With enough practice, your battles evolve to have more thrill and intricacy than you’d think possible with 8-bit graphics - you can catch your enemy’s arrows from the air, or even steal them right out of their quiver if you can get close enough. It sports a great co-op campaign mode, but for us, the fun was always in the competitive deathmatches, in which up to four players compete in a bow and arrow battle royale. Towerfall is a retro-looking indie game designed specifically for local multiplayer. This is truer of Towerfall: Ascension than any other title I can recall - a game which, over the two year period it reigned over my student house, wreaked havoc on our housemate relations. One hallmark of a great local-multiplayer game is its ability to take a group of people who very much like each other and reduce them to red-faced children, bitter in defeat and undignified in victory. Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch The races are always incredibly fun, made twice as enjoyable by the fact you can mess with your opponents using a variety of Mario Kart-esque power-ups such as rockets, grappling hooks and freeze-rays.Ĭouple this with the nail-biting sudden death mode, which sees the last two remaining players of every round race remaining inside an increasingly-small screen, and you have a local multiplayer experience that’s packed with memorable moments. The difference is that instead of bikers, SpeedRunners sees you play as superheroes who swing and slide across a variety of cityscape obstacle courses. SpeedRunners is, in essence, the same concept as Trials: players race against each other, attempting to gain a lead big enough to force your opponents off of the screen. The dirtbike-based gameplay is delightfully intuitive, and the way the scoring system is set up - players lose points if they lag behind enough to fall offscreen - leads to plenty of intensely competitive moments. The base game offers a decent selection of multiplayer tracks for you to play, but thanks to Trials’ support of user-generated content, there is a vast library of fan-made tracks to keep things fresh. Trials: Fusion is a platform racing game which supports up to four players locally, and, like all of the games on this list, uses same-screen multiplayer - so there’s no need to worry about those annoyingly small split-screen windows.
In no particular order, here are five of the best: This doesn’t mean the feature is dead dominating the competition online is all very well and good, but nothing quite beats seeing the look of hopelessness on your friend’s face in real-time as you get your 7th win in a row on FIFA.Īfter three years in student accommodation, and more time playing video games with my housemates than I’d care to mention, I’ve acquired a pretty good library of local multiplayer games.
Sadly, including a split-screen or same-screen mode simply isn’t as worthwhile to developers as it used to be - why bother with letting multiple people enjoy a copy of your game when online multiplayer ensures many will buy their own? Ever since online multiplayer developed to become a staple of big-budget games, local multiplayer has become somewhat of a rarity.
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