But, the MMO components of the game seem bolted on to a solid, compelling single-player game.
He also fiddled with other values to almost convert it to an offline, single-player game.
The multiplayer was fun enough, but did not hugely impact on the single-player game.
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The game, which launched today on Kickstarter, is not quite an MMORPG and not quite a single-player game.
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If multiplayer doesn't stand out as much as it might, blame the enemy AI in the single-player game.
If you want a single player game, go play a single player game.
SimCity has almost been turned into a single-player game by an enterprising hacker.
Entrepreneurship, which is extremely difficult to teach in traditional classroom style, might be more effectively absorbed in multi-player game format.
It hurts performance, locks people out of their own single-player game during maintenance, and serves no purpose that benefits consumers whatsoever.
Unlike the single-player game, a mobile mothership, variations in maps, game types, starting forces and rules only make the game more intense.
How did Angry Birds go viral despite being a single player game?
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At its worst, multiplayer can actually detract from the single player game.
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The game is a constructed system, a machine, and if it is a single-player game, it will be enjoyed, completed, and discarded.
The game can be played in two modes, either a tournament style single player game or a grudge match where two players can get involved.
It was the first time in as long as I can remember that I sat down and finished an entire single player game in one day.
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Second, remember that when they decide to shut down a server for an always-on-DRM game, even if it's really just a single player game, it is legally unplayable.
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The single-player game should better showcase this, one suspects.
But some new owners are steaming about connectivity issues that made it impossible for them to try out their purchase, and wondering why a single-player game needs to go online in the first place.
Immortal Heroes can be played as a standalone 2-player game, as an appropriate addon to the Storm of Souls set, or simply added a la carte to an Ascension deck as a playgroup pleases.
It is possible that, if it were easy to play the game offline, fewer fraudulent purchases would be being attempted simply because those who wished to play without paying would content themselves with the single-player game and cracked copies.
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One effect of those online capabilities is that the thrill of competing against other live players gives gamers many more hours of entertainment than they get from a traditional single-player game, which can often be completed in 14 to 20 hours.
The game, called Space Race Blast Off is a pretty straightforward, multi-player trivia game.
In a multiplayer game, one player hosts the game and everyone else connects to that host to join in the play.
This really takes the element of story driven content to a new level for a Massively Multi-player Online Game.
His chances of gaining the upper hand are slim, but with a new player the game will certainly become more lively.
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For a player whose game centers so much around speed, it could be a rapid decline once he loses a step.
The exhibit takes the form of a multi-player computer game in which visitors are invited to explore a particular subject, such as the possibility of male pregnancy.
Released in 1999 by Black Isle Studios , Planescape: Torment was a single-player video game that, since its debut, has been lauded as a classic of story-led gaming.
WoW's trajectory from its roots as a single player computer game, Warcraft, in 1994 to its continued domination of the online multiplayer game market since its launch in 2004 illustrates how gamers often develop deeply rooted ties with the games they love to play.
Apple noted that it is the most popular video game player with 175K games available and 150M players in their Game Center (not bad for a music device).
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