Top 5 Best Rare Halloween Multiplayer Treats
Next only to Pants Day, Halloween is our favorite nondenominational holiday – when else could we leave the house dressed as Banjo or Uncle Tusk and have the neighbors consider it par for the course? Trust us, we’ve tried and had to fight for our right to wear tight yellow shorts carrying a barbarian broadsword any other time. That said, we hardly advocate spending Halloween alone and if you can stand to peer out from your squalid hovel you’re sure to find a whole world bustling with festive party-goers. Grab as many as you can and invite them back inside for some appropriately Halloween-themed multiplayer games, Rare style! These are the Top 5 Best Rare Halloween Multiplayer Treats!
#5. GREGG HAS A BONE TO PICK IN THIS DEATH MATCH – CONKERS BAD FUR DAY (N64)
The multiplayer in Conker Bad Fur Day is still lauded as one of the best presented on the Nintendo 64, though its innovative survival horror mode was hidden just behind a few choice cheats (and some embellishment) that had the dead rising from their graves to face off against the grimmest Reaper next to Fandango. After a quick visit to the Fire Imp, players could unlock Gregg and a legion of zombified squirrels to keep four players quite occupied. Entering the Temple in “Death Match” mode would provide either side with comically large bones that they could brandish around the unsettling area in predictable fashion. Can Gregg and his cloakless doppleganger keep the dead down once and for all, or will the zombies defy afterlife conventions a second time? All we know is that this mode is equal parts festive and wicked fun – give it a try.
#4. COME FOR THE PIZZA, STAY FOR THE BRAINS – KINECT SPORTS: SEASON TWO (XBOX 360)
With Kinect Sports Rivals dishing out some serious Shocktober challenges this month, you might be so preoccupied with your team that you just don’t have time to revisit the second iteration of Kinect Sports. You fool! Clear your schedule and spend some time in the cemetery with Darts V.S. Zombies, and once you’ve gained an unfair edge on the competition, extend an invitation to three more friends. You’ll each get a chance to take on the zombies with your own board, taking on wave after wave of undead pizza lovers, striving to set a high score and come out on top. Keep your aim steady and your reflexes ready – if the zombies devour your pizza you’ll be forced to join them in an improvised, yet entirely choreographed dance number in front of your peers. That’s enough to keep them from the crust for at least three months alone!
#3. NON-SEQUITUR HORROR LEAVES FLOYD THRILLED TO BITS – JET FORCE GEMINI (N64)
After King Jeff‘s spell goes terribly arwy, the once thriving Planet Tawfret is transformed into a sullen swampland, buffeted by constant rainfall and inhabited by a throng of newly-zombified drones. This strange new world can be explored solo if you’re made of stronger stuff, and don’t harbor any sort of prejudice or resentment against the previously deceased. Though if you’re anything like us (see: cowards) the small resilient robot Floyd can be given to a second player in Co-operative mode, if you’ve managed to find all of his pieces scattered on Tawfret, of course. With unlimited ammunition at your side, Floyd hovers above the action, piloting through the thick fog in a sprawling cemetery, expansive underground crypt and presumably-haunted-albeit-rather-fortified castle that all guarantee more than a few jumps each.
#2. DOOM AND GLOOM FOR TWO – DONKEY KONG COUNTRY 2: DIDDY’S KONG QUEST (SNES)
While the dreaded “Stop & Go Station” stage from the original Donkey Kong Country title has been known to disturb us with Deuteranopia-themed nightmares, Donkey Kong Country 2 refused to let us drift back to sleep, with an entire world dedicated to fear-binging. Taking on the Gloomy Gulch solo is strictly inadvisable, with a two-player team option for those willing to face their fears together, and a two-player contest mode for those that only know of the dark times. Together you’ll brave a gnarled forest with ghostly wisps fading in the distance, ride a coaster through a library whilst being pursued by a stalking skeleton and finally come through the fog with an arachnophobic twist. If anything you’ll leave Gloomy Gulch with a stronger friendship – or you’ll just keep screaming. Most people just keep screaming.
#1. FROM GARDENING TO GRAVEDIGGING – VIVA PIÑATA: TROUBLE IN PARADISE (XBOX 360)
If you can’t get any friends together, try a shower, and then venture online with Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise and team up with another avid gardener to build your own graveyard garden! Tombstones, tinkered Jack-O-Lanterns and even wrought-iron gates can find their way into your shared space, with Langston‘s challenges providing more eerie garden amenities, like a spectral locomotive, lavish coffins and even Flagstones of Fear! Fill their garden with your own Sherbats, Arocknids, Crowlas and Vulchurros to make their gravesite complete, or pay a visit to Miss Petula’s Paper Pets and dress your Piñata‘s up in the finest Rare wares that chocolate coins can afford. If you’re feeling peckish, you can always descend upon your pampered residents with a shovel and get some guilt-ridden Halloween candy in return!
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