The game has now become more of an actual community, an environment where anything goes. With the new version of Myth, Bungie also supplies tools for building your own levels and landscapes, which you can then make available online to other avid players. This has become a more common practice, especially among 3-D adventure games, first gaining prominence with the wildly popular Doom . Entire Web subcultures have emerged around these networkable games, so it's getting pretty easy to find a group of people to play against. If you're feeling a little more mellow, try a nice game of Monopoly at Westwood Online .
Network games combine all that's great about both computer games and the Internet.
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