Wait, did you say that you can play this game online with friends? Cool!

Cool Cats,

Hi Cool Cats, unfortunately no, the duel mode is for two players that use the same computer. Much like we used to play pinball games a decade or so ago. I've not actually played the duel mode yet, so not sure exactly how it works, but I would expect it to be a turn based system as you cannot move more than one tile at a time, so there would be conflict between the two players trying to move tiles. Also, I didn't see a twin control set up for both players. I'll confirm this later once I've finished adding to my comment above.

Update:

The duel mode is unfortunately just against the games AI. You take turns to clear the coloured squares. It's actually quite challenging. My first two attempts ended in failure..

JEDIGEG,

I was playing Dead Island cooperatively with a friend. There are usually four of us playing, so becasue there were only two of us we just played without doing any of the main or side quests, just replaying quests that can be repeated over and over and killing zombies, opening crates to get weapons, most of which we sold to upgrade or modify our main weapons, mainly to gain experience. Considering it is now over 8 years old, it still looks amazing. We also played a little Half-Life 2: Deathmatch (an even older game originally released 15 years ago and still has an active modding community with well over a thousand custom maps released since its release.

I used to play tabletop Dungeons and Dragons and sometimes Tunnels & Trolls (a simpler version of D&D). We would start the game early Saturday afternoon and play through until breakfast time on Sunday. This was a weekly event that lasted for over a year. The only thing that stopped it was I went to university and wasn't able to join in as much. At the time I was disappointed as it had been my turn to be dungeon master and I'd spent almost three months designing a new dungeon and had build a light box that would allow the use of coloured crayons that glowed when the light box was switched on. It made mapping a pleasure. To make the game more interactive, I'd also created different potions that the players had to eat or drink (moon dust {the sweets that explode and crackle in your mouth when they become wet}, sugar, lemon juice, a pinch of salt, apple juice, salted biscuits etc and other consumables. Sweet indicted a positive potion a sour one a negative potion. I also made models of weapons they could find etc. With respect to computer games, I used to play a game called Darklands an RPG set in Europe during the middle ages for up to 12 or more hours without a break apart from the obvious. I still have some saves from that game on a floppy disk, but none of my working computers motherboards support the old floppy discs. I do have a couple of old motherboards, but haven't got around to building a computer with older components yet as I need to buy a couple of cases to start the builds. I think I have all the necessary components and software to create two pre XP computers, but I never seem to have the time. I have a lot of older games that won't play on the latest machines even with emulators, so I will eventually get around to building them and intend installing older Windows platforms. I still have a copy of DOS and a very thick DOS manual, but no early versions of Windows for example Win v3.1 which I used for years. The oldest windows software I still have on disc is Windows 95, plus I have every upgrade up to the latest.

To this day, no RPG has come close to creating such an in depth experience as Darklands (IMO). You can still buy Darklands via GOG and Steam, though for years after it was released it was available for free via loads of abandonware sites; that is until GOG found the original license holder and got permission to start selling it again, so it was removed from those abandonware sites as has many other great games from the 80's, 90's and early 2000's that were available for free from abandonware sites. I just wish some developer would create an updated version of the game.

p.s. I have both of the Star Wars Dark Forces games in my Steam account. THIS and THIS may bring back some memories. :)