmost definetly get killed by the nuke. Too bad you can only activate the nuke every 3 minutes or so. Still my favourite fps multiplayer-map ever in one of the best FPS ever!
5. Timesplitters 2
This is the first console-shooter on this list and it's higher than the pc-shooters for a good reason: screaming your friends in the face after you went rampage on their asses is much more fun when they are sitting with you on the couch than when they are chilling with you on a teamspeak-server. I had a hard time deciding between Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Timesplitters, but ultimately I chose this because of the massive amount on options in this one. And because of the monkeys. I just like how quirky this game is. For example, there is one FFA-mode in the game, where every 30 seconds five monkeys spawn, armed with whatever weapons you chose for that round, and support the worst player at the time. While this is a pretty cool mode, it has several other cool modes aswell (15 others to be precise), which I wont explain all, but there are the standard ones like team-deathmatch, capture the flag or king of the hill, aswell as some more unusual ones like shrinking (your character gets smaller, the worse you play) or gladiator (You can only get points if you are the gladiator. You become the gladiator by killing the gladiator. At the beginning someone is randomly chosen to be the gladiator).
The next point of the game is the weapons. Perfect dark shines there aswell, with the laptop gun or the alien-weapons, but that just can't beat a round of FFA with flamethrowers, fire extinguishers, TNT and bricks. Yes, you can kill someone by throwing bricks at them. While your playing as the gingerbread-man. And running around in Neo-tokyo. Words can't describe this awesomeness. (Oh and it has stickybombs aswell. Take that Halo!)
All in all I think Timesplitters 2 is the best console-shooter multiplayer-wise, because you have endless ways to customize your rounds, be it a conventional one with rocketlaunchers, AKs and remote-mines or a funky one with crossbows and electrosappers with apes only as characters on king of the hill.
4. Guild Wars
Oh God, I love this game. Probably a bit too much. I've wasted more than 3 years with this game and I better not tell you my total hour-count. Being the multiplayer-addict that I am, I've played about 80% of the time on this game in PvP and I can say that this is one of the best and freshest multiplayer-experiences you can ever get. In other RPGs it's more like: Whoever has the best items wins. In Guild Wars everybody has the choice between same items, which makes the PvP 100% balanced. There are some really expensive items in the game, but they wont give you any advantage over the others, they just make you look cooler. The game overall is relatively complex, so I'll go a bit more in depth with this one.
First of all you have the class-system. You can chose for your main-class between 10 different classes, like the warrior, the necro, the monk, the ranger, the assassin etc. Then you can choose between the 9 remaining classes for your second-class. You can be a warrior-necromancer or a monk-paragon or whatever. The thing with your second-class is, that you can only use the ordinary skills from your second-class, not the better ones.
Next thing is your skillbar. You can choose between over one thousand skills at this time, but you can only take 8 skills of them with you in the battle. That means not everybody can be an all-arounder, but you have to work as a team. That's the beauty of the game, cause I've never seen a game where you have to work so well together. If even one player in your team is bad, you will most likely lose. If the monks don't protect your group wisely, you will die very quickly. If your warriors can't play right, you will never be able to kill anyone. If your anti-casters don't distract the enemy healers enough, you wont be able to kill anyone as well. If you can't keep the enemy warriors blind most of the time, your monks will run out of mana. I could write a novel about the strategic-choises you have in the fight, but I wont bore you with that. Even before the game even starts, you have very important things to decide, like what build you want to play. A build with lots of conditions like poison, bleeding where you want the enemy to degenerate over time? A spike-build, where you try kill one enemy at a time so fast that the monk can't react (the monks CAN allways react, but if your team is good it's getting really hard for the enemys to heal fast enough)? Allways keep in mind what the enemy is most likely to play and what build is best against that.
What keeps Guild Wars from the higher ranks on the list, is your reliability to the other guys in your team (teams consists of 8 people). You allways have to find a time where all 8 of you can play, you can't just go on and jump in the action (you can, but only in some boring arenas where you are thrown together with some random guys who can't play at all), but if you get together with the rest of your team, this is the best competetive team-game you can find.
3. Mario Kart: Double Dash
I'M GOING TO WRITE THIS WHOLE PARAGRAPH IN CAPITAL LETTERS, SO YOU CAN AT LEAST TO SOME DEGREE EXPERIENCE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUT THIS GAME IN. THE ROOM TRANSFORMS INTO A BOILING POT WITH PEOPLE SCREAMING LIKE THEY ARE IN SERIOUS PAIN, EVERYTIME THEY GET HIT BY A BLUE-SHELL. IT'S CRAZY. SOME PEOPLE MIGHT THINK THAT MARIO KART 64 IS THE BETTER PART OF THE SERIES, BUT I DISAGREE WITH THEM. ADDING A SECOND-DRIVER IS GENIOUS (I DON'T GET WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE: OH YEAH, A SECOND DRIVER. HOW CREATIVE. IT IS FUCKING COOL, SHUT UP.) YOU CAN STORE THINGS LIKE A RED-SHELL ON YOUR SECOND DRIVER, WHILE STILL PICKING UP ITEMS WITH YOUR FRONT-DRIVER. EVERY CHARACTER EVEN HAS A SPECIAL-ITEM, THAT ONLY HE CAN GET. BABY MARIO HAS A CHAINDOG THATS PULLING HIM FORWARD AND EATING EVERYONE IN SIGHT, BOWSER HAS A GIGANTIC BOWSER-SHELL, THAT ACTS LIKE A GREEN SHELL, ONLY TEN TIMES THE SIZE, MARIO CAN THROW FIREBALLS, WARIO CAN THROW BOMBS AND SO ON! YEP, MARIO KART 64 HAS SOME PRETTY COOL TRACKS LIKE RAINBOW-ROAD, BUT I WOULD SAY THE TRACKS IN DOUBLE-DASH ARE JUST AS GOOD. IT EVEN HAS THE ULTIMATE PARTY-TRACK: BABY PARK!! IT'S BASICALLY JUST ONE OVAL LAP WITH SOME ITEM-BOXES THROWN IN AND THAT'S IT. THAT MEANS ANY RETARD CAN WIN WITH GOOD ITEMS, BUT THAT ALSO MEANS THAT THERE ARE LIKE 15 DIFFERENT ITEMS ON THE TRACK ALL THE TIME. TOTALLY RADICAL! BEST PARTY-GAME EVER!
2. Warcraft 3: the frozen throne
While I enjoy evenings with friends alot, in the end I get more enjoyment with a good competetive game that I can play whenever I want and Warcraft 3 is the best competetive game out there. From the moment I played reign of chaos for the first time with my friend I was hooked. I have played some RTS before, like command and conquer or age of empires, but this game smashed the others in the ground. It had 4 races to choose from (nightelves, orcs, humans and undead) and they all played completely different. They are all perfectly balanced at the point, so you can choose whatever race you want and still win.
What makes this game different from the other RTS, besides that Blizzard made it (the guys who made starcraft aswell, the most successful RTS of all time), is that you not only controll your army, but you controll your heroes aswell. Those heroes are very powerfull units, which can decide a battle in some times. You can level them up (you do that by killing enemy units or neutral units, that are placed all over the map), give them items and skill them in sereval ways. Every hero has 3 skills to chose from, but most of the time you only skill 2 of them to make them stronger. If your hero becomes lvl 6, you can skill his ultimate. That's a very strong skill, which makes your hero even more important for your army. If you upgrade your main-building you can build a second hero and if you upgrade it one more time even a third hero. The heroes are what makes the game in my opinion. They add another layer to the RTS-genre. Your not just standing in your base now untill you attack, you are engaged all the time now. You're now leveling your hero up in the free time you have. Or do you not? Because if you level your hero up all the time, you are pretty much open to any attack of the enemy. You have to walk from across the map to your base then, which gives the enemy much time to destroy your buildings or you use a teleportation scroll, which brings you to your base in no time, but those scrolls cost much gold. You see, you are facing lots of decisions in the game.
Blizzard is a company known for quality games, with starcraft, diablo and world of warcraft, and I think they reached their peak with Warcraft 3. Perfect game itself, brilliant online-platform with the battle.net and a brilliant map-editor, with which the community created fantastic maps like DOTA, footmen frenzy or towerdefense.
So, what could be number one? What could trumph the madness that is Mario Kart or the perfect balance of Warcraft 3? It is...
1. Super Smash Brothers Melee
Yes, Super Smash Brothers Melee is the most fun Multiplayer-game ever. It trumps the other games, because it is not only one of the best party-games ever, but it's also a really, really deep fighting-game. Don't believe me? Check out these guys:http://www.youtube.com/wa...CmpuY Yes, I've covered ALL FIGHTING GAMES with place 10 allready, but Smash brothers isn't just an ordinary fighting-game. It's more than that. First of all is the fighting in itself totally different from any other traditional fighting game. The developers of this game wanted to combine the platforming of the Super Mario Bros. games with their first fighting-game, to create a totally unique form of fighting. And they suceeded in that. Second of all, the goal to victory is a different one than in any other traditional fighter. You don't just pummel the enemy to zero health, you have hit him from the plattform. This allows tricks like spiking, where you can hit someone with low percentage from the plattform if you're good. Third of all (can you even say that? :o), they implemented items into the game. The game changes his path about 180 degrees, wether you turn items on or off. With items on, the game is a perfect party-game. Haha, hit you with a homerun. Oh snap, walked into a mine. Yay, a heart-container. Every time a good item appears, everyone's rushing for it. Especially when it's a pokeball. Even though there might be just a little
If you turn the items off, it becomes a serious fighting-game. Suddenly you have to rely on combos and advanced techniques like wave-dashing, edge-guarding and shuffling. You have to know your enemy precisely and how you have to react to him, what combos work on him and so on. You even have to know the stage, because in smash brothers the stages actually have an influence on the game, unlike in street fighter or any other 2d-fighter. There are plattforms all over the stages and every stage is different. That's a thing that should be implented in every fighting game!
All in all I can say that Smash Brothers isn't only one of the best multiplayer-games ever, but overall aswell. It's a damn fine game :P
Hmmm, this blog has become longer than I wanted it to. Feel free to comment, I don't mind!
Rules: must either be a really good party-game or a realy well balanced competetive game.
10. Any fighting-game
I'm not a huge fighting-fan and I haven't dedicated all my life to mastering 15-hit air-combos, but that doesn't matter. You just can't play a fighting-game and not have fun with it. Street fighter, virtua fighter, tekken, soul calibur, whatever. Every round you learn new ways to beat your enemy in the ground and you have many, many different set-ups. Too bad my friends aren't really into fighting-games, so i just ocasionally play them. (allthough I do play third strike online. Go to 2dfighter.com for more informations)
9.Bomberman 64 or bomberman tournament on the gameboy advance
All bomberman games are fun to play in multiplayer, but these 2 are the best in my opinion. As we all know: the more crazy ways to kill your enemy, the better the game. bomberman 64 had tons of em. you could kick someone with a bomb, you could pump up your bombs and throw them on the others, you could piggyback-ride someone into a bomb (that was especially annoying when you turned on ghost-mode, where the other players could do that after they died). The power-ups in this one are especially cool. There were 2 random-items, the cat and the skull. It's like russian roulette, since you can either get really, really destructive bombs (they fill half the screen if you pumped them up) or, well, catch on fire and burn to your death. The only down-side of the game is that the levels are blargh. This is a point where bomberman tournament shines. Since it's a 2d-bomberman, of course it has the standard grey-bricks map, but all the other maps have very distinct features, like landmines, teleporters, iglus (you can hide your bombs in there) etc. Even if you die, you can still be a dick to your friends and hurl bombs at them from the side of the map. That's awesome!
8. Warsow
If you haven't played this game: Do it. Now! It's free (warsow.net), so what are you waiting for?
Warsow is an extremely fun duel-fps, like quake or unreal tournament. In fact, it's even running on the quake 2 engine. You have all the weapons that you're used to, that means rocket launcher, plasma gun, shotgun, railgun and the rest of the quake-weapons. It's a very hectic game, but it controlls perfectly all the time. If you master the trickjumping-aspect of the game (that means strafe-jumping, bunnyhopping, wall-jumps, rocketjumps and so on), you will be dashing through the maps like the roadrunner and that's what makes the game so damn good. It's really, really fast. You'll never be away from the action, you're never facing a kid who likes to camp in the corner with his ak-47. Mass action all the time. Too bad that the community of this game is really small, but you'll allways be able to find a game.
7. Worms Armageddon
This game is total madness. Everything about this game is whacky. You're fighting on stages made of vegetables, with weapons like explosive grandmas or farting squirrels. Who would be stupid enough to invent those weapons? Worms of course. While the worms are fighting for our amusement, the...worm-airships drop a fresh supply of weapons or health-packs on the map every few rounds. Getting those can be tricky, but you'll definetly want to get those. You can get very strong weapons in it, like the holy grenade, the banana-bomb or the flying super-sheep. What makes this game is great, is the constant whimpering of your friends when it's your turn. Everyones trying to illustrate why it's the best strategical choice to kill the other team first. You have full controll over them, myahhh!
6.Half-life deathmatch
While this game is overall pretty cool, with kickass weapons and a nice engine (that means: you actually hit where you aim at, not like half-life 2 deathmatch...), this game is on the list for particular one map: Crossfire. It's the one you see in the picture. The main clue of this map is, that there's a bunker at the end of the map. If you get there at the right time, you can activate a nuke and then all hell is broken lose. The Nuke will destroy everything and everyone outside of the bunker and you only have so much time to reach it before the doors of it close. Inside the bunker are more than enough weapons to keep your foes outside and you can even climb up to a gigantic rocket-turret to show the others who's in controll here! It's just so much fun to defend the bunker against 5-10 enemies rushing at you (or trying to somehow reach it in time, while the other enemies are still shooting at you). It gets really frantic when someone managed to sneak into the bunker. Both of you are clutching for your life then, because if you respawn you'll allmost definetly get killed by the nuke. Too bad you can only activate the nuke every 3 minutes or so. Still my favourite fps multiplayer-map ever in one of the best FPS ever!
5. Timesplitters 2
This is the first console-shooter on this list and it's higher than the pc-shooters for a good reason: screaming your friends in the face after you went rampage on their asses is much more fun when they are sitting with you on the couch than when they are chilling with you on a teamspeak-server. I had a hard time deciding between Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Timesplitters, but ultimately I chose this because of the massive amount on options in this one. And because of the monkeys. I just like how quirky this game is. For example, there is one FFA-mode in the game, where every 30 seconds five monkeys spawn, armed with whatever weapons you chose for that round, and support the worst player at the time. While this is a pretty cool mode, it has several other cool modes aswell (15 others to be precise), which I wont explain all, but there are the standard ones like team-deathmatch, capture the flag or king of the hill, aswell as some more unusual ones like shrinking (your character gets smaller, the worse you play) or gladiator (You can only get points if you are the gladiator. You become the gladiator by killing the gladiator. At the beginning someone is randomly chosen to be the gladiator).
The next point of the game is the weapons. Perfect dark shines there aswell, with the laptop gun or the alien-weapons, but that just can't beat a round of FFA with flamethrowers, fire extinguishers, TNT and bricks. Yes, you can kill someone by throwing bricks at them. While your playing as the gingerbread-man. And running around in Neo-tokyo. Words can't describe this awesomeness. (Oh and it has stickybombs aswell. Take that Halo!)
All in all I think Timesplitters 2 is the best console-shooter multiplayer-wise, because you have endless ways to customize your rounds, be it a conventional one with rocketlaunchers, AKs and remote-mines or a funky one with crossbows and electrosappers with apes only as characters on king of the hill.
4. Guild Wars
Oh God, I love this game. Probably a bit too much. I've wasted more than 3 years with this game and I better not tell you my total hour-count. Being the multiplayer-addict that I am, I've played about 80% of the time on this game in PvP and I can say that this is one of the best and freshest multiplayer-experiences you can ever get. In other RPGs it's more like: Whoever has the best items wins. In Guild Wars everybody has the choice between same items, which makes the PvP 100% balanced. There are some really expensive items in the game, but they wont give you any advantage over the others, they just make you look cooler. The game overall is relatively complex, so I'll go a bit more in depth with this one.
First of all you have the class-system. You can chose for your main-class between 10 different classes, like the warrior, the necro, the monk, the ranger, the assassin etc. Then you can choose between the 9 remaining classes for your second-class. You can be a warrior-necromancer or a monk-paragon or whatever. The thing with your second-class is, that you can only use the ordinary skills from your second-class, not the better ones.
Next thing is your skillbar. You can choose between over one thousand skills at this time, but you can only take 8 skills of them with you in the battle. That means not everybody can be an all-arounder, but you have to work as a team. That's the beauty of the game, cause I've never seen a game where you have to work so well together. If even one player in your team is bad, you will most likely lose. If the monks don't protect your group wisely, you will die very quickly. If your warriors can't play right, you will never be able to kill anyone. If your anti-casters don't distract the enemy healers enough, you wont be able to kill anyone as well. If you can't keep the enemy warriors blind most of the time, your monks will run out of mana. I could write a novel about the strategic-choises you have in the fight, but I wont bore you with that. Even before the game even starts, you have very important things to decide, like what build you want to play. A build with lots of conditions like poison, bleeding where you want the enemy to degenerate over time? A spike-build, where you try kill one enemy at a time so fast that the monk can't react (the monks CAN allways react, but if your team is good it's getting really hard for the enemys to heal fast enough)? Allways keep in mind what the enemy is most likely to play and what build is best against that.
What keeps Guild Wars from the higher ranks on the list, is your reliability to the other guys in your team (teams consists of 8 people). You allways have to find a time where all 8 of you can play, you can't just go on and jump in the action (you can, but only in some boring arenas where you are thrown together with some random guys who can't play at all), but if you get together with the rest of your team, this is the best competetive team-game you can find.
3. Mario Kart: Double Dash
I'M GOING TO WRITE THIS WHOLE PARAGRAPH IN CAPITAL LETTERS, SO YOU CAN AT LEAST TO SOME DEGREE EXPERIENCE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUT THIS GAME IN. THE ROOM TRANSFORMS INTO A BOILING POT WITH PEOPLE SCREAMING LIKE THEY ARE IN SERIOUS PAIN, EVERYTIME THEY GET HIT BY A BLUE-SHELL. IT'S CRAZY. SOME PEOPLE MIGHT THINK THAT MARIO KART 64 IS THE BETTER PART OF THE SERIES, BUT I DISAGREE WITH THEM. ADDING A SECOND-DRIVER IS GENIOUS (I DON'T GET WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE: OH YEAH, A SECOND DRIVER. HOW CREATIVE. IT IS FUCKING COOL, SHUT UP.) YOU CAN STORE THINGS LIKE A RED-SHELL ON YOUR SECOND DRIVER, WHILE STILL PICKING UP ITEMS WITH YOUR FRONT-DRIVER. EVERY CHARACTER EVEN HAS A SPECIAL-ITEM, THAT ONLY HE CAN GET. BABY MARIO HAS A CHAINDOG THATS PULLING HIM FORWARD AND EATING EVERYONE IN SIGHT, BOWSER HAS A GIGANTIC BOWSER-SHELL, THAT ACTS LIKE A GREEN SHELL, ONLY TEN TIMES THE SIZE, MARIO CAN THROW FIREBALLS, WARIO CAN THROW BOMBS AND SO ON! YEP, MARIO KART 64 HAS SOME PRETTY COOL TRACKS LIKE RAINBOW-ROAD, BUT I WOULD SAY THE TRACKS IN DOUBLE-DASH ARE JUST AS GOOD. IT EVEN HAS THE ULTIMATE PARTY-TRACK: BABY PARK!! IT'S BASICALLY JUST ONE OVAL LAP WITH SOME ITEM-BOXES THROWN IN AND THAT'S IT. THAT MEANS ANY RETARD CAN WIN WITH GOOD ITEMS, BUT THAT ALSO MEANS THAT THERE ARE LIKE 15 DIFFERENT ITEMS ON THE TRACK ALL THE TIME. TOTALLY RADICAL! BEST PARTY-GAME EVER!
2. Warcraft 3: the frozen throne
While I enjoy evenings with friends alot, in the end I get more enjoyment with a good competetive game that I can play whenever I want and Warcraft 3 is the best competetive game out there. From the moment I played reign of chaos for the first time with my friend I was hooked. I have played some RTS before, like command and conquer or age of empires, but this game smashed the others in the ground. It had 4 races to choose from (nightelves, orcs, humans and undead) and they all played completely different. They are all perfectly balanced at the point, so you can choose whatever race you want and still win.
What makes this game different from the other RTS, besides that Blizzard made it (the guys who made starcraft aswell, the most successful RTS of all time), is that you not only controll your army, but you controll your heroes aswell. Those heroes are very powerfull units, which can decide a battle in some times. You can level them up (you do that by killing enemy units or neutral units, that are placed all over the map), give them items and skill them in sereval ways. Every hero has 3 skills to chose from, but most of the time you only skill 2 of them to make them stronger. If your hero becomes lvl 6, you can skill his ultimate. That's a very strong skill, which makes your hero even more important for your army. If you upgrade your main-building you can build a second hero and if you upgrade it one more time even a third hero. The heroes are what makes the game in my opinion. They add another layer to the RTS-genre. Your not just standing in your base now untill you attack, you are engaged all the time now. You're now leveling your hero up in the free time you have. Or do you not? Because if you level your hero up all the time, you are pretty much open to any attack of the enemy. You have to walk from across the map to your base then, which gives the enemy much time to destroy your buildings or you use a teleportation scroll, which brings you to your base in no time, but those scrolls cost much gold. You see, you are facing lots of decisions in the game.
Blizzard is a company known for quality games, with starcraft, diablo and world of warcraft, and I think they reached their peak with Warcraft 3. Perfect game itself, brilliant online-platform with the battle.net and a brilliant map-editor, with which the community created fantastic maps like DOTA, footmen frenzy or towerdefense.
So, what could be number one? What could trumph the madness that is Mario Kart or the perfect balance of Warcraft 3? It is...
1. Super Smash Brothers Melee
Yes, Super Smash Brothers Melee is the most fun Multiplayer-game ever. It trumps the other games, because it is not only one of the best party-games ever, but it's also a really, really deep fighting-game. Don't believe me? Check out these guys:http://www.youtube.com/wa...CmpuY Yes, I've covered ALL FIGHTING GAMES with place 10 allready, but Smash brothers isn't just an ordinary fighting-game. It's more than that. First of all is the fighting in itself totally different from any other traditional fighting game. The developers of this game wanted to combine the platforming of the Super Mario Bros. games with their first fighting-game, to create a totally unique form of fighting. And they suceeded in that. Second of all, the goal to victory is a different one than in any other traditional fighter. You don't just pummel the enemy to zero health, you have hit him from the plattform. This allows tricks like spiking, where you can hit someone with low percentage from the plattform if you're good. Third of all (can you even say that? :o), they implemented items into the game. The game changes his path about 180 degrees, wether you turn items on or off. With items on, the game is a perfect party-game. Haha, hit you with a homerun. Oh snap, walked into a mine. Yay, a heart-container. Every time a good item appears, everyone's rushing for it. Especially when it's a pokeball. Even though there might be just a little
If you turn the items off, it becomes a serious fighting-game. Suddenly you have to rely on combos and advanced techniques like wave-dashing, edge-guarding and shuffling. You have to know your enemy precisely and how you have to react to him, what combos work on him and so on. You even have to know the stage, because in smash brothers the stages actually have an influence on the game, unlike in street fighter or any other 2d-fighter. There are plattforms all over the stages and every stage is different. That's a thing that should be implented in every fighting game!
All in all I can say that Smash Brothers isn't only one of the best multiplayer-games ever, but overall aswell. It's a damn fine game :P
Hmmm, this blog has become longer than I wanted it to. Feel free to comment, I don't mind!