10 Lost Mechanics That Need To Return

Contemporary games could do with some of these mechanics being brought back.

Posted By | On 18th, Sep. 2019

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Simulants – Perfect Dark

Perfect Dark was coming off of the already incredible multiplayer experience of GoldenEye 007 but Rare took it to a whole other level. There are six Scenarios and 16 maps. Up to four players could participate but you could also have up to eight Simulants or AI bots in a match. These Simulants have their own difficulty settings, ranging from MeatSim the easiest to the PerfectSim and DarkSim.

They also had “personalities” like FeudSims that would constantly pursue the same enemy over and over; PeaceSims that would hoard all the guns in a level to keep players from shooting each other; and so on. On top of highly customizing Sims and being able to issue orders to them, you also had 30 different challenges that required specific objectives to complete. Such in-depth bot customization and personality is missing in a number of FPS games with offline multiplayer.


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