10 Most Unique Multiplayer Games Of All Time

When Ubisoft announced that they would be adding competitive multiplayer to the Splinter Cell series, many wondered what route they would go. Would it be a traditional deathmatch style game? Would it be a stealth-based objective mode?

The answer to those questions is yes. Chaos Theory’s incredible Spies vs. Mercs multiplayer mode has two players take control of mercenaries who play the game in first-person while defending objective points and two players take control of spies who play the game in third-person and must capture the objective points. 

While the mercenaries are better equipped than the spies, their first-person view means that spies can take advantage of their blind sides to sneak around them. Or, even better, sneak up directly behind them and take them out while using the game’s chat function to whisper a few insults into their ear before doing so.

These very distinct ways of play made this mode much more complicated than the average multiplayer experience, but the depth of the experience for those willing to learn it has few rivals in all of gaming.