Team sports

As we saw previously while explaining some popular examples of crowd interaction systems in video games, sports games have a well-developed AI system that works specifically well in team sports. Now we will take an in-depth look at some of the core features of team sports video games and see how they have achieved some interesting results, making the AI characters of those games very challenging and realistic.

If we analyze the real-life sport football, we have two teams each composed of eleven individual players. In order to win the game, the team needs to score more goals than the opponent, so the game can be divided into two basic forms: attacking, where the focus is scoring goals; and defending, where the focus is avoiding ...

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