Before shooters took over the gaming scene, Bomberman was the premiere multiplayer gaming franchise. Jun 24, 2009 - Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a free bomberman clone to play at LANs. It would be nice if it supported a lot of players.

Thanks for the suggestions so far guys. I do agree that L4D is amazing. We play it quite a lot.

We are just looking for new games to play, and I do love me some bomberman. Also, some people at the LANs do not have the most amazing computers. I am still considering the emulators, but I was hoping to find a bomberman with more than 4 or 5 players.

I found an old pc game called atomic bomberman that supports up to 10 but its got some wierd graphics and its not free. I swear that I had heard of a free bomberman clone but I can't find it anywhere.

Before shooters took over the gaming scene, Bomberman was the premiere multiplayer gaming franchise. Though the series was known mostly for its competitive multiplayer, some of the best entries in the series – especially Saturn Bomberman – featured local co-op as well. After letting the series lie dormant for too long, Konami has finally revived the franchise with. The former Switch exclusive now resides on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Steam as well, bringing 2-player local co-op plus the local and online multiplayer that fans crave. Super Bomberman R’s story mode consists of six distinct planets, each with eight levels and two challenging boss fights. The story is surprisingly cinematic, with multiple animated and fully voiced cutscenes per planet.

The basic premise is that the evil Buggler Army has revived the five Dastardly Bombers in order to take over the universe, and only the eight Bomberman Rangers (each color-coded and with a humorous personality trait). The English voices are a bit too hammy (and wildly different from traditional series voices), but at least they make each colored Bomberman truly distinct from the others. The gameplay will be instantly familiar to series fans. New movie jumper. Our heroes start with no power-ups and must use their bombs to destroy soft blocks and enemies, hopefully finding useful items in the process. Players can walk diagonally, but it rarely comes into play because most levels adhere to the traditional grid-structure that characterizes mainline Bomberman games. Throwing bombs is a bit iffy because the throw distance is too far, and bombs can also land on top of structures when you’d want them to bounce over. Oddly, bombs are laid with the B button on Xbox/Circle on PlayStation, and (for no discernible reason) this can’t be changed.

But other than these quirks (which you get used to), it feels like a proper Konami/Hudson-developed Bomberman game. Your enjoyment of story mode will be affected by your camera setting. The default view tilts the playfield at a strange obtuse angle that nobody could possibly find intuitive. But the shoulder buttons will toggle between a couple of other angles, with “front” being the normal right angle that suits this series best. The camera can thankfully be set to “front” in the settings and never worried about again. Story mode supports two-player local co-op. The second player has the option of joining in on the Setup screen that precedes each world, with both players having access to any character the main player has unlocked.

This entry has lots of unlockable guest characters from other Konami series, such as Castlevania, Silent Hill, Gradius, Metal Gear Solid, and more. All can be used in all game modes, co-op or competitive. If the second player doesn’t join in before starting a world, they can still join in during the world itself. The only catch is the second player won’t appear until the current level is completed. So if you wanted help on a boss, you’d need to have the player join before reaching that boss.

It’s a needless restriction, but most levels are short enough to minimize the inconvenience. Just as in Saturn Bomberman, bringing a friend along for story mode doesn’t automatically make the game easier. Each player’s bombs can destroy either player, and you tend to lay a lot of bombs while working through a level. The necessary risk associated with using your bombs has always been a hallmark of the series, after all. So the team needs to watch out for each other and perhaps even coordinate movements to minimize friendly fire. Both players share a pool of five lives per world, with no way to earn extra lives. If one person burns through the team’s lives, everybody suffers.