The reason the multiplayer was dead back when the game was new was because, at least on consoles, there were massive problems even getting the damn thing to work. The netcode was the most shoddy piece of shit I've ever seen, I think I managed to play maybe 2 games online with it, and one of them was laggy as hell, before a patch came along and screwed everyone who had the wrong NAT type set up, and no amount of asking for technical help on the forums yeilded results. Years later I still have no idea how to change my NAT type, or even what that means.
The singleplayer was fun though.
The singleplayer was fun though.