5. All Your Friends Are Waiting Online To Kill You
Once you've blasted your way through the lazy single-player campaign in the latest Medal Of Duty: BattleHalo title, it's time to fire up that multiplayer mode. For many, that's where the heart of the game lies. No one is going to win an argument claiming that people buy a Modern Warfare of Battlefield title for the campaign. Tightly scripted action, nefarious Soviet or Middle Eastern mercenaries, and exploding barrels, that will keep us entertained for a while (long enough to unlock the achievements at least) but four or five hours later we want to turn up the heat. And that means we want to shoot real (digital) people in the face with assault rifles. Of course you can flick on your Xbox One or PS4 and get that new game spinning in the disc tray, but at this stage in the game you're unlikely to find many of your friends on the battlefield. Multiplayer gaming is a social event, by its very nature, and it's far more fun when playing with people you know - it maximises teamwork and minimises foreigners talking disrespectfully about your mother. So, with over 80 million users on either last-gen console, it makes sense that if you want to keep things social, that's still the place to hang out.
Game-obsessed since the moment I could twiddle both thumbs independently. Equally enthralled by all the genres of music that your parents warned you about.
