Much like Dead Space 2, BioShock 2’s multiplayer mode seems completely unnecessary and removed from the elements that made the original BioShock so interesting. However, I never touched the multiplayer until putting together this feature. I’m a big fan of the Dead Space series, and this sequel is my favorite of the trilogy. I earned every achievement, save for its hardest one. I played through Dead Space 2 multiple times upon release. I went in with a goal to find out if anybody is still playing them and to try to get a sense of any communities that have come to embrace these modes.įor all of these games, I played the Xbox 360 versions.įor my personal gaming sensibilities, BioShock 2 and Dead Space 2 mark the epitome of an unnecessary competitive multiplayer mode. I reexamined some games released over the past few years which seemed to benefit the least from added multiplayer modes. People must be playing these modes, though, because developers keep making them.
Games part of this wave of server shutdowns are also still available to purchase owing to their breadth of single-player content.A continuing trend exists in the world of video game development where online multiplayer has practically become a required bullet-point for every game – even in titles that are clearly designed and balanced around a single-player experience.
Features like leaderboards or multiplayer game modes, however, will no longer be available.
It is worth noting that, since the games part of these shutdowns are primarily single-player titles, they will still be perfectly playable for most players. The online service shutdown page on EA’s website states that the decision was made to shut down these servers because less than 1% of peak online players across all EA titles were playing these games, and that it was no longer feasible for the company to continue supporting these games. While most of these games didn’t feature much in the way of multiplayer, Crysis 3 is a notable title in this list since it features several multiplayer game modes. Publisher EA has shut down the servers for some of its older titles, including Dead Space 2, Crysis 3, Dante’s Inferno, and Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, as caught by Pure Xbox.
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