First person cooperative combat games can help kids learn how to plan and how to work as a team, as long as the missions are set up so that it’s hard enough to finish if you don’t act together. One important thing, though, is to turn off “friendly fire” if you can because kids will spend all of their time killing each other and ignore the mission. (Yes, there are adults like that too, but for most of us, the novelty wears off very quickly.)
First person cooperative combat games can help kids learn how to plan and how to work as a team, as long as the missions are set up so that it’s hard enough to finish if you don’t act together. One important thing, though, is to turn off “friendly fire” if you can because kids will spend all of their time killing each other and ignore the mission. (Yes, there are adults like that too, but for most of us, the novelty wears off very quickly.)