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Asymmetrical multiplayer video games

  • Tomb Raider (2013 video game)In November 2010, Square Enix filed a trademark for a slogan, "A Survivor is Born," to promote a new Tomb Raider game. That game arrived in 2013 from the developer Crystal Dynamics, and it did not simply continue Lara Croft's story. It…
  • Star Wars Battlefront (2015 video game)Star Wars Battlefront cut its single-player campaign to make a Christmas 2015 release.
  • It Takes Two (video game)It Takes Two, a 2021 adventure from Hazelight Studios, is a video game that nobody can finish alone. It has no single-player option. Every player needs a partner, either sitting nearby or connected online, and the story simply will not…
  • Batman: Arkham OriginsBatman: Arkham Origins, a 2013 action-adventure game, begins on a snowy Christmas Eve in Gotham City with a price on one man's head: fifty million dollars. Eight professional killers are on their way to collect it. The man who posted the…
  • Dead by DaylightIn Dead by Daylight, four Survivors fix generators to escape one Killer who tries to hook them all.
  • Star Wars Battlefront II (2017 video game)A Hawaii lawmaker called Star Wars Battlefront II an online casino designed to trap little kids.
  • Resident Evil 6Resident Evil 6 was made by a development staff of more than 600 people, the largest team Capcom had ever put on a single production. The 2012 third-person shooter was a major installment in the Resident Evil series, and Capcom both…
  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six SiegeTom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is a Ubisoft shooter with no story campaign, and it still passed 70 million registered players by December 2020. Ubisoft Montreal built it around a single idea: two teams fighting over one building at a time.…
  • Super Mario GalaxySuper Mario Galaxy is a Nintendo platform game in which Mario runs around tiny worlds shaped like ice cream and apples. It appeared on the Wii, and the people building it were not all sure the idea would work. Some feared the technology…
  • Dying LightDying Light is a 2015 survival horror game from the Polish studio Techland, and it turns the usual zombie story into a question about what time it is. The setting is Harran, a fictional city in the Middle East, cut off from the world by a…

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