LAN Game Suggestions

[TevashSzat]

If you like RTS, Age of Empires II comes to mind. You could buy AoE 1 & 2 for a £5 these days.

Or if your laptops could handle them how about Unreal Tournament 2004 or the original UT and/or Quake III?

Hmm, I guess I'll look around and see if any of us has AoE II and see whether it would be something we'd play.

I happen to have UT 2004 somewhere around my house and now I think about it, it would be pretty great.

Try defcon.

Depends what type of game...Diablo 2 is fun with 8 people.

Hard to pick games I know that are good in MP with integrated graphics.

Never tried defcon before, but I have been telling them of the wonders of Diablo 2 for ages, but they always seem to hate it

Well you could try the Call of Duty 1 MP; though its not the best (2 might work?) its good enough; plus its selling really, really cheap if you manage to get a copy, plus the expansion UO has vechiles and ranks. (#2 is $20 so 1 is about 10)

Try America's Army. I don't know if you can play it LAN, but if you get past the Training its a absolutely magnifcent game.

And my final recommendation is one of the Battlefield games. There is battlefield 1942 which is a 2003 game so hould work fine, plus it has a lot of mods which change the gameplay dramticlly (From WWII to Vietnam, Gulf War, Pirates or ACW, etc) THeres also battlefield Vietnam which is similar, not as good (And not as many mods) but has extras like napalm.

Thanks for the suggestions. I have Battlefield 2 and I've loved playing it online, but sadly, its requirements are way too high for most of the laptops that we use.

I'm pretty sure that couple of us have 1942 and CoD1 though so we'll give it a spin

Civ IV. If you're all in the same room and allow simultaneous turns, the game moves very quickly. You could easily pull off a couple deathmatch games on small maps, and it's a ton of fun.

The problem with my friends is that they tend to be extremely impatient and a Civ game would take way too long for them to bother.