Review:
In this book, Janes discusses the gameplay and appeal of 60+ competitive multiplayer games. As in his other book, The Most Relaxing Video Games, everything is covered in alphabetical order, and each game includes information about when it was released, its publisher, developer, genre, number of players, and the formats/systems on which it can be played at the time of the book's publication. Each game also includes numerous full-color screenshots.
I really liked Janes' book on relaxing games. I'm not sure he was the best person to write this book, unfortunately. I don't play a lot of competitive multiplayer games, but my dad does, and from watching and talking to him, even I know there are certain titles that would likely be included in a lot of lists of "best competitive multiplayer games" that weren't included here, although they were sometimes mentioned in Janes' write-ups of other games. For example, Counter-Strike 2, Valorant, Call of Duty: Warzone, and Fortnite aren't on Janes' list. It's tough to tell without a tally of all the genres mentioned, but it felt like the book was fairly heavy on party games in particular. A few shooters were mentioned, but I suspect Janes isn't as interested in that genre.
Another problem with this book was that the editing was horrible. Comma usage was a mess, and there were multiple instances of homophone confusion.
All in all, while I still generally liked the way Janes talked about the appeal and gameplay of individual games and appreciated the screenshots, this wasn't nearly as good as his other book.
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