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Vidya Games with Multi-player vs Other Player
Skoal Cat
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I know I've read about some games like this, but I can't think of a single one. I'm looking for a game whose multiplayer pits a group of players against another player in a different role. Either the team of players wins or the lone player wins.
Similar to the GC version of Pac Man World 2 where you could be a ghost if you hooked up your GBA and someone got to be Pac Mac. Ideally you can suggest a game where this was more the main design, not some esoteric version that only three people played twice each.
Similar to the GC version of Pac Man World 2 where you could be a ghost if you hooked up your GBA and someone got to be Pac Mac. Ideally you can suggest a game where this was more the main design, not some esoteric version that only three people played twice each.
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The most Aliens vs. Predator game had a game mode where there's one alien and multiple marines. As the Alien kills marines, the killed players become Aliens, until there are no marines left.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giants:_Citizen_Kabuto
One person plays a gigantic Godzilla-like monster. Up to three other people play the Sea Reapers (magic race), and five other people play the Meccaryns (technology race). It's probably one of the strangest asymmetric multiplayer games out there. I enjoyed it when it came out a decade ago.
Oh, Metal Gear Solid Online had a mode where two people play Solid Snake and the tiny Metal Gear, and the rest were divided among two teams who were pitted against each other. The Solid Snake player had a different win condition than the other two teams.
I'll try to think of others.
EDIT: Many of the mini-games in the various Mario Party games pit one person against the three other contestants, with the win condition of the team being different than the win condition of the one.
For games in which this is the original design, I'd go back to the original Ogre board game by Steve Jackson. It was first published in 1977. It's not a video game (although video games have been made of it), but the asymmetric balance (1 honkin' huge tank versus a team of smaller vehicles) is the central feature of the gameplay.
This might be easier if you stated the reasons behind the questions that you are asking. Is it the game design in general, or simply historical examples? Is this for a project or just curiosity? Are you looking for one game in particular? Is this just to win an argument? Etc. More background would be nice.
A Source mod with one team of SWAT dudes with guns... and the last player is The Hidden, a stealthed melee bastard that has seen Predator a few times too many.
Great fun. Especially when you're The Hidden, kill someone and then drag their corpse off and hang it from the ceiling where the survivors will spot it.
I'm helping design an interactive experience and while I believe in my concept, it does fall to me to convince some nay sayers that team vs individual can be balanced and enjoyable for all parties. I'm going to look at all of the games listed so far (and maybe more, wheeee!) for some straight up compare and contrast for game play and balance.