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Going Nowhere Fast: Single Player Gaming Since Half-Life
Posted by Philipp on: 2003-05-30 16:04:27 [ Print | Permalink ]

Sudhian Media has posted a new editorial: "Going Nowhere Fast: Single Player Gaming Since Half-Life"

"What has happened to the SPFPS? What am I talking about? Well FPS stands for First Person Shooter, and SP stands for Single Player. When FPS games first came out, the only thing that they could be is single player games. Multiplayer or Player vs. Player (PvP) style FPS games took a while to arrive. Wolfenstien 3D and other early FPS games had no hint of PvP at all, and this was great. Nobody had any problems with it because they had no idea of what multiplayer could be like. Once multiplayer was introduced into games, things started changing. LAN parties started popping up, the internet sprouted websites for clans and gaming organizations, duct tape was used in new and hilarious ways. Today, a company that dares to release a game with no multiplayer suffers criticism for their “incorrect” decision. "

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