I need a multiplayer game for LAN
 

We have 2 pc's hooked up on a LAN and i want some games to play on this.

I have a pretty good pc, but the other one is not that great.
It's about 4 years old and cant handle most of the new games.

It's a Compaq with 500mhz K6-2, 194mb ram, 64mb radeon 7000.

you get 25 fps on c-strike on that pc. :(.

we currently play age of empires 2 and red alert 2 on the LAN and i was wondering what other games we could play.

thanks.

get some old obscures games like ..Genome. What else is good..any half life mod, I hear Tribes are good lan games..you could most likely run the first one no problem.

Try Cossacks It's quite a fun game on lans. Really large scale RTS similar to AOE, battles can be really fun, and they just released a new 3-pack (cossacks anthology) with the game and expansions.

Or another of my favorites, Worms World Party which is (in case you've never heard of it) a team based game where you have a team of worms and your goal is pretty much just to kill each other using tons of cool weapons, and has fully deformable terrain.

Both are really fun at LANs.

Quake II. That game is fun as HELL on LAN, and will run on basically anything that turns on.

soldat
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starcraft / brood wars..


play 2 human vs 6 computer..
good times :)

HOLY CRAP I LOVE THAT GAME!! I remember playing that for hours, ejecting everyone from their mechs and wreaking havoc! Now i must find the disc and reinstall it.........oh yah as for the original topic at hand....i must agree with the post about starcraft, that will run on anything and is fun as hell

Another plug for brood wars. My son and I play it all the time.
Delta Force is also a lot of fun, you can play 1v1 mode and just run around killing each other.

ooh! i remember genome! i played it a long while back. let me see if i can find a copy.

and thanks for all the suggestions.

Why 8 people
 

Why, when playing a LAN game, (oh lets just say hrmmm Diablo II) you can only have 8 people in one game?
And then on another game (oh humbug- lets say runescape)
you can have thousands of people on one game/server thing?

thanks in advance

Because that's the way the developers designed the game?

erm..
I guess thats a valid reason..

I had 8 people playing Zero Hour last night, and I said god-damn! it was slow... I can just imagine 20 or 30 people trying to play...

I vote for this game! but always remember to watch for the zergling rush...
~Crack

Maybe they only expected 8 people to play the game
or
Maybe they liked the number 8

dunno, but with 8 people, diablo (in hell mode) gets really annoying because if you don't stick together, you will die really easily (at least with the new version) personally, i think for Diablo II, it's better to play with 5-6 people. anything more thatn that gets way too chaotic.

yah, either starcarft or diablo II

The minions of darkness strengthen. It's another great multiplayer game.

If you feel like a bit of work, Marathon is a great piece of MP fun, and runs on older machines. Think Halo without vehicles, this is where Bungie built up from. You'll have to download the data files, which vary depending on whether or not you want single player =D As you're wanting LAN games, I'd reccomend the Total Conversion Rubicon

It's not just a valid reason, it IS the reason. Games are designed to have a certain amount of players. If it has 8, the developers don't think more than 8 will work good, or it may exceed bandwidth/console specification limits. If it allows 64, then it's obviously a huge amount of players-designed game. EverQuest wouldn't work with single player, and Metal Gear Solid wouldn't work multiplayer. It's simply how the game is designed.

-Lasereth

Broodwars. :) Simple as that...

Red Alert :) The original one is by far the best RTS (behind StarCraft :P) I used to play that game against comps for hours on end. Those Soviet tanks with two barrels look so sweet, haha so were the tesla-coils :)

I'll second this one. This game's a BLAST, and uncrippled shareware to boot. Give it a try.