Top 5 Local Multiplayer games

I really love spending time playing video games locally with my family and friends in the same room, yes I'm talking about local multiplayer games.

It is one of our best gaming moments that brought us such a great games to play with addicting multiplayer modes that we never got so bored to play because it is fun to play with 2-4 players on the same TV and it has the greatest multiplayer matches for most of the game's genres such as shooters, sports, fighting and party games.
I know today's gaming had so much relying on online multiplayer where gamers playing against others through the online services, but still the local multiplayer does have a charm for us to gain our gaming experience to play games locally rather than just playing online.

I decided to make my favourite top 5 local multiplayer games that I really enjoyed playing with anyone.




5 - Rocket League

        



















Rocket League is a vehicular soccer games for PC, PS4 and XBONE, which both developed and published by Psyonix. It is a sequel to Psyonix's 2008 game called Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars for PS3 (via PS Store).

It was first released in 2015 for PS4 and PC, while it was later released the XBONE in 2016. It gained 18 millions players and sold 6 million sales after the releases is due to offering titles as free downloadable game for PS Plus members on release date to market the game and it had becoming most popular sport titles for modern gaming.

Rocket League is a fantastic arcade style sports game where you get to play as vehicular players to complete the match against their opponent, so it is a soccer game with vehicles that really got me attention to play because it features excellent gameplay controls where you can perform amazing trickstyle to learn and it has playable futuristic sports stadium with addictive game modes to play such as soccer mode which has a basic football net, hoops mode is where you have to bounce the ball into net, snowy day is where you play with hockey puck and rumble mode is where you can use with powerups and items during the match which is great for competitive multiplayer modes with 4-player splitscreen and online play.

The local multiplayer on this game is fun to play with 4-player offline, but you can also battle against the computer bots which is a great feature for both exhibition and season mode. This is definitely must play for the fans of the genres.



4 - WarioWare, Inc: Mega Party Games!

WarioWare, Inc: Mega Party Games! is a Minigame party game, which both developed and published by Nintendo for Nintendo Gamecube and it is a 2004 remake of  GBA 2003 game called WarioWare, Inc: Mega Microgames!

This game involves around the concept of bite-sized minigames which is known as microgames that lasts only few seconds. The game can only controlled with directional pad and single button, so a player must figure out what they are supposed to do, aided by a word or phrase that appears briefly, and clear the conditions within the time limit. The minigames has several of gameplay events such as shooting a certain numbers of targets, selecting a multiple choice answer, or simply surviving until the time has passed, so if the players made several of mistakes on each gameplay event then you will lose all of your lives which causing to end the game.

This game has the weirdest minigames to play with, but it is also one of the most enjoyable family game for the Nintendo system because it has many of wacky minigames events, funniest sense of humour and has multiple of multiplayer modes to enjoy that are very innovative and most entertaining game to play. I highly recommended to most of the casual audiences, who are into with family-friendly games genre, must play on the Gamecube.



3 - Saturn Bomberman

         

Saturn Bomberman is a action maze games by Hudson Soft for SEGA Saturn.

I really enjoyed playing this game because of amazing action-based maze gameplay and crazy multiplayer battles where they can blow up each other with tons of bombs.
What really made the game awesome is the multiplayer modes that supports up to 10-players on battle mode with 2 multi-taps adapter that made the game so much fun to play with 10 people in the same room.

The multiplayer modes has epic stages to select from and having up to 8 or 10 players is played on the widescreen arena, which shrinking the characters and blocks to tiny proportions and making the playing field very large is quite unique for the action maze style gameplay. It features excellent power-ups such as flame, bombs, speed, power glove and of course the best part of the game is each of dinosaurs can perform their special abilities such as ultrasonic waves, kick bombs, sprinting, roar and jump are the coolest things for the Bomberman series.  It's addicting, it's epic and it is definitely one of the best multiplayer game for the Saturn.



2 - Goldeneye 007

GoldenEye 007 is a FPS video game for Nintendo 64, which developed by Rare and published by Nintendo. It is based on the 1995 James Bond film called GoldenEye.

It was wide known for being a most important game in gaming history that defines the FPS genre as the game focuses on more realistic FPS style than the standard Doom-like approach. The game introduces single-player missions, newer gameplay mechanics such as ability to aim controls, stealth elements, and a console multiplayer deathmatch mode that made Goldeneye 007 successful in 1997 as being one of the best FPS game on N64 system and the third best-selling N64 game that sold over 8 million copies worldwide.

This multiplayer features several of playable characters from Bond universe, selectable weapons and playable stages to choose from, and it allows up to 2-4 player to complete against each other through 5 types of split-screen deathmatch modes such as normal which is a basic deathmatch can be played as free for all or working in teams, You Only Live Twice is where the players has only 2 lives left to survive, Licence to Kill is where the players can die by one hit with any weapons, The Man With the Golden Gun is where the golden gun, which is capable of killing opponents with only one shot, can be picked by one of the player and The Living Daylights is a flag-tag match where the flag is placed in the fixed location on the map and the player who holds it longer wins the match.

The gameplay on the multiplayer mode plays really well because it has fantastic map levels design, amazing weapons to use and excellent matches which are perfect for 4-players battle and it is by far one of my favourite multiplayer modes for FPS gaming.



1 - Super Smash Bros Brawl

         

















Super Smash Bros Brawl is a 2D Crossover Fighting Games for Nintendo Wii, which both developed and published by Nintendo and it is a sequel to one of the best-selling Nintendo Gamecube title called Super Smash Bros Melee.

I really love the smash series where you get to play as your favourite Nintendo roster from different franchise and it made me mind blowing to see how Nintendo developers made such a creative idea of making outstanding fighting game on the Nintendo system because I really love the previous Smash Bros games, but the Brawl is by far one of my favourite fighting game of all times.

It features playable roster such as Mario, Link, Samus, Yoshi, Pikachu, Fox, and of course the third-party characters that made me surprise like Sonic the Hedgehog and Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) made a first debut for smash bros series. It has selectable stages from different franchise such as Super Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, F-Zero, Metroid and more.
It has excellent multiplayer mode to play such as brawl mode is a basic match where the player have to knock the opponent out of the screen, stamina mode is where player have to beat opponent until the health percentage goes zero, giant mode that turns players into giant-size., tiny mode that turns player into tiny-sized and sudden death mode is where players can get instant hit causing to fly off the screen.
It has simple gameplay controls, especially using with Nintendo Gamecube controller, which makes easier to learn fighting styles and featuring nice varieties of using weapons and items during the match. The players can able to collect smash ball which allows to perform instant finishing moves which is quite awesome and the each of fighting stages has so many of the crazy stuff like getting knocked over by vehicles from Mario Kart stage, touching lava pit from Metroid stage, changing level dimensions from Fire Emblem stage and some weird stuff from WarioWare stage which is quite clever.

Super Smash Bros Brawl is definitely one of my all time favourite local multiplayer games that everyone should able to enjoy their fighting game experience.



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