 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Last man standing" video games – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(April 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
| Part of a series on |
| First-person shooters |
|---|
| Subgenres |
| Gameplay |
| Lists |
Last man standing (LMS),last one standing (LOS), orlast team standing (LTS) is amultiplayerdeathmatch gameplay mode featured in certaincomputer and video games, particularly, but not exclusively,first-person shooters, and is also the basis ofbattle royale games. The aim of a player in a last-one-standing match is to neutralize their opponents and remain the sole survivor. The basic rules followed are generally the same as a regular deathmatch mode, with one important difference being thatrespawn is limited ornot allowed at all. Each player is assigned a specific number of lives per match (or just one when there is no respawn). Once these lives have been expended, the player is no longer able to return to the current match and remains as an invisible spectator until there is a winner and the LOS round is over. In some games, the player is allowed to buy or pick up items before spawning, while other titles have the player spawn with full weapons and ammo and there are no powerups available on the map.
Several different variations of the last man standing mode exist, with the most common being team LOS. The rules are the same as the standard LOS, the winning team being the one that eliminates all members of the opposing teams while keeping at least one of its members alive.
The first last-one-standing video game with a shrinking play zone was the 1983 action gameBomberman.[1]