10 Best Multiplayer Modes of All Time

2. Factions - The Last of Us

the last of us factions
Naughty Dog

Because it isn't enough that The Last of Us is one of the greatest video games of all time, its unforgettable single-player campaign is also accompanied by the brilliant Factions multiplayer suite.

What separates Factions from other similarly polished modes that repurpose single-player maps into online deathboxes is the focus on supply gathering to keep your side - Hunters or Fireflies - alive across a series of 12 matches (or "weeks").

Players who neglect to scavenge and focus only on killing will see their clan in dire straits before long, ensuring that Factions requires them to demonstrate a scrappy cunning in order to succeed.

Many were left frustrated, then, when Factions was conspicuously absent from Naughty Dog's 2022 remake, especially as The Last of Us Online - widely expected to be a big-budget, standalone follow-up to Factions - was cancelled late last year amid a strained development.

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