![]() ![]() The difference is that instead of bikers, SpeedRunners sees you play as superheroes who swing and slide across a variety of cityscape obstacle courses. SpeedRunners is, in essence, the same concept as Trials: players race against each other, attempting to gain a lead big enough to force your opponents off of the screen. The dirtbike-based gameplay is delightfully intuitive, and the way the scoring system is set up - players lose points if they lag behind enough to fall offscreen - leads to plenty of intensely competitive moments. ![]() The base game offers a decent selection of multiplayer tracks for you to play, but thanks to Trials’ support of user-generated content, there is a vast library of fan-made tracks to keep things fresh. Trials: Fusion is a platform racing game which supports up to four players locally, and, like all of the games on this list, uses same-screen multiplayer - so there’s no need to worry about those annoyingly small split-screen windows. In no particular order, here are five of the best: This doesn’t mean the feature is dead dominating the competition online is all very well and good, but nothing quite beats seeing the look of hopelessness on your friend’s face in real-time as you get your 7th win in a row on FIFA.Īfter three years in student accommodation, and more time playing video games with my housemates than I’d care to mention, I’ve acquired a pretty good library of local multiplayer games. Sadly, including a split-screen or same-screen mode simply isn’t as worthwhile to developers as it used to be - why bother with letting multiple people enjoy a copy of your game when online multiplayer ensures many will buy their own? It has been re-added to the post body.Ever since online multiplayer developed to become a staple of big-budget games, local multiplayer has become somewhat of a rarity. Update: A sentence from an earlier draft of this story that further clarified Nichiporchik's reasons for piracy was accidentally omitted. SpeedRunners is on Steam Early Access right now, so if you'd like, you can put your money down now, later, or, should you choose the free version, never. The free version will only support local multiplayer and offline bots. In the case of SpeedRunners, that service is online multiplayer. ![]() Nichiporchik wrote that he's pirating the game to see if it runs on his computer, and if it does, he'll "happily" buy the game off Origin. In the case of Battlefield 4, the service is multiplayer. Nichiporchik wrote that he believes players will spend money - sometimes eagerly so - as long as they see value in a service being provided. The free version of SpeedRunners that Tiny Build plans to launch won't be the full game, mind you. Don't buy into developers blaming piracy for lost sales, it's just silly." We got dozens of e-mails from people who found it via TPB and bought it afterwards, sending really positive comments about how funny the joke was. "During the pre-Steam release of No Time To Explain, we simply created a version with pirate hats and put it on The Pirate Bay. Nichiporchik explained that the decision to release a version of SpeedRunners for free was due to the pirating community's reaction to their last game. In fact, it's because of piracy that Tiny Build Games will be publishing a version of SpeedRunners, a multiplayer-focused game developed by DoubleDutch Games where you play as a superhero racing other heroes to the scene of a crime, for free. That may seem a strange way to introduce a discussion about piracy - and it is - but Nichiporchik wanted to make a point: piracy, he argues, is not a black-and-white issue. "I am pirating Battlefield 4 right now," an email from Tiny Build Games' Alex Nichiporchik began. ![]()
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