10 Intense Video Game Multiplayer Modes You Won't Survive

8. Frontlines - Verdun

A few years ago, you had two World War 1-themed multiplayer games - Verdun and Battlefield 1 - that, on paper, didn't seem all that dissimilar. Both embraced the unreliable weaponry of the era, both boasted 64 players in matches duking it out, and both included game modes that focused on the war of attrition the real-life conflict was defined by.

However, where the two games diverged was its approach to combat. Battlefield 1 championed all-out-war, where a single soldier could storm an objective, take out six enemies with precision headshots and then destroy an incoming tank without breaking a sweat. Verdun, on the other hand, would have killed you for even dreaming about doing the same thing in its multiplayer.

Here, trench warfare was king, and the wide-open spaces of no man's land made for insta-death zones if you moved at the wrong time. Attempting to replicate the brutality of the war, a single headshot can take you out, while you'll often find yourself being shot at by enemy players far away, hidden in the shrubbery.

Jumping in a match with little to no information telling you what to do, one thing is made clear: You will die. A Lot.