If Prince of Persia Multiplayer is Developed

Multiplayer games are the most interesting and most attractive gameplay viz. There are a lot of multiplayer games developed in the past. Notable ones are Age of Empires, Wolfenstein, Call of Duty, Half-life, Need For Speed. There are many more I have not included here and may be more popular to these. Apart from those I have listen above from past, there are story lines like Harry Potter, Transformers, X-Men which can be made into very good multiplayer games. The games Harry Potter and Transformers are made in to multiplayer as said. But are they worth playing multi-player?

The games like Prince of Persia are greatly admired for single player. The games like this are so nicely design and written that, it just looks like a real life in action. And the task is so clean and nice, just move on. And thinking of a multiplayer design is not so "Aaaaah?" kind of thing.

So lets think of it,
The easier and non-convincing game can be like this,

The different characters would be focusing on a multi-task scenario. Each character is assigned some task and the result will be shared between the characters. In this design, a character is assigned definite tasks. The other characters are assigned some other tasks too. But the key point here is that they cannot exchange or share each others tasks. They only share the result.

But there is much better game design, where the story line is completely different,

The characters have some tasks to do in a scenario. These tasks are not assigned, they are shared. So here, not just the result is shared, but also the tasks are shared. It becomes a complete, real-time strategy game. The strategy is like World of Warcraft, where you try to reach the enemy in different paths. This is so because, both the enemies and allies are human players, not the computer or bots. Its a responsibility of the enemies to restrict the prince and his allies by covering all the paths towards the destination of the prince. And it is the task of the prince to reach his destination. You can use diversion strategies, combined attack strategies, and all kinds of strategies you can get in to your mind.

The game looks very similar to Counter Strike Capture the Flag Mod, but the biggest difference is that the characters fight between themselves with a Swords and Bows.

The latest game in the Prince of Persia series, POP2008 has two characters, they had a very nice chance to make the game multiplayer, that would have been really nice. But never mind, a nicely designed game is always awaited and good to develop one for the developers and good to game for the gamers.