Best Of 2016: Top 10 Multiplayer Games Of 2016

Tired of breezing through single player campaigns? Looking for a stiff challenge or simply a good time with friends? Here are the Top 10 Best Multiplayer Games Of 2016.

1. Overwatch

   Platform: PC, PS4, XBONE
   
   Soldiers. Scientists. Adventurers. Oddities.
   In a time of global crisis, an international task force of heroes banded together to restore peace to a war-torn world: OVERWATCH.
   Overwatch ended the crisis, and helped maintain peace in the decades that followed, inspiring an era of exploration, innovation, and discovery. But, after many years, Overwatch’s influence waned, and it was eventually disbanded.
   Now, conflict is rising across the world again, and the call has gone out to heroes old and new. Are you with us?

2. Rocket League

   Platform: PC, PS4, XBONE
   
   Soccer meets driving once again in the long-awaited, physics-based sequel to the beloved arena classic, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars!
   A futuristic Sports-Action game, Rocket League, equips players with booster-rigged vehicles that can be crashed into balls for incredible goals or epic saves across multiple, highly-detailed arenas. Using an advanced physics system to simulate realistic interactions, Rocket League relies on mass and momentum to give players a complete sense of intuitive control in this unbelievable, high-octane re-imagining of association football.

3. Grand Theft Auto Online

   Platform: PC, PS4, XBONE
   
   When a young street hustler, a retired bank robber and a terrifying psychopath find themselves entangled with some of the most frightening and deranged elements of the criminal underworld, the U.S. government and the entertainment industry, they must pull off a series of dangerous heists to survive in a ruthless city in which they can trust nobody, least of all each other.

4. Rainbow Six Siege

   Platform: PC, PS4, XBONE
   
   Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is the upcoming installment of the acclaimed first-person shooter franchise developed by the renowned Ubisoft Montreal studio.
   Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege invites players to master the art of destruction. Intense close quarters confrontations, high lethality, tactics, team play, and explosive action are at the center of the experience. The gameplay sets a new bar for intense firefights and expert strategy in the rich legacy of past Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six games.

5. Unreal Tournament

   Platform: PC
   
   Unreal Tournament is a first-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games. It is the ninth installment in the Unreal franchise, and the first main entry in the series since Unreal Tournament 3 (2007). The game utilizes Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 and will be released for free on Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux.
   Unreal Tournament‘s development is crowdsourced and open to contribution from anyone. Epic Games has been using forums for discussions and Twitch livestreams for regular updates. The source code of the game is published on GitHub and available for everyone.

6. Astroneer

   Platform: PC
   
   Explore and reshape distant worlds! Astroneer is set during a 25th century gold rush where players must explore the frontiers of outer space, risking their lives in harsh environments for the chance of striking it rich.
   On this adventure, a player’s most useful tool is their ability to shape their world, altering the terrain and extracting valuable resources from planets, and moons. Resources can be traded or crafted into new tools, vehicles, and modules to create everything from massive industrial bases to mobile rover bases.

7. Dead By Daylight

   Platform: PC
   
   Dead by Daylight is a multiplayer (4vs1) horror game where one player takes on the role of the savage Killer, and the other four players play as Survivors, trying to escape the Killer and avoid being caught, tortured and killed.
   Survivors play in third-person and have the advantage of better situational awareness. The Killer plays in first-person and is more focused on their prey.
   The Survivors’ goal in each encounter is to escape the Killing Ground without getting caught by the Killer – something that sounds easier than it is, especially when the environment changes every time you play.

8. DOTA 2

   Platform: PC, Mac
   
   Dota is a competitive game of action and strategy, played both professionally and casually by millions of passionate fans worldwide. Players pick from a pool of over a hundred heroes, forming two teams of five players. Radiant heroes then battle their Dire counterparts to control a gorgeous fantasy landscape, waging campaigns of cunning, stealth, and outright warfare.

9. Counter Strike: Global Offensive

   Platform: PC, Mac
   
   Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) will expand upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched 14 years ago.
   CS: GO features new maps, characters, and weapons and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust, etc.). In addition, CS: GO will introduce new gameplay modes, matchmaking, leader boards, and more.

10. Overcooked

    Platform: PS4, PC, XBONE
    
    Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff. Sharpen your knives and dust off your chef’s whites, there isn’t mushroom for error and the steaks are high in these crazy kitchens!
    The Onion Kingdom is in danger and only the finest cooking can save it! In Overcooked players must journey through a variety of cruel and unusual kitchens on their quest to become master chefs capable of conquering an ancient edible evil which plagues the land.
    Play solo or engage in classic, chaotic couch co-op for up to four players in both co-operative and competitive challenge modes. You’ll have to cook a range of different dishes and work together in order to become the most effective and ultimate team! \

11. Titanfall 2

    Platform: PS4, PC, XBONE
    
    Call down your Titan and get ready for an exhilarating first-person shooter experience in Titanfall 2! The sequel introduces a new single player campaign that explores the bond between Pilot and Titan. Or blast your way through an even more innovative and intense multiplayer experience – featuring 6 new Titans, deadly new Pilot abilities, expanded customization, new maps, modes, and much more.

12. Battlefield 1

    Platform: PS4, PC, XBONE
    
    Battlefield 1 takes you back to The Great War, WW1, where new technology and worldwide conflict changed the face of warfare forever. Take part in every battle, control every massive vehicle, and execute every maneuver that turns an entire fight around. The whole world is at war – see what’s beyond the trenches.

13. Gears Of War 4

    Platform: PC, XBONE
    
    A new saga begins for one of the most acclaimed video game franchises in history. After narrowly escaping an attack on their village, JD Fenix and his friends, Kait and Del, must rescue the ones they love and discover the source of a monstrous new enemy.

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