The Internet has contributed a lot to video games, it has broken national borders to play with gamers all over the world. It has allowed us to make things such as tournaments or clans so you don't have to play alone or stick with your boring friends.
Let's start with the PC. the PC was one of the first platforms to include online gaming. With FPS all over the place like Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament and many other cool games that were awesome to play in multiplayer. MMORPGs were also great. Games like World of Warcraft or Ragnarok Online were addictive as any drug, but with one big difference, they were legal. The fact that you could play multiplayer with people from places that never been not even in your wildest dreams was simply amazing.
The Playstation 2, Xbox and Gamecube Included online gaming too. They were just like PC using multiplayer as the main use of the Internet. The Gamecube really blowed with Online Gaming, It had a few games that you could play online, and somehow it didn't appealed to many gamecube owners. However, the PS2 and the Xbox did a great job, incluiding a hell lot of games that incleded online play.
After the big consoles enjoyed online play, hand-helds needed some of it too. That when the DS and the PSP came out. the DS has only a few Wi-Fi games, and the lack of good First person shooters blows hard, but there great games that you could play Wi-Fi, theonly problem was that if you didn't had a wireless router or a Wi-Fi USB connector you had to hang out at McDonald's, which isn't really cool. There were great multiplayer games out there like mario kart and metroid prime hunters, but Tony Hawk's American Sk8land offered something new, you could download boards and graffitis in the website that you could use in the game, it was something new for a hand-held, as well as Animal Crossing, which allowed you to visit a friend's farm using friend codes. Ttheothhe PSP did pretty much the same thing using wi-fi connection, and you could even surf the web with it. The PSP was great because unlike the DS, it offered a great variety of First person shooters, as well as sports.
The Next Gen consoles did a Magnificent job with online game. The wii, Xbox 360, and the PS3 offered something new, not only multiplayer but you could download stuff, like demos or games, like in the Xbox or Wii, which included old-school games to download. You could even download new songs for guitar hero. Multiplayer was getting even better like in the upcoming Need for Speed ProStreet, which allows you to upload you best ghost, so your friends can download it and try to beat it.
What else are Next Gen Consoles do with Online Gaming?We have to wait to see what can the next gen consoles can do with the Internet. who knows how might the next generation will be? How Online gaming be?We will have to sit down and wait.
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