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Left 4 Dead by Dave Cook | 20-11-08

Xbox 360 | PC

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Co-op is fast becoming a staple of many multiplayer-enabled console titles these days. The notion of playing together as a team towards a common objective is the new black, as opposed to simply fragging the hell out of each other for kicks and gamerpoints (you know who you are). However, very few developers can stand up and honestly say their game was built with co-op in mind. Some games pull it off incredibly well, while others offer a co-op mode that feels tacked on and more like an after-thought than a core feature.

Xbox 360

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Gears of War 2 by Josh Wilson | 14-11-08

Xbox 360

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Duke Nukem 3D XBLA by Dave Cook | 01-10-08

Originally released in 1996, first-person-shooter Duke Nukem 3D is no stranger to controversy. It's a brutal, completely daft and over-the-top fragfest and that is exactly why it has become such a cult classic.

Xbox 360 | PS3 | PC

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Unreal Tournament III by Graeme Strachan | 22-07-08

It's an interesting irony that although there are plenty of games based on real sports, few were invented solely in the world of gaming. The one which arguably does buck that trend is Unreal Tournament. Having burst onto the scene in 1999 as a spin-off from the original Unreal, it quickly took over as the far better game. Basing itself around a grand championship of gun-toting althletes and aliens, competing to see who was the biggest badass in the galaxy; it took the existing multiplayer modes into its own and made them brilliant.

Xbox 360 | PS3 | PC

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Battlefield: Bad Company by Josh Wilson | 15-07-08

Welcome to Bad Company. The specialist branch of the US Military, for... specialists. Blown up the wrong building? Hacked computers and accidentally caused a system meltdown? Then to Bad Company you go. Which actually, is no bad thing.