Last Man Standing

Shooters are the preferred type of multiplayer games, especially since modern ones are much more visceral and realistic. However, even earlier FPS games had a lot of fans, since one only needs to think about Quake and Unreal Tournament to remember just how big shooters were back in the day. Thankfully, modern technology made it even easier to create multiplayer experiences of all kinds.

Last Man Standing is a multiplayer game in which your goal is as simple as it says in the title: be the last player alive at the end of each round. In order to achieve this, you have to kill all the other players, but there aren’t any guns, and most of the other players are actually NPCs. Hence, it’s important to disguise yourself as well by moving slowly in order to avoid attracting attention.

The game is designed to be enjoyed through direction connection at the moment, which makes it difficult to meet other players unless you know their IP address. A server browser is going to be added in later versions, so it’s certainly going to get easier to share the experience with other people. On the other hand, it’s fun in this stage as well if you have a few friends to connect with.

Because there are no guns, your only weapons are your fists, and you have to use them wisely in order to avoid attracting attention. All the players look the same on the map, so the only way to notice something different is to observe everyone’s behavior. Granted, right now it’s pretty obvious when it comes to bots, but maybe the AI is going to be improved in the future.

As for the graphics, it’s worth mentioning that they are a bit too simple for this day and age, even if the whole point is to have fun. None of the player models have textures yet, but then again it’s a pretty early build anyway. The map is boring and empty as well, so we can only hope that the complete version is going to feature a lot more variety in this regard.

In the end, Last Man Standing is not a bad idea, but it’s very rough at the moment, especially when it comes to server options, gameplay and graphics. Thus, you should definitely keep an eye on the game and hope that the developers are going to keep working on it.