Cross-Platform LAN Gaming Suggestions?

darkstar2a writes "Back in the dot.com boom years, a bunch of us would crash the empty customer service department for some fun LAN gaming. Nowadays, though, we use our own computers, and have a significant ratio of Mac users - about 55%. This has brought up a huge frustration in finding games that work cross-platform (PC and Mac), and what exactly we need to make them work. We've only been reliably able to get the following working: Unreal Tournament (but the same game can get kind of old after hours of play), 4x4 Evo 2 (which we got cheap and was a great change of pace), Descent 3 (out of print and relatively difficult to locate.) This has to have been covered somewhere, but we've been unable to locate a resource for it. Can Slashdot Games readers help?"

Comments

Q3

[mrpuffypants]

Quake 3 and its accompanying mods run fine on both platforms.

Re:Q3

[Anonymous Coward]

As does Warcraft III, and America's Army

Blizzard games

[Randar the Lava Liza]

Any and all recent Blizzard games would work fine. Diablo, Diablo II, Warcraft II, Warcraft III, Starcraft. Many will allow LAN play with up to 8 players with just one cd!

New Blizzard games are simultaneous releases of Mac & PC on the same cd. Buy War 3 and with the same disc play on either platform.

Older titles are really cheap too. You can get the Starcraft or Diablo battlechests for around $20 or less.

Go here already

[BMonger]

MacGamer

It lists all kinds of Mac games and if they are compatible with their Windows counterparts.

Tada. Case Closed.