OMG, im sorry, but the mission thing that you were talking about is the best part of online play, Il describe that in a sec. But also, I believe it is 8 player online, just so few people have the game that its hard to get more people together, cause ive done 5 player before i think, and stuff like that, but that only works in like the deathmatch part. OK, and the mission part. What it is is it tells you like what you have to do, such as hack a computer, and it guides everybody to where that computer is, and so everybody rushes to get to the computer. Yet when somebody gets to the computer, then everybody else has to kill them in order to get to the computer. Thats probably where you had the 3v1. Because your trying to hack the computer, and everybody else wants to get into the computer to hack it, so they need to kill you. But its so awesome, cause you can like hide behind the wall inside of the room where the computer is, then people walk in and you just shoot their brains out, its soooooo awesome and really fun. I would really recomend this game for anybody that wants another good online game to play or has friends over awesome. Also, its fun to beat the story mode in all the different difficulties. There are like 5 or 6 difficulties from Rookie or something to 00 agent, and its super fun. Its also super fun the get like silencers and stuff in the game, and although the story is short, its fun fun fun, all the way through. Certain objectives are much easier to get through if you use the silencer and its super fun.