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Good Games for LAN Parties?
An Anonymous Coward asks: "I'm trying to figure out what games are good for LAN parties and especially what games don't require a CD after installation or at least allow multi-player games with only one CD. I'd like to have friends over to play over a LAN without everyone needing to own the same game. Starcraft will let you do this but I couldn't find much info about other games so I thought I'd turn to Slashdot. Which games do you like for LAN parties and why, and especially which games allow a group of people to play if only one owns the CD?"
Maybe I'm a freak, but I don't really like FPS or RTS games. For LAN party goodness, I'd have to recommend driving games as my weapon of choice. Check out the Carmageddon series in particular -- it's like really fast, angry bumper cars.
--saint
I play practically nothing else at Lan's now. Get a rocket arena server up and going (this may take some time, do this the day before), or for a more inclusive game play jailbreak.
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Jailbreak is definately easier to set up and has some unique properties: The score of the team is the score of the middle ranking player in the team - this encourages genuine teamplay rather than individual heroics; The game also presents numerous opportunities for the lamer players to be heroes by rescuing their more gung-ho mates from jail.
Once you're in to rocket arena though, point of no return
There's also some mileage in bringing a PS2 along for something more chilled out. SSX and beer, for instance.
Dave
I write a blog now, you should be afraid.
For HL mods at lan parties, I'm a big fan of Science and Industry. Lots of fun there, plus it has just the right ridiculous sillyness to it. :)
Heretic II is also excellent with a good local group.
"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help" -- Calvin
Or try Armagetron.