15 Best Multiplayer Maps In Gaming History Ranked

Sometimes a game's greatest asset is its multiplayer. People love the experience of sharing a game so much, thousands have taken to streaming exclusively single player titles, just so they can involve others in the experience.

But whether in the virtual world or reality, everyone needs the right environment to play in; something built to enable the most fun parts of the game. After all, nobody is going to try to play rugby on a basketball court.

What specifically makes a good multiplayer map is a tough thing to pin down. Symmetry oftentimes helps things out in team deathmatches, while free-for-all's require maps that have more depth so players have better hiding spaces.

Sometimes a wide open map can enable all types of fun chaos, but a more tightly compacted locale will keep the knuckles white when all it takes is a burst of machine gun fire to trigger a respawn.

This list aims to look at all maps across gaming. Nothing is off the table. Big or small, simple or detailed, no matter the genre, the best of the best deserve mention in this ranking. Every one of these places has a special place in the hearts of gamers, whether they grew up playing with friends on a couch or across the globe online.

Uncharted changed cover-based third-person shooters forever by adding something so rudimentary that many designers wondered how they couldn't have been the one to think of it, platforming.

Giving their maps a vertical element made Naughty Dog's Uncharted 3: Darke's Deception, one the premiere shooter of the Playstation 3's era. Airstrip is one of the maps that emphasizes all of Uncharted's best qualities, making players jump from truck to truck, evading shots from other riders, trying to make it into one gigantic plane before it takes off. The action is frenetic and dynamic, with each jump putting the player right into the face of danger.

After the plane takes off, it brings the action to a static cargo station where the rest of match takes place. From there, scores will be settled as players hop across shipping containers and take cover in warehouses. The map also carried some valuable treasures, game changing super weapons, and a turret that was both of strategic importance to both teams and a power-trip to be behind.

Multi-stage multiplayer maps haven't been done often outside of this game, making Uncharted 3 a bold product of its time. To this day though, it stands as one of the PS3's best exclusives, helping the console rally back to prominence after having one of the worst launches in video game history.