The best "defense" type modes.

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hazabaza1

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I'm sure you all know what I mean. You have wave after wave of enemy flying at you, with only you, and your trusty gun/sword/magical macguffin to protect you. What are your favourite types of levels or modes like this?

I personally love Horde mode, especially with some buddies, or the Zombie mini-game in Saint's row 2.
 

Jared

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The Left for Dead Series or Time Splitters have to be my favourites ones. Good pacing and fun times!
 

hopeneverdies

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On your post, MacGuffins serve no purpose other than to drive the story. They're useless otherwise.

On topic, high defence, high speed, high HP, high resistance or some combination works for me. Oh wait, game modes? The closest I can think of is the fending off of Combine in Nova Prospekt and all Valve gives you are 3 turrets, and infinite SMG ammo. I just crouch behind the turrets' massive hitboxes.
 

Herb sewell

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Firefight in ODST was surprisingly fun. The only problem is finding 4 friends online as almost no one on my friends list still plays that game.
 

firedfns13

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Gauntlet Dark Legacy! Bahhaahhaahhaha soo not a challenge.
As a serious note, I'm pretty sure that Terrorist Hunt in LVU Campus (I'd say vegas, but you never do hunts anywhere else except for the achievement) was pretty serious 'survival' game.
I mean the game spawns enemies with godlike reflexes behind you with either a spaz12 sniper rifle, a mac11, or an M Tar.
 

kannibus

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Waaaay back in first year, my floor mates and I had a grand old time using the university's network for Starcraft. I was always the Terran player, everyone else was either Zerg or Protoss. Anyway, after a long grueling match, there are only two of us left, myself and another guy playing as Zerg. Now, both of us have more or less milked the map for credits, he's gone with the Zerg swarm and I've got bunkers with Marines.

So he sends in his horde, Zerglings then Hydras, they aren't doing so well so he sends in some Mutalisks and Scourges to take down my Wraiths and Battlecruisers (yes I was a Battlecruiser whore). Still, my defense is rock solid. Sends in the A-Team next, Ultralisks and Guardians who manage to take out a couple of bunkers and punch through only to be stopped cold by my second line of bunkers.

Now he's got this huge swarm of Zerg milling around my first bunker line and I, being the asshole that I am, nuke the entire line after having pulled out the majority of my Marines. After that, there was no more cash and so I just kind of steamrollered him with my Battlecruisers.
 

koeniginator

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L4D Survival mode, Plants versus Zombies, COD:5 WOW zombie onslaught

I think I'm discovering a pattern here.