We didn’t even have to wait for others to join. Upon booting up Dead Space 2’s multiplayer, I immediately got into a full game with a maxed-out lobby. The multiplayer has its story conceit, but it’s a tenuous one that serves as little more than an excuse to let players shoot each other in a BioShock environment.
The mode takes place before the events of the original BioShock, with players taking on the role of splicers testing out weapons and plasmids for plasmid manufacturer Sinclair Solutions during Rapture’s civil war. Much like Dead Space 2, BioShock 2’s multiplayer mode seems completely unnecessary and removed from the elements that made the original BioShock so interesting. However, I never touched the multiplayer until putting together this feature. I’m a big fan of the Dead Space series, and this sequel is my favorite of the trilogy. I earned every achievement, save for its hardest one. I played through Dead Space 2 multiple times upon release. I went in with a goal to find out if anybody is still playing them and to try to get a sense of any communities that have come to embrace these modes.įor all of these games, I played the Xbox 360 versions.įor my personal gaming sensibilities, BioShock 2 and Dead Space 2 mark the epitome of an unnecessary competitive multiplayer mode. I reexamined some games released over the past few years which seemed to benefit the least from added multiplayer modes.
People must be playing these modes, though, because developers keep making them. A continuing trend exists in the world of video game development where online multiplayer has practically become a required bullet-point for every game – even in titles that are clearly designed and balanced around a single-player experience.
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