Lucy Bradshaw, head of SimCity creator Maxis, said an offline, single-player mode did not fit with its "vision" for the urban-planning game.
Often, the lack of any possible single-player mode was a deal breaker.
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The updated edition of the 24-year-old metropolis-building franchise released last Tuesday requires players to be online even if they're constructing virtual cities in the single-player mode.
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.
Offers 2-player split screen with Atlas controllers, or single player with touch mode.
Players like myself who blazed through the single player first without touching the online mode actually could find themselves with a different (and worse) ending, all because of a multiplayer mode that had nothing to do with the central story.
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Also controversial was the suggestion that there would be a multiplayer mode, and that this multiplayer would have an impact on the single-player story which had so far defined Mass Effect.
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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.
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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The demo will also provide access to the cooperative multiplayer mode, which has been the source of considerable anxiety by devotees of the traditional BioWare single-player experience, but not until February 17.
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