AC: Brotherhood's Multiplayer mode gave me one of my favorite online experiences ever. I was being hunted and after my pursuer took a pistol shot at me, I took off and a foot chase ensued until I rounded a corner and popped my disguise ability to blend in with a group of NPCs. A second later I see the impatient assassin run past me, look around a moment, then stab an NPC version of my main skin, voiding their contract. So satisfying.
Reminds me of back when Modern Warfare 2 was new and I would equip certain Perks and then I'd crawl on the ground and disguise myself as a corpse. It worked like a charm most of the time! Players would run past me without a second look and I'd have a clean shot of their back lol
Man I was always find a doppelgänger NPC of me and just walk around with them. One time the game spawned 3 NPCs that looked like me, all walking in a group so joined on and laughed my ass off as the other player kept stabbing the wrong NPC
My favorite moment wasn’t even by me. I was killed via poison by a player I never even saw. No idea when he even did it. Considering you basically have to be right beside someone to poison them, I was actually so impressed he killed me like that.
Regarding AC Brotherhood, I remember seeing those guys who would run around as well as the guys who would stand in the most conspicuous places possible so you couldn't attack them without revealing yourself. I always enjoyed trying to outfox them to get as many points and stay as hidden as possible.
Man I remember I had a target stand against a wall thinking he was safe. Took me forever but I was able to get on the roofs and run all the way around the perimeter to finally air assassinate him
They already mentioned it quite a few times and they also mentioned why they included it. Mainly because every time they excluded it, people felt they had games spoiled for them, even if they thought what was shown didn't constitute as a spoiler.
To add to this list I would say the Fragile Alliance mode from Kane And Lynch: Dead Men. The objective was to be a bunch of bank robbers in balaclavas stealing money. However if you were feeling cheeky, you could betray your team and try and take the money all for yourself.
I actually loved that on the 360. 4 years ago when I transfered from Xbox One to PC. I saw it on Steam. Was so happy but Unfortunately I could never find a match.
@@exxelsetijadi5348 For awhile, not long after she was introduced, Sombra had the rotation of being useless and picking her was "throwing", so the rest of the team would either quit or harass you all round. Only later, as people adapted to her playstyle did she become meta and therefore acceptable.
Portal 2 had pretty great multiplayer. It introduced unique puzzles with strategies and mechanics that were unique to that mode, and even hinted at different aspects of the Aperture story. Plus, those little robots were so cute and you could make them hug each other! ♥️
I always loved Perfect Dark's Counter-op mode. One player is Joanna Dark, the other is a random grunt somewhere on the level. Agent Dark has to get her objectives, and the other player has to kill her. The grunt player is given a suicide pill so they can force a respawn if they don't like where/who they are. It was lots of fun, especially since it was split-screen so there were always cries of "no peeking!"
@@arnox4554 I can imagine, my brother used to play it with me all the time and sometimes he would just commit suicide until there were no more enemies left.
Came to post this. Perfect Dark's multiplayer... hell, even their AI in the multiplayer... was leaps and bounds better than many other games, even to this day. Come back, sims!
I used to do this all the time with a friend. We did it so much, that we actually ended up doing a whole run where the 'hunter' was a traitor and just killed everything that wasn't Joanna. Didn't go well, but was a riot all the same.
"traditionally, murder is a solo endeavor. Once there is more than a couple of you it is a screen movie or possibly a dnd party" I think we can remove the "possibly" from that sentence.
Shhh murder hobos will be murder hobos. Also don’t ask about the dwarf martial arts school. I totally DIDN’T challenge all of them to a fight and win and then continued to beat them up.
also, just prop hunt; hide and seek while someone just trashed an entire map looking for the player who was a soda can. prey had a fun version of this with people playing as mimics
Mp5k003 I haven’t played CoD in a long time, I had no idea they had prop hunt! I was just thinking about Prey and their prop hunt mode when I was typing this :\
@@colling83 Oh, prop hunt started with Garry's Mod and has been a fan fave amongst devs ever since. CoD4: Modern Warfare Remastered was the last cod to feature it I think, though I never played anything past Advanced Warfare, at least until MW came out.
Ghost De Razgriz I knew it started with Garrys mod but I didn’t know it had made it to console on anything other than Prey’s prop hunt! Thanks for letting me know bc i’m gonna need to check it out
one of my favorite multiplayer moments was in the cat and mouse mode of assassins creed, i was having an amazing game silently assassinating my targets without giving myself away, blending in perfectly, and ending the game by walking with a flow of npcs, while my target was coming from the opposite direction toward me. My heart was beating out of my throat as we neared each other, idk if he knew who i was, but i knew which was him. it was a race to hit the assassinate button. the catharsis of having not only evaded everyone, but also killed them was unmatched. far better than just assassinating npcs in the story, who wait at ledges and bushes to be stabbed.
I gotta say, one of my favorite Multiplayer gamemodes was The Last of Us' multiplayer gamemode. Sure it was mainly a deathmatch, but it did some really cool things with it which made it unique.
ya. Spy's vs mercs was half the reason why i believed chaos theory was the best game in the entire series. idky but the later installments just didnt feel as... cool
@@Gatorade69 ya. while I enjoyed some of the combat/gameplay changes. I kinda missed the whole sound/light meter. and then the story just kept going down hill. Specially considering that the "kill your friend" ending in double agent is apparently teh canon one.
Dead Space 3's co-op mode was amazing. I played it with my friend and I'll never forget the moment she went, "wtf is up with all these creepy dolls???" only for me to go, "WHAT dolls???" We proceeded to have a monumental freak out as we realized what was happening. Good times.
"Zombie Apocalypse or kick-out time at the pubs." I've been in Dublin after 11PM this is the most brilliant and hilariously true observation I've ever read. Mike needs a medal!!!!
I remember i had a game on brotherhoods multi that everyone was after me and i killed my target then had to hard core par core for my life eventually i was able to get just enough time to sit on a bench next to a window after running from around a corner and i got to watch everyone par core out the window and me getting the 'you lost your follower' bonus for each player in the match lol.
*cough, cough* i think you all may have forgotten the hit classic Watch_Dogs where you can play as a fixer and ruin someone else's story experience, also the multi person free for all that takes everyone out of the main story just to shoot and blow one another up
Gravity Rush 2's multiplayer was by far the most unique & genuinely fascinating I've ever experienced, you didn't need PS+, people _generally_ were very kind about it, & the game feels hollow for its loss. There were a couple different aspects, the one most similar to other games was this post-game dungeon thing where you can find places where other players had died & loot their ghost (still getting Distress Calls but can't act on them), but the core of it were the Challenge Missions, Treasure Hunts, & Ghosts. Ghosts, represented as shiny blue versions of Kat, were places where other players had used the camera feature in their game, they popped up pretty randomly & if you interacted with them you could see the picture they'd taken, some of which were pretty spectacular. Interactions brought in Dusty Tokens which unlocked various rewards, items, emotes, & infinite flight & you could see when someone interacted with your photo. It unfortunately never worked particularly well, so your best bet was to just take a bunch in areas where you'd load into the game. Made the mistake of taking like 20 pictures of Dusty when I unlocked all the cat bed options. I was getting notifications for those things for weeks, it's _most_ of my Notifications. For Challenge Missions it's basically you vs the record of someone else in various contests, either in combat or several different types of races. You'd go up against variously colored ghosts of the other players, up to 3, & it made for a hectic, fun time. I actually learned quite a lot about movement from watching these ghosts. These ghosts would also appear in gold in the over-world so you could tell when a mission was waiting for you, they'd even go through the first few seconds of their motion. ie; if you jumped straight up as soon as it started, your ghost would jump in my game when I received the challenge. Treasure Hunts were my favorite though, basically scavenger hunts with a photo taken by the other player, you'd get a photo of the chest & hopefully enough of the surroundings to be able to hunt it down with an indicator noise for when you're close. Furniture for your house & emotes came from treasure chests. Unfortunately now that they've shut it down permanently & therefore this content is basically forever gone. You _can_ still find treasure chests scattered throughout the world but the indicator noise is entirely gone & they randomly spawn in & out of an absolutely absurdly huge map. Near the end of things there were a few communities that worked together to allow other players to earn the tokens & treasure chests, basically you add as many people as possible as a PSN friend so you can send Challenges, go to the first Challenge Mission & score as low as possible so all they have to do is score a few points to win. Not all the Challenge Missions were like this, there was plenty of challenge to be had with ones that unlocked later in the story, but I only saw a handful of people actually send out high scores on that first one. Treasure Hunts were a little harder, since it entirely depends on how good a picture people took for the hint & there were way more trolls in this part of things, had more than a few that were just the chest as close as possible to the camera, but generally people were kind. Some areas of the game didn't lend themselves to this mode though, woe to anyone who got Hunts in the slum area, a genuine nightmare scenario right there especially in the weeks right before the shut down. Never actually answered a Distress Call, but I do still get them in my notifications with new Avatars next to the text & it's kind of depressing, I try to avoid looking at that section when I boot up the game.
one multiplayer mode i liked quite a bit was Evolve’s “Extinction” mode, which was like a mini campaign where you played all the modes the game had, and depending on the hunters or monster winning affected the next match. it was a really cool and enjoyable online mode, and it’s a shame more games didn’t do it
@@cacs2201 ya. it was basically just 3 matches back to back. i remember the mode. cuz hunters would get a def upgrade like station turrets. while monster would get things like a brood pack upgrade for pushing bases. now if only they didnt advertise the game to the COD crowd and kill the game at launch.
I had a similar experience to the Dead Space 3 mode with Kane and Lynch. During 1 mission I was guarding the downstairs of a bank while my buddy was upstairs attacking the vault. We had a bunch of hostages, but cops would occasionally sneak in and I would snipe them. Eventually my friend yelled at me for killing the hostages. We had to look at each others screens to verify that one of us wasn't lying. Turns out I was surrounded by lots of NPCs instead of cops.
Brotherhood's multiplayer was SO GOOD, and because of it, it remains my favorite AC to date. Everyone was also on an equal playing field, unlike CoD, CSGO, or PubG, etc... a LOT less toxicity too!
Commenter recommendation: "Giants: Citizen Kabuto." Up to five players play as Meccaryns (comedic British space marines with jetpacks), up to three play as Sea Reapers (mermaid wizards with swords), and one lucky sumbitch gets to play as a gigantic horned monster that eats everything.
I'm glad someone else remembers a great game I unfortunately never got to play the multiplayer since I didn't even know it had one. Lol I was to into the story to check.
I like the co-op mode Fantastic 4 (the first one, not the sequel), it was awesome how every character had their unique characteristics, so the players needed to cooperate to solve any puzzles, instead of just one player doing the puzzles while the other is running in circles like a headless chicken...
Helios9826 I never played the one you’re talking about but I think the sequel rise of the silver surfer is underrated. I mean it’s nothing special but I loved how you could switch between any of the 4 characters at any time and it was a beat em up just like the X-men legends or marvel ultimate alliance games.
I cannot express in words just how strongly I miss the AC multiplayer mode... I still remember the hours that I sunk into Multiplayer across the different AC Titles... And I remember how sad I was when I saw the online community dwindling as I tried to play AC3 Multiplayer.... I have a small sliver of hope every time I hear about a new AC game, just praying that they will bring the multiplayer mode back.... :'(
Last Of Us Factions. My favorite multiplayer. It's not just a multiplayer copy of the single player game, it adds so many abilities and weapons. It's customizable and you can try out so many different loadout so you can be a healer, support, stealth, assault/dps class. And there is a lot of strategy and there's nothing like being the last person standing. It gets the heart pumping and gives such a rush. Factions is one of the best and unique MP modes out there.
missing Kane and Lynch's fragile alliance game mode. team of crooks with the objective to steal money and escape from the cops, only at any point people can betray one another for a bigger share of the money at the loss of your allies over the course of several rounds. a fun game of how far can you trust your allies that is just crying to be added into a Battle Royale game mode.
The Cycle is a BR with a similar mechanic. If you're playing solo you can form a contract with an opponent, making each of you more vulnerable, and splitting any resources acquired. Either player can cancel this at any time and immediately go back to being solo rivals.
I liked Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City's multiplayer mode, but I also had a group of friends that would play it with me. It was unique enough that it stands out in my mind.
Perfect Dark had a nice Co-op version of the campaign, but then also had a *counter* operative mode, where the second player would play random enemies throughout the standard single player campaign. It was interesting.
I only ever played one game that had a "multi player mode": Journey. It was quite interesting as you only ever had one companion at a time but if you lost sight of that companion, another player that was playing in the same level and was near you could/would be loaded in to be your new companion. And you could hardly tell until the end when the game listed your companions throughout your journey. There also was no real communication between two players that were somewhat co op partners/companions.
One of my favorites is Affordable Space Adventures for the WiiU(stop judging, it was a decent system). In it you pilot a POJ space pod exploring a planet while all of your ships functions from flight and engine control constantly breakdown. Fun in of itself going solo, you could assign up to two others to aid in controls of various parts of the ship to solve problems. It was very unique gameplay. Many things could only solved with communication and flawless-simultaneous co-operation. Lots of family fun. And by fun, I mean yelling.
Milsim roleplay servers managed to get dozens, even hondreds of strangers on the internet to work together! You just have to not be afraid of kicking out the undesireables.
@@thegrayowl1557 Or install the WH40k mod, and wait to be inundated with an entire regiments worth of people screaming "Blood for the Blood God!"/"For the Emprah!"/"WAAAAAAAAAAAGH" (delete as appropriate). Rimmys crew, the XXth Cadian, is especially degenerate, having recently dabbled with narcotics and -anime camwhores- online sex workers SIMULTANEOUSLY
I feel one of the coolest things about AC Brotherhood's multiplayer mode was that it did Social Stealth better than the story mode. Social Stealth in Singleplayer wasn't actually social stealth but line of sight based stealth with a paintjob instead blending into a system where detection is based on deviations from the system. You could replace crowds and benches with bushes and the result would be the same. In contrast, Multiplayer required you to actually watch your surroundings and act like the environment you're in to succeed rather than running around, hiding on a bench for a few seconds. Even your tools helped not by physically hiding you but by making others act in an "unacceptable" way by running around or huddling around for coins
damn Ubisoft always had the coolest and most unique multiplayer ideas. they really need to bring back those instead of the garbage looter shooters they made recently
I’m upset you guys didn’t include the Link Tree from Pokemon Black & White. What’s more inventive than letting you roam around your friend’s world, visiting landmarks, leaving gifts, and SPIRITING AWAY THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF ONE OF THEIR CITIES
Last of us omg the best multiplayer ever. Talk about a hidden gem hidden under a mountain of other gems, that is the story. Broke my heart when naughty dog said they wouldn't include MP in Last of us 2😢
If only they could've given it proper balance. 2LP full auto rifle that is objecively worse than the 0LP 9mm pistol, perks like Brawler 2 and Bomb Expert 3 giving you free unavoidable kills, the fucking flamethrower being broken strong at launch then broken weak after 1 patch and never touched again, easy 1 shot kills with the Burst Rifle, maps like Water Tower and Bill's Town having inescapable spawn traps... the core of a great experience was there, but Goddamn did Naughty Dog drop the ball on its balance.
(6:00) Well, one solution is that; if someone runs and stabs people, the crowd runs away in fear, giving you a chance to run away or run into the stabber. There could also be soldiers who can try to arrest or kill the player who aren't using stealth kills.
I really missed Aliens vs. Predator™ from 2010 with the possibility to play Marines, Predators and Xenomorphs with the different approches to the game like mobility and weaponry
Star Ocean 3 - a JRPG, mind you - had a one-on-one versus mode where each player picked from any of the recruitable characters with a set skill list, and the players would proceed to beat each other up until somebody won. I never had the opportunity to actually play it with anyone, but it was definitely a unique way for a JRPG to try to insert some kind of multiplayer mode.
That Driver SanFran multi must have been crazy woth all that car jumping! If it was still alive that would be a perfect stream/video material for OX ... we need more crazy multiplayers modes people!!
Uncharted 3 had a fun 2v2 mode. The teams took turns being the heroes, trying to bring treasures back to their chests, while the other team were villains trying to stop them. The villains were weaker than the heroes, but were backed up by a few AI grunts. And if you did manage to kill a hero, you were awarded medels, which you could upgrade your villains weapons and armor with.
Command & Conquer Renegade has one of the best multiplayer modes I've ever played. It was a first/third person shooter where the teams were generally about 10-20 players each, but it varied depending on the server. I've seen teams of 64 vs 64 at times. Each team had a base with different buildings that provided a function to your team. You'd have an infantry class upgrading building, a vehicle production building, resource gathering building, automated base defenses, power plant, etc. The objective of the game was to destroy the enemy's base while protecting your own. Once a building was destroyed, it was gone for good and the team lost the functionality of that building. So, destroy an enemy power plant and all their automated defenses would shut down. Or destroy a vehicle production facility and they would no longer be able to produce vehicles, etc. The game was a whole load of fun and worked well as a real team-based game where you'd perform coordinated assaults on the enemy's base, but it also allowed sneaky infiltration if you felt more like going lone wolf.
Only if you call Super Mario Maker a multiplayer game as well, or putting mods in Skyrim. Personally, I wouldn't as you aren't directly involved in gameplay with another player. It's just playing with someone else's toy.
Lucas Arts old school Outlaws had a pretty good multiplayer - "Kill the fool with the chicken"...everyone against one person, who got points for staying alive, but the chicken always made noise, letting everyone else know where you were.
Driver San Francisco was the best game in the series. Incredibly deep, incredibly underrated, and incredibly difficult to get your hands on now without the assistance of some strong Voodoo magic.
God, the Arkham Origins multiplayer was fun as hell. I distinctly recall getting the "clutch" achievement by killing Robin while a very southern guy yelled "GET 'IM BROTHER!" over mic.
Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising. 64 player military shooter goodness. Massive maps ( A bit too big actually) and an element way ahead of it's time. You could actually walk or drive on to vehicles! Cue everyone piling on to a transport helicopter only to find someone on the other team had planted explosives on it....
The thing you forgot to mention about Batman Arkham Origins was the other game mode where there wasn’t any respawns so you became absolutely terrified of any noise you heard as failing to spot batman before he got close meant instant death.
It sounds similar but different. There was a mod called Zombie Master back in the Source days that was similar, a bunch of survivors had to scavenge car parts to escape while the "Zombie Master" played the game top down like an RTS and could spawn hordes and tell them where to attack. First "game" I saw with that kind of gameplay.
I loved Evolve's 1v4 multiplayer, where one player would be the monster that evolved over three stages as it fed on wildlife while four other players would be the monster hunters. The first stage for the monster was quite weak, the second stage an on-par with the hunters and the final stage giving the monster one up over the hunters. Hunters also had different classes (Assault/Medic/Support/Trapper).
A personal favorite hidden gem of multiplayer modes for me is Light vs. Dark in Kid Icarus Uprising. Sure, it's more or less a team death match, but the more powerful your weapon, the more points your team lost. When it reached 0, the person who died became Pit or Dark Pit depending on the team. If they died, you lose. Defeating players while they have Pit or Dark Pit out reduced the HP of Pit/Dark Pit, but could not KO them.
After reading so many comments I've come to the only logical conclusion: that I'm one of the two gamers in the world that played Call of Juarez: The Cartel in the coop-mode. It was amazing, as you were one of three players who, while trying to complete the same objective, all had their separate personal objectives to fulfill while none of the other players should catch you complete it.
Brotherhoods multiplayer was incredible. You could play it stealthily and win the game with something like 3/4 kills. I remember watching an absolute clusterfuck going off down the street. I was incognito, so about 6 people all piled in a massacre of killing their targets. Then mine came sprinting down the street towards me aaaand jooked with my hidden blade, straight to the top of the score board. Then you’d have multiple hunters after you the higher on the board you were, and that’s when you had to just get your parkour on and Houdini people like mad, QUICK! run round the corner and decor as another NPC! Then stun your attackers when they go for the wrong one. It was amazing.
The Timesplitters series deserves a mention just because the built in (even on console) map editor let you create assault maps. Basically team based story maps where one side had objectives and the other had to stop them completing them. You could make your own asynchronous multiplayer games before that was even a thing! I made a map where one team had to attach mines to a remote control cat to blow up a switch to let themselves through. Sadly this was before online gaming was really a thing, so only me and my brother ever played it. :(
A good addition would be the multiplayer for Geist for gamecube. It was a traditional deathmatch mode, except rather than picking up new weapons, you possess new soldiers with different weapons equipped (including a hidden woman in a towel, who you could only find by possessing a bat and flying on top of the cave. She did one hit kills with her towel 😂)
Gosh I miss brotherhood. I really loved the multiplayer mode was a lot of fun. Another great multiplayer that was amazing from the PS3 era was Metal Gear Solid 4 -MGO2 that was super fun and amazing.
Fun fact: The driver game referenced is one of the few examples of gaming in the second person. Everyone knows first and third person perspective for its majority of the market...but theres a mission where you're in a chase car but controller inputs control the car your following while mirroring your inputs
TimeSplitters (particularly 3, on the PS2 etc.) had some wacky game modes, including monkey assistant (a deathmatch where the person in last would be given a legion of shotgun toting monkeys to fight for them), and shrink (where you shrank over time until you became too small and were eliminated, and had to kill other players to gain size, but where being small gave you a tactical advantage in being harder to hit and made you move faster, with no effects on your damage or durability).
A neat runner up for this list is Geist's "Ghost Versus Host" mode, where one team played as ghosts and had to possess their enemies and lead them into traps, where the others had anti-possession grenades and bullets to free their allies. Metal Gear Solid 4 also had a mode very similar to the Batman one in this video! (As well as a handful of other interesting modes, including a stealth battle royale.)
Natural Selection 2 Each side has a commander that plays the game like a RTS, complete with a top down view of the map, where they can place buildings, and research upgrades. Meanwhile, all the other players played it like a FPS, acting like units in the game. In addition, the two teams were unique. The Frontiersmen were the typical space marines with the guns and tech. The other team consisted of aliens that relied on melee attacks, but could climb on walls or fly, among other abilities. Also, there's A Way Out, where the multiplayer relied on both players working together. What set it apart was that the game never stopped. If one player was in a cutscene, the other one could still wander around.
Assassins creed multiplayer was great fun. My fondest memory is when I fully owned a kid who started shouting "which one is you?" As I used decoys and a couple of decoys walked off, I walked off, turned around and knocked him out.
Just gonna say it: The Uncharted series had a weirdly fun Multiplayer mode that tackled not just shooting enemy players, but also climbing to different vantage points to get a leg up on them.
You didn't mention the follow-up reason as to why the Dead Space 3 co-op was so good, and that's that the premise transferred to the actual gameplay. During the co-op missions, Carver would frequently get stuck in a hallucination, all with its own enemies (which could kill you, Dead Space hallucinations are like that), while Isaac would just "stay behind" in reality, fighting the real enemies, all the while you see Carver's character having basically a seizure, and you need to protect him. Now you might think this takes away from the "co-op", and you'd probably be right, but it was a great experience. The reason for that is that once you started the co-op mission, there was no way to tell when and how the hallucinations would start. This would mean the Carver player would get progressively more stressed and would panic big time once stuck in the hallucination (because they're sudden, dangerous, you're alone in them, and they vary in "objectives" you need to do to get out of them), while the Isaac player suddenly realizes they have to to protect their teammate, also alone, but they have the benefit of knowing the layout, objective and most of the enemies that will appear, making them naturally more calm in the situation. What this resulted in (if you were on voice-chat at least) was that the Carver player is stressed and panicking and has no idea what's happening, while the Isaac player is trying to snap his friend out of it so they can focus because if they won't they're both gonna die. Which is exactly what the cutscenes tell too. They managed to perfectly replicate the story elements with the gameplay. And that made it incredibly fun and atmospheric.
The first Contagion's multiplayer was quite interesting. At first glance the game seems like a spiritual successor/homage to Resident Evil Outbreak, where a group of survivors make their way cooperatively through a series of somewhat randomized levels, helping each other out by sharing ammo, healing items, and watching each other's backs. However, being a zombie game, there must be infection, and, when the option was enabled being attacked by a zombie had a chance of infecting a player with the zombie virus. As you succumb to the infection, your movements become slower, your audio starts to dim, and your screen loses color, until at last you become one of the infected. Now you have a choice: you can turn on your erstwhile teammates, summoning NPC zombies to you and mobbing them or blending into hordes until you can sink your teeth into their unsuspecting backs or, like a true hero, you can use your zombie calls to draw zombies *away* from the human survivors, helping them to escape even though you won't be able to join them. Further, if you joined a server after all the playable humans had already been selected, you'll begin the round as a zombie, where the same rules apply, except now you have no incentive to help the group of strangers you've not previously been surviving alongside.
I really want a new and improved version of Assassin's Creed multiplayer. It was like a big game of Where's Waldo, but you're all Waldo, and Waldo wants you to die. I miss that game.
There was a Starsky and Hutch game that had support for both steering wheels and light guns. One player would drive the car and the other would shoot at targets. It was incredibly fun. It was also possible to play co op by yourself, driving one handed while shooting with your other. Too bad there aren't any light gun console games any more, it's a genre I really miss.
Actually, Mike, my loyalty to this channel extends that far. Yes, I would watch the "7 generic multiplayer modes too tedious this world" list. I would also watch you watching paint dry and delivering commentary on the process. That's how loyal I am. Or bored. But really, that's how our relationship works: you make it, I watch it and click the like button to ward off evil demons and show you I appreciate your work. Now, can I have the tedious list, please? Thank you!
I loved the AC multiplayer. Probably one of my most favorite game modes ever! I literally bought AC: Brotherhood and whatever the sequel was to play the multiplayer only! If only it came back and was a bit more fleshed out, I think it could be it's own standalone game.
i played as Carver in Dead Space 3, and enjoyed the different hallucinations, especialy on side missions where Carver sees giant gift boxes and toy solders. My brother honestly thought i was messing with him.
The Assassin's Creed multiplayer got even better when they added coop multiplayer matches where a team of four could go after AI targets for points and xp. Best part was the variety of characters, that all had different backgrounds and customizations. Barber from Brotherhood will be my all time favorite.
Nick Robinson's YT channel is almost entirely devoted to his obsession with the genius of Driver San Francisco (how it's shift mechanic was brilliant, fun and intuitive; and how the game was taken off the market for no apparent reason, despite it being very good. His theory is the licensed cars' deals ran out, among other things). He even made a video about how it's essentially the only game to feature a segment in the "2nd Person Perspective". As we know, 1st person is you look through your character's eyes, 3rd person is basically you are the camera controlling your character remotely from various viewpoints, but what would 2nd person look/feel like?! Watch the video, it's already got millions of views, but it's truly excellent so I figured I'd plug it since Mike kind of dumped on the game a little. I thought it was superb, and a huge surprise (as a fan of the PS1 Driver games, pre-GTA 3).
Damn I really miss the multiplayer from AC Brotherhood. It really is the most fun i’ve ever had with a multiplayer mode. So damn underrated! Hope they include it in their future games.
AC: Brotherhood's Multiplayer mode gave me one of my favorite online experiences ever. I was being hunted and after my pursuer took a pistol shot at me, I took off and a foot chase ensued until I rounded a corner and popped my disguise ability to blend in with a group of NPCs. A second later I see the impatient assassin run past me, look around a moment, then stab an NPC version of my main skin, voiding their contract. So satisfying.
Reminds me of back when Modern Warfare 2 was new and I would equip certain Perks and then I'd crawl on the ground and disguise myself as a corpse. It worked like a charm most of the time! Players would run past me without a second look and I'd have a clean shot of their back lol
@@tyrus1235 Have had that done to me in Black Ops 4, and I've actually managed to pull it off as well.
So this was basically Gmod's guess who.
Man I was always find a doppelgänger NPC of me and just walk around with them. One time the game spawned 3 NPCs that looked like me, all walking in a group so joined on and laughed my ass off as the other player kept stabbing the wrong NPC
My favorite moment wasn’t even by me. I was killed via poison by a player I never even saw. No idea when he even did it. Considering you basically have to be right beside someone to poison them, I was actually so impressed he killed me like that.
Regarding AC Brotherhood, I remember seeing those guys who would run around as well as the guys who would stand in the most conspicuous places possible so you couldn't attack them without revealing yourself. I always enjoyed trying to outfox them to get as many points and stay as hidden as possible.
If you are bad at sneaking; just stand where everyone else can see. Nobody will kill you, because someone else will kill them!
Man I remember I had a target stand against a wall thinking he was safe. Took me forever but I was able to get on the roofs and run all the way around the perimeter to finally air assassinate him
The best part of the video is that they finally admit some of the "spoiler" warnings makes absolute no sense
I consider the spoiler list, a spoiler in itself.. so i always skip it.
I imagine it’s a better be safe than sorry idea. Too many angry comments about spoilers probably
It's the same as the one about"safe houses being invaded" where the spoiler section itself spoils the game anyway
They already mentioned it quite a few times and they also mentioned why they included it. Mainly because every time they excluded it, people felt they had games spoiled for them, even if they thought what was shown didn't constitute as a spoiler.
They've admitted it before, though, haven't they?
Alternative title for this video, "Man, Ubisoft has some weird ideas sometimes."
Hey those weird ideas can be great, especially when it switches up the monotony of your regular Deathmatch type gamemode.
I also loved the invasion mode in Watch Dogs
Weird doesn't mean bad
Choro deivid also doesn’t usually mean enjoyable
@@MultiPaco06 Watch Dogs has great MP only problem is not enough variety in things to do
"Look on the brightside: we haven't had a sequel to WW2 either." Best brightside ever.
It's always a bright side with Egbert =)
Haven't had a sequel YET. -sorry from the US 😐
@@Victorina ?
2020 is still young.
except that we kinda have, just using other countries as puppets...
Assassin’s Creed Multiplayer: A Turing Test TO THE DEATH!
Needs more likes.
The Ship did it first
Finally found where that game mode came from
Genuinely enjoyed the mode though. Had great times with it.
I usually hate multiplayer competitive games but those games were so good they definitely should make a return.
To add to this list I would say the Fragile Alliance mode from Kane And Lynch: Dead Men. The objective was to be a bunch of bank robbers in balaclavas stealing money. However if you were feeling cheeky, you could betray your team and try and take the money all for yourself.
thanks i was hoping for that too.
I agree. Also shout out to Payday and GTA 5, which were inspired by the same movie (Heat) as K&L.
Which my horrid ass regularly did because I hated my team and did it for the lolz.....
Razor Sharp Sarcasm never works like that tho
@@alptigin5438 you know what, the 'fragile alliance' idea would be great for GTA Online's heists...
Jane: “Get over it.”
Andy: “NEVER!”
I think that pretty much sums up Andy. 😁
I love the moderately terrified “uh...Jane” when she powered up her night vision goggles.
Well, they're used to much worse.
Night vision goggles that reveal your position to the enemy. Brilliant.
thoughtengine what has Jane to fear from such a thing?
That's normal for a robot/cyborg though isn't it?
"Until someone comes up with a better Batman multiplayer game-"
And here I am, still praying for a Gotham City Imposters sequel.
I actually loved that on the 360. 4 years ago when I transfered from Xbox One to PC. I saw it on Steam. Was so happy but Unfortunately I could never find a match.
Such a cool game back then.
I need more of Andy being salty at the idea of people not knowing how WWII ended.
How did it end though?
@@Ag3nt0fCha0s with lots of deaths?
@@ieasy12 Well that sucks. Do all wars end like that?
@@Ag3nt0fCha0s Not the Cold War.
@@jonahanderson9210 That one ended with hypothermia
On Andy's headstone:
"HITMAN GHOST MODE SUX!"
"MIKE CHEATS!"
I remember the multiplayer mode unique to Overwatch, where if you picked Sombra before a match, the rest of your team would quit the server PDQ
Oh wow, I loved that mode too!
Sorry I dont quite understand the joke
Can someone explain ?
@@exxelsetijadi5348 For awhile, not long after she was introduced, Sombra had the rotation of being useless and picking her was "throwing", so the rest of the team would either quit or harass you all round. Only later, as people adapted to her playstyle did she become meta and therefore acceptable.
Huh. This never happened to me.
I miss sombra with the timed relocators, she was a lot more strategical that way.
Portal 2 had pretty great multiplayer. It introduced unique puzzles with strategies and mechanics that were unique to that mode, and even hinted at different aspects of the Aperture story. Plus, those little robots were so cute and you could make them hug each other! ♥️
I always loved Perfect Dark's Counter-op mode.
One player is Joanna Dark, the other is a random grunt somewhere on the level. Agent Dark has to get her objectives, and the other player has to kill her. The grunt player is given a suicide pill so they can force a respawn if they don't like where/who they are.
It was lots of fun, especially since it was split-screen so there were always cries of "no peeking!"
Counter-op was incredible. Sucks ass that we never really saw it again. Though I did hear that it was a pain in the ass to design around.
@@arnox4554 I can imagine, my brother used to play it with me all the time and sometimes he would just commit suicide until there were no more enemies left.
Came to post this. Perfect Dark's multiplayer... hell, even their AI in the multiplayer... was leaps and bounds better than many other games, even to this day. Come back, sims!
I used to do this all the time with a friend. We did it so much, that we actually ended up doing a whole run where the 'hunter' was a traitor and just killed everything that wasn't Joanna. Didn't go well, but was a riot all the same.
"traditionally, murder is a solo endeavor. Once there is more than a couple of you it is a screen movie or possibly a dnd party"
I think we can remove the "possibly" from that sentence.
"Scream movie"
Hot Fuzz.
*scream movie
Shhh murder hobos will be murder hobos.
Also don’t ask about the dwarf martial arts school. I totally DIDN’T challenge all of them to a fight and win and then continued to beat them up.
also, just prop hunt; hide and seek while someone just trashed an entire map looking for the player who was a soda can. prey had a fun version of this with people playing as mimics
But prop hunt isn't dead, plenty of people still play that on Gmod, and I'm pretty sure CoD still has it as well.
Mp5k003 I haven’t played CoD in a long time, I had no idea they had prop hunt! I was just thinking about Prey and their prop hunt mode when I was typing this :\
@@colling83 Oh, prop hunt started with Garry's Mod and has been a fan fave amongst devs ever since. CoD4: Modern Warfare Remastered was the last cod to feature it I think, though I never played anything past Advanced Warfare, at least until MW came out.
Ghost De Razgriz I knew it started with Garrys mod but I didn’t know it had made it to console on anything other than Prey’s prop hunt! Thanks for letting me know bc i’m gonna need to check it out
@@colling83 It's pretty fun on COD4 Remastered but you'll find out pretty soon that you need to look up tutorials for "glitch" spots.
one of my favorite multiplayer moments was in the cat and mouse mode of assassins creed, i was having an amazing game silently assassinating my targets without giving myself away, blending in perfectly, and ending the game by walking with a flow of npcs, while my target was coming from the opposite direction toward me. My heart was beating out of my throat as we neared each other, idk if he knew who i was, but i knew which was him. it was a race to hit the assassinate button. the catharsis of having not only evaded everyone, but also killed them was unmatched. far better than just assassinating npcs in the story, who wait at ledges and bushes to be stabbed.
For the most tedious multiplayer modes I’d like to recommend (specifically) the split screen mode from shadow the hedgehog
or any multiplayer mode in Call of duty
If Andy writes that one it'll be Hitman Ghost mode 7 times
Ellen cries internally for AC Multiplayer.
RIP ACMP
2010-2013
"Generic multiplayer modes" list is my favourite video in this channel!
I wonder what the rest of the entries were lol
I gotta say, one of my favorite Multiplayer gamemodes was The Last of Us' multiplayer gamemode. Sure it was mainly a deathmatch, but it did some really cool things with it which made it unique.
Splinter cells Spy's V Merc's was my Jam back in the day still one of my favourite multiplayer modes.
ya. Spy's vs mercs was half the reason why i believed chaos theory was the best game in the entire series. idky but the later installments just didnt feel as... cool
@@MrOrdosan Chaos Theory was the last good "True" Splinter Cell game in my opinion. Then after that they made Sam Fisher a character he wasn't.
@@Gatorade69 ya. while I enjoyed some of the combat/gameplay changes. I kinda missed the whole sound/light meter. and then the story just kept going down hill. Specially considering that the "kill your friend" ending in double agent is apparently teh canon one.
When I finally got around to playing the game I wanted to play Spies versus Mercs and co-op but they were both already dead
"Look on the brightside: we haven't had a sequel to WW2 either." april 2020: ...
Dead Space 3's co-op mode was amazing. I played it with my friend and I'll never forget the moment she went, "wtf is up with all these creepy dolls???" only for me to go, "WHAT dolls???" We proceeded to have a monumental freak out as we realized what was happening. Good times.
"Zombie Apocalypse or kick-out time at the pubs." I've been in Dublin after 11PM this is the most brilliant and hilariously true observation I've ever read. Mike needs a medal!!!!
I remember i had a game on brotherhoods multi that everyone was after me and i killed my target then had to hard core par core for my life eventually i was able to get just enough time to sit on a bench next to a window after running from around a corner and i got to watch everyone par core out the window and me getting the 'you lost your follower' bonus for each player in the match lol.
Par core.. lmao
*cough, cough* i think you all may have forgotten the hit classic Watch_Dogs where you can play as a fixer and ruin someone else's story experience, also the multi person free for all that takes everyone out of the main story just to shoot and blow one another up
Watching Andy explain the uselessness of the spoiler list already made this video worth watching
Gravity Rush 2's multiplayer was by far the most unique & genuinely fascinating I've ever experienced, you didn't need PS+, people _generally_ were very kind about it, & the game feels hollow for its loss. There were a couple different aspects, the one most similar to other games was this post-game dungeon thing where you can find places where other players had died & loot their ghost (still getting Distress Calls but can't act on them), but the core of it were the Challenge Missions, Treasure Hunts, & Ghosts.
Ghosts, represented as shiny blue versions of Kat, were places where other players had used the camera feature in their game, they popped up pretty randomly & if you interacted with them you could see the picture they'd taken, some of which were pretty spectacular. Interactions brought in Dusty Tokens which unlocked various rewards, items, emotes, & infinite flight & you could see when someone interacted with your photo. It unfortunately never worked particularly well, so your best bet was to just take a bunch in areas where you'd load into the game. Made the mistake of taking like 20 pictures of Dusty when I unlocked all the cat bed options. I was getting notifications for those things for weeks, it's _most_ of my Notifications.
For Challenge Missions it's basically you vs the record of someone else in various contests, either in combat or several different types of races. You'd go up against variously colored ghosts of the other players, up to 3, & it made for a hectic, fun time. I actually learned quite a lot about movement from watching these ghosts. These ghosts would also appear in gold in the over-world so you could tell when a mission was waiting for you, they'd even go through the first few seconds of their motion. ie; if you jumped straight up as soon as it started, your ghost would jump in my game when I received the challenge.
Treasure Hunts were my favorite though, basically scavenger hunts with a photo taken by the other player, you'd get a photo of the chest & hopefully enough of the surroundings to be able to hunt it down with an indicator noise for when you're close.
Furniture for your house & emotes came from treasure chests. Unfortunately now that they've shut it down permanently & therefore this content is basically forever gone. You _can_ still find treasure chests scattered throughout the world but the indicator noise is entirely gone & they randomly spawn in & out of an absolutely absurdly huge map.
Near the end of things there were a few communities that worked together to allow other players to earn the tokens & treasure chests, basically you add as many people as possible as a PSN friend so you can send Challenges, go to the first Challenge Mission & score as low as possible so all they have to do is score a few points to win. Not all the Challenge Missions were like this, there was plenty of challenge to be had with ones that unlocked later in the story, but I only saw a handful of people actually send out high scores on that first one.
Treasure Hunts were a little harder, since it entirely depends on how good a picture people took for the hint & there were way more trolls in this part of things, had more than a few that were just the chest as close as possible to the camera, but generally people were kind. Some areas of the game didn't lend themselves to this mode though, woe to anyone who got Hunts in the slum area, a genuine nightmare scenario right there especially in the weeks right before the shut down.
Never actually answered a Distress Call, but I do still get them in my notifications with new Avatars next to the text & it's kind of depressing, I try to avoid looking at that section when I boot up the game.
one multiplayer mode i liked quite a bit was Evolve’s “Extinction” mode, which was like a mini campaign where you played all the modes the game had, and depending on the hunters or monster winning affected the next match. it was a really cool and enjoyable online mode, and it’s a shame more games didn’t do it
Looks quite long tough... I usually only play two hours at a time at most, usually less... I think this could be a reason for it not to happen
Caio Prado it was really long but getting into a good lobby made it fun! but it definitely would make sense why more games don’t do it
@@colling83 I have no doubt, it looks like a fun mode, but sadly, when playing in a lobby you probably can't have more than 20-30 min per game
@@cacs2201 ya. it was basically just 3 matches back to back.
i remember the mode. cuz hunters would get a def upgrade like station turrets. while monster would get things like a brood pack upgrade for pushing bases.
now if only they didnt advertise the game to the COD crowd and kill the game at launch.
Don't do evolve like that bruh 😭😭😭😭😭🤧🤧
I had a similar experience to the Dead Space 3 mode with Kane and Lynch. During 1 mission I was guarding the downstairs of a bank while my buddy was upstairs attacking the vault. We had a bunch of hostages, but cops would occasionally sneak in and I would snipe them. Eventually my friend yelled at me for killing the hostages. We had to look at each others screens to verify that one of us wasn't lying. Turns out I was surrounded by lots of NPCs instead of cops.
16:44 - Oh, Mike, you sweet summer child. Try looking up Richard Bong, Adrian Warburton, Pat Pattle, or Ilmari Juutilainen for starters...
Brotherhood's multiplayer was SO GOOD, and because of it, it remains my favorite AC to date. Everyone was also on an equal playing field, unlike CoD, CSGO, or PubG, etc... a LOT less toxicity too!
Commenter recommendation: "Giants: Citizen Kabuto." Up to five players play as Meccaryns (comedic British space marines with jetpacks), up to three play as Sea Reapers (mermaid wizards with swords), and one lucky sumbitch gets to play as a gigantic horned monster that eats everything.
Came to the comments looking for it! Great mode for the time
Oh yes, that was an amazing Multiplayer experience. I almost forgot about it😅
I'm so confused by all of that but at the same time so interested to see what that is
I'm glad someone else remembers a great game I unfortunately never got to play the multiplayer since I didn't even know it had one. Lol I was to into the story to check.
"Carver, you gonna get off the elevator?" Was the best one honestly in Dead Space 3
I like the co-op mode Fantastic 4 (the first one, not the sequel), it was awesome how every character had their unique characteristics, so the players needed to cooperate to solve any puzzles, instead of just one player doing the puzzles while the other is running in circles like a headless chicken...
Helios9826 I never played the one you’re talking about but I think the sequel rise of the silver surfer is underrated. I mean it’s nothing special but I loved how you could switch between any of the 4 characters at any time and it was a beat em up just like the X-men legends or marvel ultimate alliance games.
I cannot express in words just how strongly I miss the AC multiplayer mode... I still remember the hours that I sunk into Multiplayer across the different AC Titles... And I remember how sad I was when I saw the online community dwindling as I tried to play AC3 Multiplayer.... I have a small sliver of hope every time I hear about a new AC game, just praying that they will bring the multiplayer mode back.... :'(
The last Of Us had a fantastic multiplayer mode with hints of stealth, crafting, and teamwork. I truly miss that multiplayer experience
Last time I played it you could still find games. That was back in October. Lots of fun.
I still play, brilliant game
@@ToxicBastard Down for a game ? Add me on PS network, my name is Beepums
on ps4 you can still find games really quickly (don't know about the ps3 version tho)
Ps3 version is dead, they took down the servers. I really liked this multiplayer too.
Last Of Us Factions. My favorite multiplayer. It's not just a multiplayer copy of the single player game, it adds so many abilities and weapons. It's customizable and you can try out so many different loadout so you can be a healer, support, stealth, assault/dps class. And there is a lot of strategy and there's nothing like being the last person standing. It gets the heart pumping and gives such a rush.
Factions is one of the best and unique MP modes out there.
missing Kane and Lynch's fragile alliance game mode. team of crooks with the objective to steal money and escape from the cops, only at any point people can betray one another for a bigger share of the money at the loss of your allies over the course of several rounds. a fun game of how far can you trust your allies that is just crying to be added into a Battle Royale game mode.
Well remembered. That was a really cool concept.
The Cycle is a BR with a similar mechanic. If you're playing solo you can form a contract with an opponent, making each of you more vulnerable, and splitting any resources acquired. Either player can cancel this at any time and immediately go back to being solo rivals.
I liked Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City's multiplayer mode, but I also had a group of friends that would play it with me. It was unique enough that it stands out in my mind.
Now then, the best multiplayer mode is engaging in jolly cooperation.
Perfect Dark had a nice Co-op version of the campaign, but then also had a *counter* operative mode, where the second player would play random enemies throughout the standard single player campaign. It was interesting.
Jane deadpaning, pun intended, "He'll tire himself out eventually" was hilarious. :)
I only ever played one game that had a "multi player mode": Journey.
It was quite interesting as you only ever had one companion at a time but if you lost sight of that companion, another player that was playing in the same level and was near you could/would be loaded in to be your new companion. And you could hardly tell until the end when the game listed your companions throughout your journey. There also was no real communication between two players that were somewhat co op partners/companions.
One of my favorites is Affordable Space Adventures for the WiiU(stop judging, it was a decent system). In it you pilot a POJ space pod exploring a planet while all of your ships functions from flight and engine control constantly breakdown. Fun in of itself going solo, you could assign up to two others to aid in controls of various parts of the ship to solve problems. It was very unique gameplay. Many things could only solved with communication and flawless-simultaneous co-operation. Lots of family fun. And by fun, I mean yelling.
League of legends. This game ACTUALLY expected 5 strangers on the internet to work together. What kind of utopian fantasy world are they living in?
Milsim roleplay servers managed to get dozens, even hondreds of strangers on the internet to work together!
You just have to not be afraid of kicking out the undesireables.
@@thegrayowl1557 Or install the WH40k mod, and wait to be inundated with an entire regiments worth of people screaming "Blood for the Blood God!"/"For the Emprah!"/"WAAAAAAAAAAAGH" (delete as appropriate). Rimmys crew, the XXth Cadian, is especially degenerate, having recently dabbled with narcotics and -anime camwhores- online sex workers SIMULTANEOUSLY
@@talltroll7092 I fucking love Rimmy! He's the reason I gave them a try!
"Get over it"
Andy: "Never"
I'm in this video and I don't like it
I feel one of the coolest things about AC Brotherhood's multiplayer mode was that it did Social Stealth better than the story mode.
Social Stealth in Singleplayer wasn't actually social stealth but line of sight based stealth with a paintjob instead blending into a system where detection is based on deviations from the system. You could replace crowds and benches with bushes and the result would be the same.
In contrast, Multiplayer required you to actually watch your surroundings and act like the environment you're in to succeed rather than running around, hiding on a bench for a few seconds. Even your tools helped not by physically hiding you but by making others act in an "unacceptable" way by running around or huddling around for coins
Mario Kart: Double Dash! Loved playing gunner while my friend drove...
They really need to bring that back, in the next Mario Kart, even if it's just one of the other modes.
damn Ubisoft always had the coolest and most unique multiplayer ideas.
they really need to bring back those instead of the garbage looter shooters they made recently
I miss MGO from Metal Gear Solid 4. ; w ; best of times. best of times.
I’m upset you guys didn’t include the Link Tree from Pokemon Black & White. What’s more inventive than letting you roam around your friend’s world, visiting landmarks, leaving gifts, and SPIRITING AWAY THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF ONE OF THEIR CITIES
Last of us omg the best multiplayer ever. Talk about a hidden gem hidden under a mountain of other gems, that is the story. Broke my heart when naughty dog said they wouldn't include MP in Last of us 2😢
It was soooo satisfying scavenging all the ingredients to make a bomb and then getting a multikill with it.
what was it like?
@Angel Cruz I think Naughty Dog said that they might release a stand-alone mp based on TLOU2
Thank you I was looking for this comment
If only they could've given it proper balance. 2LP full auto rifle that is objecively worse than the 0LP 9mm pistol, perks like Brawler 2 and Bomb Expert 3 giving you free unavoidable kills, the fucking flamethrower being broken strong at launch then broken weak after 1 patch and never touched again, easy 1 shot kills with the Burst Rifle, maps like Water Tower and Bill's Town having inescapable spawn traps... the core of a great experience was there, but Goddamn did Naughty Dog drop the ball on its balance.
(6:00) Well, one solution is that; if someone runs and stabs people, the crowd runs away in fear, giving you a chance to run away or run into the stabber. There could also be soldiers who can try to arrest or kill the player who aren't using stealth kills.
I really missed Aliens vs. Predator™ from 2010 with the possibility to play Marines, Predators and Xenomorphs with the different approches to the game like mobility and weaponry
Star Ocean 3 - a JRPG, mind you - had a one-on-one versus mode where each player picked from any of the recruitable characters with a set skill list, and the players would proceed to beat each other up until somebody won. I never had the opportunity to actually play it with anyone, but it was definitely a unique way for a JRPG to try to insert some kind of multiplayer mode.
That Driver SanFran multi must have been crazy woth all that car jumping! If it was still alive that would be a perfect stream/video material for OX ... we need more crazy multiplayers modes people!!
13:10 or you know, replace everyone with all the different Robins. There should be enough.
Just call it 'Crisis Mode' and make the sky red. There's your canon reason a bunch of Batmen would be hunting each other.
Uncharted 3 had a fun 2v2 mode. The teams took turns being the heroes, trying to bring treasures back to their chests, while the other team were villains trying to stop them. The villains were weaker than the heroes, but were backed up by a few AI grunts. And if you did manage to kill a hero, you were awarded medels, which you could upgrade your villains weapons and armor with.
17:00 Same Mike, same.
Command & Conquer Renegade has one of the best multiplayer modes I've ever played. It was a first/third person shooter where the teams were generally about 10-20 players each, but it varied depending on the server. I've seen teams of 64 vs 64 at times.
Each team had a base with different buildings that provided a function to your team. You'd have an infantry class upgrading building, a vehicle production building, resource gathering building, automated base defenses, power plant, etc. The objective of the game was to destroy the enemy's base while protecting your own. Once a building was destroyed, it was gone for good and the team lost the functionality of that building. So, destroy an enemy power plant and all their automated defenses would shut down. Or destroy a vehicle production facility and they would no longer be able to produce vehicles, etc.
The game was a whole load of fun and worked well as a real team-based game where you'd perform coordinated assaults on the enemy's base, but it also allowed sneaky infiltration if you felt more like going lone wolf.
Does renting pawns in Dragon’s Dogma count as “non-traditional multiplayer?”
Ah, yes pawns. Or as I knew them: Red shirts.
@@PlebNC also known as lord of the rings dress up competition
Only if you call Super Mario Maker a multiplayer game as well, or putting mods in Skyrim. Personally, I wouldn't as you aren't directly involved in gameplay with another player. It's just playing with someone else's toy.
Or, as Yahtzee dubbed it, "pimping the mentally subnormal"
Lucas Arts old school Outlaws had a pretty good multiplayer - "Kill the fool with the chicken"...everyone against one person, who got points for staying alive, but the chicken always made noise, letting everyone else know where you were.
Driver San Francisco was the best game in the series. Incredibly deep, incredibly underrated, and incredibly difficult to get your hands on now without the assistance of some strong Voodoo magic.
The best? Pfft.. Go home dude, you're drunk..
God, the Arkham Origins multiplayer was fun as hell. I distinctly recall getting the "clutch" achievement by killing Robin while a very southern guy yelled "GET 'IM BROTHER!" over mic.
left for dead's mode that let you kill your friends as an infected?
some of the most chaotic and traitorous gameplay out there
Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising. 64 player military shooter goodness. Massive maps ( A bit too big actually) and an element way ahead of it's time. You could actually walk or drive on to vehicles! Cue everyone piling on to a transport helicopter only to find someone on the other team had planted explosives on it....
0:26 Andy’s Spoiler Scroll Rant in T-Minus 5...
Noone tell Andy the “batman royale” existed during season X of fortnite...
Also it's basically what Apex Royale is
The thing you forgot to mention about Batman Arkham Origins was the other game mode where there wasn’t any respawns so you became absolutely terrified of any noise you heard as failing to spot batman before he got close meant instant death.
Isn't the new multiplayer mode in the resident evil 3 remake an upgraded version of zombie U's
It sounds similar but different. There was a mod called Zombie Master back in the Source days that was similar, a bunch of survivors had to scavenge car parts to escape while the "Zombie Master" played the game top down like an RTS and could spawn hordes and tell them where to attack. First "game" I saw with that kind of gameplay.
I loved Evolve's 1v4 multiplayer, where one player would be the monster that evolved over three stages as it fed on wildlife while four other players would be the monster hunters. The first stage for the monster was quite weak, the second stage an on-par with the hunters and the final stage giving the monster one up over the hunters. Hunters also had different classes (Assault/Medic/Support/Trapper).
A personal favorite hidden gem of multiplayer modes for me is Light vs. Dark in Kid Icarus Uprising. Sure, it's more or less a team death match, but the more powerful your weapon, the more points your team lost. When it reached 0, the person who died became Pit or Dark Pit depending on the team. If they died, you lose. Defeating players while they have Pit or Dark Pit out reduced the HP of Pit/Dark Pit, but could not KO them.
After reading so many comments I've come to the only logical conclusion: that I'm one of the two gamers in the world that played Call of Juarez: The Cartel in the coop-mode.
It was amazing, as you were one of three players who, while trying to complete the same objective, all had their separate personal objectives to fulfill while none of the other players should catch you complete it.
Brotherhoods multiplayer was incredible.
You could play it stealthily and win the game with something like 3/4 kills.
I remember watching an absolute clusterfuck going off down the street. I was incognito, so about 6 people all piled in a massacre of killing their targets. Then mine came sprinting down the street towards me aaaand jooked with my hidden blade, straight to the top of the score board.
Then you’d have multiple hunters after you the higher on the board you were, and that’s when you had to just get your parkour on and Houdini people like mad, QUICK! run round the corner and decor as another NPC! Then stun your attackers when they go for the wrong one.
It was amazing.
The Timesplitters series deserves a mention just because the built in (even on console) map editor let you create assault maps. Basically team based story maps where one side had objectives and the other had to stop them completing them. You could make your own asynchronous multiplayer games before that was even a thing!
I made a map where one team had to attach mines to a remote control cat to blow up a switch to let themselves through. Sadly this was before online gaming was really a thing, so only me and my brother ever played it. :(
A good addition would be the multiplayer for Geist for gamecube. It was a traditional deathmatch mode, except rather than picking up new weapons, you possess new soldiers with different weapons equipped (including a hidden woman in a towel, who you could only find by possessing a bat and flying on top of the cave. She did one hit kills with her towel 😂)
Gosh I miss brotherhood. I really loved the multiplayer mode was a lot of fun. Another great multiplayer that was amazing from the PS3 era was Metal Gear Solid 4 -MGO2 that was super fun and amazing.
Fun fact: The driver game referenced is one of the few examples of gaming in the second person. Everyone knows first and third person perspective for its majority of the market...but theres a mission where you're in a chase car but controller inputs control the car your following while mirroring your inputs
TimeSplitters (particularly 3, on the PS2 etc.) had some wacky game modes, including monkey assistant (a deathmatch where the person in last would be given a legion of shotgun toting monkeys to fight for them), and shrink (where you shrank over time until you became too small and were eliminated, and had to kill other players to gain size, but where being small gave you a tactical advantage in being harder to hit and made you move faster, with no effects on your damage or durability).
Heyo! How is your day
Pretty good, what about yours?
It’s pretty good.
I had tea and scones
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A neat runner up for this list is Geist's "Ghost Versus Host" mode, where one team played as ghosts and had to possess their enemies and lead them into traps, where the others had anti-possession grenades and bullets to free their allies.
Metal Gear Solid 4 also had a mode very similar to the Batman one in this video! (As well as a handful of other interesting modes, including a stealth battle royale.)
Natural Selection 2 Each side has a commander that plays the game like a RTS, complete with a top down view of the map, where they can place buildings, and research upgrades. Meanwhile, all the other players played it like a FPS, acting like units in the game.
In addition, the two teams were unique. The Frontiersmen were the typical space marines with the guns and tech. The other team consisted of aliens that relied on melee attacks, but could climb on walls or fly, among other abilities.
Also, there's A Way Out, where the multiplayer relied on both players working together. What set it apart was that the game never stopped. If one player was in a cutscene, the other one could still wander around.
Assassins creed multiplayer was great fun. My fondest memory is when I fully owned a kid who started shouting "which one is you?" As I used decoys and a couple of decoys walked off, I walked off, turned around and knocked him out.
Just gonna say it: The Uncharted series had a weirdly fun Multiplayer mode that tackled not just shooting enemy players, but also climbing to different vantage points to get a leg up on them.
You didn't mention the follow-up reason as to why the Dead Space 3 co-op was so good, and that's that the premise transferred to the actual gameplay.
During the co-op missions, Carver would frequently get stuck in a hallucination, all with its own enemies (which could kill you, Dead Space hallucinations are like that), while Isaac would just "stay behind" in reality, fighting the real enemies, all the while you see Carver's character having basically a seizure, and you need to protect him. Now you might think this takes away from the "co-op", and you'd probably be right, but it was a great experience.
The reason for that is that once you started the co-op mission, there was no way to tell when and how the hallucinations would start. This would mean the Carver player would get progressively more stressed and would panic big time once stuck in the hallucination (because they're sudden, dangerous, you're alone in them, and they vary in "objectives" you need to do to get out of them), while the Isaac player suddenly realizes they have to to protect their teammate, also alone, but they have the benefit of knowing the layout, objective and most of the enemies that will appear, making them naturally more calm in the situation.
What this resulted in (if you were on voice-chat at least) was that the Carver player is stressed and panicking and has no idea what's happening, while the Isaac player is trying to snap his friend out of it so they can focus because if they won't they're both gonna die. Which is exactly what the cutscenes tell too. They managed to perfectly replicate the story elements with the gameplay. And that made it incredibly fun and atmospheric.
The first Contagion's multiplayer was quite interesting. At first glance the game seems like a spiritual successor/homage to Resident Evil Outbreak, where a group of survivors make their way cooperatively through a series of somewhat randomized levels, helping each other out by sharing ammo, healing items, and watching each other's backs. However, being a zombie game, there must be infection, and, when the option was enabled being attacked by a zombie had a chance of infecting a player with the zombie virus. As you succumb to the infection, your movements become slower, your audio starts to dim, and your screen loses color, until at last you become one of the infected. Now you have a choice: you can turn on your erstwhile teammates, summoning NPC zombies to you and mobbing them or blending into hordes until you can sink your teeth into their unsuspecting backs or, like a true hero, you can use your zombie calls to draw zombies *away* from the human survivors, helping them to escape even though you won't be able to join them. Further, if you joined a server after all the playable humans had already been selected, you'll begin the round as a zombie, where the same rules apply, except now you have no incentive to help the group of strangers you've not previously been surviving alongside.
I really want a new and improved version of Assassin's Creed multiplayer. It was like a big game of Where's Waldo, but you're all Waldo, and Waldo wants you to die.
I miss that game.
There was a Starsky and Hutch game that had support for both steering wheels and light guns. One player would drive the car and the other would shoot at targets. It was incredibly fun. It was also possible to play co op by yourself, driving one handed while shooting with your other. Too bad there aren't any light gun console games any more, it's a genre I really miss.
I like the multiplayer for Super Mario Galaxy where player one plays the game normally and Player Two is basically just playing an arcade shooter
Actually, Mike, my loyalty to this channel extends that far. Yes, I would watch the "7 generic multiplayer modes too tedious this world" list. I would also watch you watching paint dry and delivering commentary on the process. That's how loyal I am. Or bored. But really, that's how our relationship works: you make it, I watch it and click the like button to ward off evil demons and show you I appreciate your work. Now, can I have the tedious list, please? Thank you!
I loved the AC multiplayer. Probably one of my most favorite game modes ever! I literally bought AC: Brotherhood and whatever the sequel was to play the multiplayer only! If only it came back and was a bit more fleshed out, I think it could be it's own standalone game.
i played as Carver in Dead Space 3, and enjoyed the different hallucinations, especialy on side missions where Carver sees giant gift boxes and toy solders. My brother honestly thought i was messing with him.
Oh God, Mike went Homer Simpson with that multitasking quip
"And they say I'm slow...WAIT A MINUTE THAT WAS AN INSULT!!!"
The Assassin's Creed multiplayer got even better when they added coop multiplayer matches where a team of four could go after AI targets for points and xp.
Best part was the variety of characters, that all had different backgrounds and customizations. Barber from Brotherhood will be my all time favorite.
Nick Robinson's YT channel is almost entirely devoted to his obsession with the genius of Driver San Francisco (how it's shift mechanic was brilliant, fun and intuitive; and how the game was taken off the market for no apparent reason, despite it being very good. His theory is the licensed cars' deals ran out, among other things). He even made a video about how it's essentially the only game to feature a segment in the "2nd Person Perspective". As we know, 1st person is you look through your character's eyes, 3rd person is basically you are the camera controlling your character remotely from various viewpoints, but what would 2nd person look/feel like?! Watch the video, it's already got millions of views, but it's truly excellent so I figured I'd plug it since Mike kind of dumped on the game a little. I thought it was superb, and a huge surprise (as a fan of the PS1 Driver games, pre-GTA 3).
Damn I really miss the multiplayer from AC Brotherhood. It really is the most fun i’ve ever had with a multiplayer mode. So damn underrated! Hope they include it in their future games.
The best part of the DS3 Co-op is that there is a full section where Isaak has to protect Carver because he's stuck in a hallucination.