Online Multiplayer Gaming vs Single Player Gaming

 I have laid out the arguments for both single player and multiplayer gaming below. In my opinion I am pro single player. But don't let that sway your mind give your opinion in the comment section at the bottom.

Online Multiplayer Gaming Social Community – Online games allow you to play with people from across the world and socialise with people you wouldn’t normally meet. With single player games you are unable to communicate with others and are in fact drawn more into an unsocial environment. Allows People to be creative and share work - multiplayer games such as LittleBig Planet allow people to create their own levels and characters and share them with people across the world. Creates competition between gamers –due to the ability to connect with anyone in the world with an internet connection people can play each other at games and never meet again. This creates a competitive atmosphere in gaming which can be shown in to an extreme in my post ”Shut up you F#*!ing Noob”. However this can also be a good thing, stopping the game from becoming stale and boring.

Single Player Gaming Gives you an opportunity to learn throughout the game – with single player games the game is designed to build up your skill as you progress. Whereas in online games you are thrown in the deep end and are put up against more experienced players. Lets you experience an in depth storyline – modern single player games have such a complex and deep storyline that could match any film. Games such as Uncharted 3 have such complicated dialogue and characters and Heavy Rain with its tension are more like films than games. However multiplayer games do not have the ability to create such in depth plotlines and characters due to their shorter levels and large number of players.  Greater developed platforms – due to the size of the average level on a single player game the game player platform for these games  needs to be much larger and as a result the game play is a lot smoother than on multiplayer online games and is a lot less likely to crash.