LAN party: What games should be played?

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Hidden and Dangerous on two sets, Quake 2 or Starcraft.

 

[Nimbus]

C&C generals. Imo, the last good and addicting C&C game.

Hehe, you must be alone in that opinion. Most people hated Generals.

I can't help myself when I have the ability to put a unit in a car and drive into my friends base and take out his power stations...win..That and the 'Rebel ambush' with GLA demo was so amazingly cheese. You can make them appear right in his base and make them self detonate causing mass damage... But we all have a good time Generals everytime we play it. Something ridiculous and awesome always seems to happen.

I'm not saying it was bad, just the least popular c&c ever.

 

[Amnestic]

Homeworld.

This.

Oh so many times this.

 

[B4D 9R4MM3R]

Unreal Tournament G.O.T.Y. and Red Alert 2 should be pretty good for 1998 PCs.

 

[Shellsh0cker]

Unreal Tournament 2004 will run on almost anything, and is probably the most fun I've had at a LAN party. Plus, you only need one set of discs; EPIC released a patch which allows the game to be played without the disc, so install on everybody's, patch them all, and you're set.

 

[CoziestPigeon]

Starcraft...L4D would be awesome, but likely not run...probably some UT...and definitely try some Diablo2. It runs, and it's always a good time if you are sick of killing each other.

 

[B4D 9R4MM3R]

Unreal Tournament 2004 will run on almost anything, and is probably the most fun I've had at a LAN party. Plus, you only need one set of discs; EPIC released a patch which allows the game to be played without the disc, so install on everybody's, patch them all, and you're set.

They're only using '98 spec PCs. And G.O.T.Y. will run without disks and without patches. Just install and go!

 

[ChocoCake]

Hidden and Dangerous on two sets, Quake 2 or Starcraft.

Unreal Tournament G.O.T.Y. and Red Alert 2 should be pretty good for 1998 PCs.

These would be good... Don't know about Red Alert 2 though.

 

[B4D 9R4MM3R]

I've never gone wrong with a good 8-way game of RA2. Of course, I'm biased because it's one of my favourite games.

 

[ChocoCake]

I've never gone wrong with a good 8-way game of RA2. Of course, I'm biased because it's one of my favourite games.

Ya, I see your point, but I was just speaking for the rest of the people playing. For most of them, the only RTS game they've played is AoE2... see my point?

 

[Sensenmann]

COD4
Halo 1
SWAT 4

Command and Conquer (any of the new ones)
Starcraft

 

[B4D 9R4MM3R]

Not a big Age of Empires fan unfortunately. But if that's what you guys like have a blast!

 

[Unusual_Bulge]

You might just be able to manage some Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory on PCs that old.
1. Its free
2. Team-oriented, objective-based, cooperative goodness
3. Hilarious

 

[ChocoCake]

COD4
Halo 1
SWAT 4

Command and Conquer (any of the new ones)
Starcraft

COD4 is out ('98 PCs 'member?).
Don't know which new CnCs can run on '98, guess I'll check.

You might just be able to manage some Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory on PCs that old.
1. Its free
2. Team-oriented, objective-based, cooperative goodness
3. Hilarious

Never heard of to be honest.

 

[TheBlackKnight]

Flatout 2: Destruction derby is simply awesome.

All the other games mentioned so far are good too;

 

[NeedAUserName]

'Tis old, but Age of Empires 2?

 

[ChocoCake]

'Tis old, but Age of Empires 2?

That is a game that will be there.

 

[The Ovlar]

My favorite LAN game was always Alien vs Predator 2

The game is horribly unbalenced and the maps arn't the greatest, but great fun late at night.
to keep it fair try to have only 1 predator to every 2 humans and 2 aliens, and just go at it, you wont be disaspointed!

I think you can download the mutiplayer demo for free somewhere, and gives you enough stuff to have fun with if you cant find the game.