As India opted for this complete lockdown strategy during the last few months, all of us were falling short of things to do and were missing our old lives. It felt like life had changed drastically without any notice and we all just got locked up within the four walls. This was the time when online games rescued us and most of us don’t even have any idea of how much time we spent on these games during the whole lockdown period.
We began to play with our friends and in the process continued to stay in touch virtually and didn’t miss each other much. Certain online games not only became a stress-buster but also increased their market during this lockdown.
Let’s have a look at some of them
PUBG MOBILE
Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile (PUBG) is a multiplayer battle royale mobile game broadcasted by Tencent Games Incorporation with the Blue Hole Corporation. It has been lauded as the founder of the battle royale mode and is also reckoned to be the most credible one. In this game, you are virtually plopped into a huge map with a total of 99 other players from various nations and you need to locate weapons, armor, etc. Your goal is to end up as the last person who survived in the whole match. You may also play it across Xbox, Ps4, and pc, although there is no cross-platform play between mobile and consoles or pc.
LUDO KING
Ludo King is an Indian free-to-play mobile game application created by the Indian studio Gammation Technologies Pvt Ltd which is owned by Vikash Jaiswal. It was formulated on the Unity game engine and is available on Android, iOS, Kindle, and Windows phone platforms. The game is a better and advanced version of the board game, Ludo, which in turn is established on the historical Indian game known as Pachisi. Ludo King was initially released on February 20, 2016, on the Apple App Store, and is also rated No.1 in the Top Free Games Section. It is the first Indian gaming app to uphold a total of 100 million downloads.
COUNTER STRIKE
Counterstrike Global Offensive (CS:GO) is another multiplayer first-person shooter video game created by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment. It is the fourth game in the Counter-Strike series and was broadcasted for Windows, OS X, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 in August 2012. The game consists of two teams playing against each other and they are the Terrorists and the Counter-Terrorists. Both sides are assigned with abolishing the other and also complete different objectives among all of this. The terrorists, relying on the game mode, need to either plant the bomb or defend their captives, while the counter-terrorists should either deter the bomb from being plowed, defuse it, or salvage the prisoners.
There are a total of nine gaming modes, each of which has diverse aspects distinct to that of the model. Moreover, the game has matchmaking support as well which enables players to play on sincere Valve servers, as well as allows other members of the community to launch their own servers with customized maps and gaming modes. A battle-royale game-mode, ‘Danger Zone’, was launched in the year 2018.
VALORANT
Valorant is a multiplayer game, which has tactical first-person shooter available for free play and is generated and published by Riot Games, for Microsoft Windows. First pestered under the code name Project A in the month of October 2019, the game commenced a closed beta period which allowed restricted entry on April 7, 2020, and later it was completely broadcasted on June 2, 2020. It’s a 5v5 tac-shooter matchup in which you need to bait or defuse the spike in a one-life-per-round, first up to 13 series. You will choose an agent armed with adaptively swift and deadly abilities more than guns and bullets as that will establish chances to let your gunplay glimmer.
LEAGUE OF LEGENDS
League of Legends is another multiplayer online battle area video game created and broadcasted by Riot Games for Microsoft Windows and macOS. Stimulated by Defense of the Ancients, the game obeys a freemium norm. The game was publicised on October 27, 2009. An advanced edition of the game known as League of Legends: Wild Rift for mobile and console, was declared on October 15, 2019. In League of Legends, players speculate the role of a ‘champion’ who has extraordinary skills and that helps them battle against a team of other players or even computer-controlled fighters.
