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Multiplayer Games For Christmas Lull at the Office?

Posted by Cliff on from the fun-for-the-holidays dept.

smallstepforman asks: "Christmas is almost here, and most companies will be running a skeleton staff during the holiday period. Since there will only be 8 people in the entire building where I work, you can guess what we'll all be doing - multiplayer LAN gaming. The team leader (who will be the acting manager for the holiday period) is asking about good games to play during this period. Most of the machines on the LAN are P3@733 with integrated i810 video cards, while some older machines (P2@45) have a Voodoo 3. Which multiplayer games can Slashdot readers recommend? The games need to be easy to pick up, and not require a lot of hard disk space. Free/shareware games or demos should be considered due to legal issues."

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  1. duh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Starcraft. Need I say more?

  2. heh by TheDarkRogue · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quake I
    -Small [we all run it off of mini cds]
    -Can run on anything from a p75 up
    -There are things to make it nicer [GLQuake}
    -Simple
    -Tons of mods avalible [TF]

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    1. Re:heh by tlhIngan · · Score: 3, Informative

      Works fine if your network runs Win9x, but Quake runs awful on WinNT/Win2k/WinXP machines. GL Quake is nice, *IF* you have a decent video card, but since most work machines tend to come with POS ATI 128-something or other, that really isn't an option.

      Pick a simple game, like Tetrinet2/Tetrinet - first you'll get everyone in the office hooked (it's tetris... at least you can try to win some office chick time!). This runs on practically any machine that runs Win32 code, horribly addictive, and easily alt-tabbable...

  3. Counterstrike by DJayC · · Score: 2, Informative

    Definitely Counterstrike. The rounds are short enough to make you not realize how many hours you are wasting. It doesn't need an amazing computer to run, and the two teams are quite different so mastering each will take a bit. The levels are fun, and depending on how you do things you can cheat if you have a teammate near you who is dead! Give it a shot.. (it's an addon for Half Life)

  4. Liquid War by Pilferer · · Score: 3, Informative

    Give Liquid War a try...

    http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/

    It's pretty unique.
    Here's some screenshots.

  5. Worms Armageddon / Worms World Party by Fritzed · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is practically no way that you can't become addicted to these games. Worms Armageddon isn't totally 2K/XP compatible but there is a patch for that on their website. Have Fun, Fritz

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  6. Soldat by taion · · Score: 4, Informative

    For some bloody, visceral shooting action, I'd suggest Soldat, which is very similar to Quake/Counter-Strike, except it's a 2D sidescroller. The chaos is immense, and it's easily one of the best side-scrolling 2D action games I've played. It supports multiplayer quite well, and is free (as in beer). It should run fine on your hardware, as well.

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  7. Cube by D.A.+Zollinger · · Score: 5, Informative

    One word, Cube.

    It is free (ZLIB software licence - similar to BSD), runs on win32, linux, linuxppc, and can be played in both server and single player mode. FPS style of play, using OpenGL and SDL, it is smooth, fun, and looks great! We need more opensource games like this.

    Most importantly of all, cleanup is simple, just delete the directory you unzipped the archive to, and it is all gone.

    Enjoy!

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    1. Re:Cube by Ayende+Rahien · · Score: 2, Informative

      Horrible performance on WinXP, Athlon 1.2G, 640MB.
      We're talking about 5-10 fps, at 800x600

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  8. FreeCiv by mvdwege · · Score: 3, Informative

    What about FreeCiv? Perhaps it scores low on the easy-to-pickup scale, but I imagine anyone has played some Civilisation version before.

    Bonus is that as a turn based game it can be easily paused when necessary, and it is heaps of fun.

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  9. Try Armagetron multiplayer by MegaHamsterX · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would give a vote to Armagetron. I have burned many many hours at work with this, you just need to have geeks who like tron around. http://armagetron.sourceforge.net Be sure to grab the addons as well

  10. Moonbase Commander by RupW · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.moonbasecommander.com/

    Simple and fun to play, low system requirements. Only four players at once, though.

  11. FreeCiv by haplo21112 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Free...
    Multiplayer...
    Lightwieght....
    Did I meantion its free...
    Better yet its civilization, can kill hours(days) easily...

    Just my plug for my favorite time waster

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  12. Re:Wanna Have some Fun?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Battlefield 1942 will NOT run on a 810 integrated graphics chip. And even if 810 was enough, 733Mhz is a bit slow for BF1942.

    Why hasn't anyone read this guy's PC requirements?