The 5 Best Multiplayer Games of 2017

Sprinkling binoculars around the map or offering them as a starting item would help level the playing field somewhat. Binoculars would give scope-less players a chance to spot and avoid distant enemies, yet the value of rare 8x and 15x scopes for long-range sniping would rem

So why did For Honor never seem to gain much traction in 2017? It's tough to say—a lot of games got lost in the shuffle of what has to be one of the gaming industry's most illustrious years yet. Ubisoft has remained committed to providing new content for players, however, and anyone who missed For Honor the first time around would be remiss not to give it a look during the holiday sea

A lot was expected of Sony's PlayStation Classic. Following on from the success of Nintendo's own retro consoles, the prospect of a miniature PlayStation pre-loaded with the best games that the console had to offer was mouthwatering for some. After all, the original PlayStation had an amazing library of games, and as such this should have been like shooting fish in a barrel for S

Players running around the map can also experience downhill jogs turning into free falls. Though the player still appears to be touching the ground in these cases, the falling animation comes on and they slide down the hill until landing, and sometimes take serious dam

I'm at our new @PUBATTLEGROUNDS office in Madison today. The team is working on our desert map. Here's a WIP preview of this new location... pic.twitter.com/ReLbsvwv9A — PLAYERUNKNOWN (@PLAYERUNKNOWN) July 3,

The response to the success of Fortnite , however, has left many scratching their heads. Bluehole decided that the best course of action was to sue Epic Games over Fortnite , before promptly dropping the suit . It left the publisher as something to mock for many, both over its vicious reaction to a competitor and over the idea that PUBG could lay claim to the genre as a wh

For all of the disasters that 2018 has seen, none even come close to the failure that is Fallout 76 . Almost every aspect of Bethesda's multiplayer-focused Fallout game has been a catastrophe, not least the game itself. Fans of the series have been seriously let down with Fallout 76 , with the game including some ridiculous bugs and glitches and earning its position as the worst-reviewed Bethesda SLG Game Money Guide in over a dec

No list of the year's best multiplayer games would be complete without PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds . It's difficult to express just how successful the game, which started as an early access title on Steam and became a worldwide phenomenon overnight, has truly been, but we will try. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds set a new record for most concurrent Steam users earlier this year, surpassing industry staples like Dota 2 , while also forming the foundation of a new eSport and online streaming sensation, with the title frequently occupying one of the top spots of metrics tracking Twitch's viewership figu

However, when it came to existing properties and the monolith that is Steam, Valve had a bit of a more difficult year. Curation on Steam had become an elephant in the room, and Valve's decision to wash its hands of any regulation didn't go over well, particularly when this was followed up by the news that the company would then indefinitely delay all adult-themed video games on the platf

After the mod transitioned to ARMA 3 and took-off in earnest, Daybreak Game Company (formerly Sony Online Entertainment) took notice and started development of a battle royale mode for their then upcoming game "Just Survive" (formerly "H1Z1"). In relatively short order, the developer invited Greene to their studio to ask if they could use his mode in the game. Greene agreed and they wound up bringing him onboard the project as a consultant. Just Survive’s battle royale mode would come to be known as "H1Z1: King of the Kill" and helped popularize the fledgling game genre even further.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is incredible for the simple fact that it might be the best iteration of a survival multiplayer game the world has ever seen—balancing has been impeccable, strategies are numerous, and the difficulty of the game is just satisfying enough that many players have experienced a victory at least once while retaining enough of a challenge to keep them coming back to chase that post-victory high. The game is still a work in progress, too, so there's every reason to believe that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is on a skyward trajectory that might not have even reached its peak as of yet—scary thinking for competitors, but for fans of the game, a promising beginning to the new y

File this one under "could have been multiplayer game of the year just a few years ago." Ubisoft's For Honor takes multiplayer combat to the extreme, featuring one of the most nuanced and complicated battle systems in the genre, coupled with an eye for historical accuracy that rivals even the Assassin's Creed series. For Honor 's single-player campaign is worth mentioning as well, as it houses some of the best writing and level design in the multiplayer genre and should be a blueprint for those who come after it in 2