This in turn fosters a reciprocal relationship facilitated by special indicators that display the location and status of everyone else in the group. Letting a partner die diminishes the chance of success - or can even result in a game-over screen - so all members of a team can usually depend on friendly aid.
Healing a defenseless comrade is another common mechanic that ensures players try to help each other out. To achieve this, friendly-fire and other possible sources of griefing are diminished or removed, enemies are tweaked to take on the firepower of multiple players, and player-goals are designed around non-competitive challenges, e.g., everyone gets an achievement for defeating the boss instead of one person getting an achievement for the most kills. Most action games encourage players to work together by turning a Prisoner’s Dilemma into a Trust Dilemma, i.e., making it so that helping each other out is always the most beneficial course of action for everyone involved. For all its faults, Resident Evil 5 has some very high production values. However, the game’s co-op mode is incredibly fun and rewarding.
As one would expect, these elements don’t make for the most compelling single-player experience. Resident Evil 5 is notorious for its stiff controls, frustrating partner-AI, obtuse interface, questionable quicktime events, and an incredibly silly storyline.
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