In the one-player Story Mode, you take control of one of the three bouncers and engage in a cross between an RPG and an old beat-em-up from the days of yore - think Double Dragon or Streets of Rage, only with experience points and much better graphics.
Thankfully, the power button on the remote puts the player in a standby mode so it will play nicely in a remote location via IR extenders.
The gameplay unfolds both with a traditional overhead map and in a story mode told with shadow-puppets in which the player must make choices about what has already happened.
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The new player will be in complete learning mode, and the best thing you can do is make the experience as comfortable as possible.
In co-op mode, each player takes their character of choice, and plays through the whole campaign as either Kirk or Spock.
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You'll need a surround sound system and an SACD player to hear it in this multi-channel mode.
As Lazaridis demoed myriad features from HDMI presentation mode to the built-in music player on the company's hotly debated tablet, it hit me: the one question I've been pondering since getting a real look at the device.
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The notion of an easier mode for some players in a game so tightly built around a multi-player experience that was supposed to be, at its core, very challenging rubbed many people the wrong way, and with good reason.
Modders have already enabled single-player mode for the game (or, rather, disabled always-online.) In fact, it appears that the game could run in a very similar fashion with a very similar vision while offline in single-player.
Players could build up a business in a kind of "tycoon" mode, Brathwaite says, before competing to grab control of another player's business.
Indeed it was, and now with the inclusion of the mode in the next God of War, it just might be the last bastion of single player games that has fallen to the lure of online play.
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Play in solo mode with touch on a mobile phone or tablet, or use the Atlas controllers for a 2-player experience on the big screen.
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