multiplayer video games are games in which more than one person can play at the same time. Players may compete against one or more human contestants, work cooperatively with a human partner to achieve a common goal, or supervise other players’ activity. First-person shooters have become popular multiplayer games; Battlefield 1942 and Counter-Strike have little single-player gameplay.
About Multiplayer in brief
multiplayer video games are games in which more than one person can play at the same time. Multiplayer games usually require players to share the resources of a single game system or use networking technology to play together over a greater distance. Players may compete against one or more human contestants, work cooperatively with a human partner to achieve a common goal, or supervise other players’ activity. The first examples of multiplayer real-time games were developed on the PLATO system about 1973. Some of the earliest video games were two-player games, including early sports games, early shooter games such as Spacewar! and early racing video games like Astro Race. Some online games are massively-multiplayer with many players participating simultaneously. First-person shooters have become popular multiplayer games; Battlefield 1942 and Counter-Strike have little single-player gameplay. The largest MMOG is South Korea’s Lineage MOG, with 19million registered players.
Networked multiplayer LAN games eliminate common Internet problems such as lag and anonymity, and are the focus of LAN games. Play-by-email multiplayer games use email to communicate between computers. Other turn-based multiplayer variations are not requiring players to be online simultaneously and are not required to be playing simultaneously. Some networked multiplayer games, such as RuneScape, omit a single player mode, including massively multiplayer online games like Rune.UDs and massively online games as Rune.Scape. The games had broader consoles to allow for four sets of controls, allowing for four simultaneous players to play in the same game environment at thesame time. In such games, play is alternated at some point. All players’ scores are often displayed onscreen so players can see their relative standing.
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