Multiplayer Games For Christmas Lull at the Office?

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."

Comments

heh

[TheDarkRogue]

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]

Re:heh

[tlhIngan]

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...

Liquid War

[Pilferer]

Give Liquid War a try...

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

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

Worms Armageddon / Worms World Party

[Fritzed]

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

Soldat

[taion]

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.

Cube

[D.A. Zollinger]

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!

FreeCiv

[mvdwege]

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.

Mart

FreeCiv

[haplo21112]

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