It is a monument to the stubbornness of fans who refused to accept "no" as an answer. When you finally manage to connect to a friend, and you both stand on top of the Empire State Building as shape-shifting monsters, and you launch yourselves at each other in a mid-air clash of claws and musclemass—for three seconds, the desync stops. The lag clears. And you are playing the game that Radical Entertainment dreamed of but could never build.
The modders figured it out. Not perfectly. Not elegantly. But they did it with donated server time and GitHub repositories. For the adventurous, the mod is available via the "Blacklight Launcher." Warning: This is not for casual users. prototype multiplayer mod
But as a piece of digital folklore, it is sublime. It is a monument to the stubbornness of