I played so much multiplayer in AvP 1999 and AvP 2, they were a staple on LANs me and my friends held. What other types of games like this are out there? Also, both sides have a commander who practically plays an RTS game, managing resources, issuing orders, and researching tech.īoard games have started exploring the idea behind asymmetrical games (a good example being Android: Netrunner).

The aliens are a bit squishier, but they're (on average) faster and deadly up close. While both teams are playing an FPS game, the alien and human factions are wildly different. Natural Selection 2 is a first person shooter with two teams fighting each other. While the players are all in the same game, both teams are playing a totally different way. Another team were agile operatives in 3rd person view, who could climb up rafters and stealthily take out the defenders.

Splinter Cell had a multiplayer mode where one team were security guards in a first person view, had guns with flashlights, and were tasked with defending positions. One of the things that really fascinates me are games that force different players, or different teams of players, to play different games when they compete with each other. Everyone has a gun and has to kill each other, or everyone has a base and has to destroy the other base. In most multiplayer games, everyone is playing the same type of game.

Spyparty is an asymmetric multiplayer