Not everyone can play games online, so they are unfortunately stuck playing with AI partners. But no matter how far games have come in the last few decades, developers still have trouble creating AI teammates that act like real humans would. Go to the source for Gamesradar's Top 8 Most Annoying Things AI Teammates Do...

Not everyone can play online with GamesRadar editors. For starters, there’s just no way to get our Gamertags out to everyone. For another reason, we don’t want to play with most of you. It’s because of this (and arguably other necessitating reasons) that the non-player character, or NPC, was created. The goal of these characters is to create, as closely as possible, real people, when there aren’t real people to play with.

But we haven’t met a game that could fool us yet. Though some basic human interactivity can be simulated realistically, such as true love (see image, right). Complex emotions, like the feeling of having a teammate whose fatalistic attitude won’t cause him or her to b-line for the nearest inescapable death, have yet to be artificially recreated.

Will scripting and AI ever replace the experience of playing a game with other people? Yeah, they will. As of right now, however, there’s a huge list of things (eight of them) that your average artificial teammate is more likely to pull than actually “help.” We don’t know why we put “help” in quotes. Here are the biggest problems, gripes and ethical dilemmas created by having NPCs for teammates.

Miss Razz via gamesradar.com »