10 Video Games With Utterly Pointless Multiplayer Modes You Ignored
8. Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption was essentially Grand Theft Auto as a western. Set in 1911 it sees John Marston forced to become a bounty hunter by the government in exchange for his familys safety. The game took the basic elements that made Rockstars more famous open world title so popular but added new mechanics, such as a morality system that affects how it plays along with a gunslinger element that let you slow down time and target multiple enemies at once. While the single player combined a thrilling story with a vast world to explore the multiplayer just couldnt match it. Modes included your bog standard free-for-all and team based deathmatches, as well as a select few objective based ones., but nothing that made it stand out. In fact the gameplay in the online component was all rather dull, with players much preferring to play the campaign rather than online. This is a problem inherent in all open world games, gamers who buy these types of games dont want to be confined to a small portion of a map or carry out a very specific objective. They want to be free to go where they please and do whatever they want. When playing with other players the matches inevitably tend to be too spread out to be interesting, with far less action than other multiplayer games. Grand Theft Auto IV had a similar problem that meant that most people only ever ventured into the single player, and the same applied to Red Dead Redemption. Without anything innovative or special to do online it was largely ignored in favour of its offline counterpart.
