Fraser Brown: Psi-Ops - The Mindgate Conspiracy I never stopped feeling a little annoyed at the "forced" multiplayer, but long after my Galactic Readiness was maxed out, I was still playing. (But also incredibly lucrative, so as Michael Ironside once said, everyone fights, no one quits.) The shooting was aces (say what you will about Mass Effect 3, but it had the combat side of the game nailed), the integrated missions, small levels, and collective rewards ensured that players actually worked together, and at the higher difficulty levels the extractions could be incredibly hairy.
Mass Effect's different classes and races were supported, so players could take it on in whatever style struck their fancy. The different Firebase maps were big and varied enough to be interesting and tactical, but small and interconnected enough to be manageable, even for newcomers. After surviving ten waves, teams would have to move to an extraction zone and hold out until retrieval. Strictly co-op, it put four players up against increasingly difficult waves of enemies from various Mass Effect factions, with special objectives popping up here and there throughout. And I'm glad I did, because it was a blast. But I was also determined to crank my Galactic Readiness to the max, so in I went.
I don't begrudge people playing online however they want, but I'm all about the singleplayer and had zero interest in sharing my intergalactic adventures with the great unwashed. I was really unhappy when I learned that Mass Effect 3 would have a semi-mandatory multiplayer mode. The whole thing was framed as a prequel for the first BioShock, grounded in an idea that had taken hold in Team Fortress 2 and many games that followed: yes, you can and should put story into a multiplayer FPS.
The multiplayer lobby itself was a Rapture apartment, and your character would receive new, unique messages on their answering machine. BioShock 2 characters' appearance was tied to their progression-as they leveled up, they'd look more and more like a mutated Splicer, a reflection of their abuse of ADAM. Each had their own backstory, melee weapon, and loads of custom, situation-specific dialogue that you'd hear during matches (Mlle Blanche de Glace, a French actress, might say "So strange on this side of the camera," when using the Research Camera to earn a damage buff against an enemy). You played as one of 10 unique characters living in Rapture at the outset of the civil war. "The winning team is decided by who has the greater number of Little Sisters captured." Ah, the pastime of playing football with mutant drug children.īioShock 2 fully embraced the awkwardness of turning its intricate story and setting into a deathmatch. "The goal is to bring the Little Sister to the designated Little Sister Vent as many times as possible before the time limit runs out, and then to prevent the enemy team from doing the same," the BioShock wiki reminds us. Publishers wanted to protect against people selling their Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 copies back to GameStop after completing the campaign. Voila, BioShock 2: Capture the Sister. Coming out in 2010, BioShock 2 found itself in the middle of a strange era where every singleplayer game, no matter how literary, had to have a multiplayer mode.
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