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.
SimCity has almost been turned into a single-player game by an enterprising hacker.
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.
The game is a constructed system, a machine, and if it is a single-player game, it will be enjoyed, completed, and discarded.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Each new release of an always-online game built around a single-player experience is a good reminder of the latter.
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He said for its single-player campaign, the game will feature multiple plotlines and nonlinear gameplay in which a player's actions affect how the story unfolds.
For the title's single-player campaign, the game makers at Swedish developer DICE took a cue from the popular multiplayer mode of 2011's "Battlefield 3, " focusing more on open environments, allowing players tactical freedom and giving them more ways to command squad mates.
Even in the single-player campaign portion of the game, co-op will be an option.
For years now, Blizzard has been playing with how to allow the minutiae of a real-time-strategy game to translate into a true single-player narrative.
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Of course, vast amounts of single-player content in a bad game is no good thing, so it is a relief that Injustice is a fun fighting game with a good balance between diving in and learning the deeper complexities of the systems.
This would add an entirely new level of challenge to both the single and multi-player components of the game.
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Beyond the unique multiplayer, the dozens of star systems, and the single-player Squadron 42 campaign, the game is going to be perhaps the most incredible graphical achievement so far on the PC.
Part of the problem is the open-world-plus-dungeons concept that weakens not only MMO game design, but also many single-player RPGs.
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But when a game is a single-player, narrative-based affair, inevitably that appeal can wane.
The Swedish developer isn't talking about the game's new multiplayer options, but it offered a live demo of the game's single-player campaign on a movie theater screen.
The game was initially designed as a single-player and multi-player experience.
Halo lives and breathes by its multiplayer, and 343 has wisely decided to incorporate a little bit of the single-player lore into the concepts behind the other half of the game.
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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Lucy Bradshaw, head of SimCity creator Maxis, said an offline, single-player mode did not fit with its "vision" for the urban-planning game.
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