Freeloading PC Multiplayer Party Games

Thanks to 1UP for its 'Freeloader' article profiling little-known but free multiplayer party games for the PC. The author explains of the featured games: "All of them are quick to download, easy on the system requirements, free of charge, and support six or more players. Perfect for the next time you throw together a quick gaming session", before pointing to Little Fighter 2 ("Super-deformed kids hitting each other in the face with baseball bats"), Soldat ("about as close as you can come to a side scrolling Quake deathmatch"), and Liquid War ("Definitely the most fun you'll have playing with puddles since you were six.")

Comments

Soldat problems

[Sparr0]

The biggest problem with Soldat as a party game is that it has very bad LAN support. 90% of the time at least a few players at my LAN parties cant see the server (or connect by IP) at all, and sometimes NO ONE can see it. But for playing online, it rocks.

PS: doesnt work under wine or winex :(

controls

[kisrael]

I've always loved "party games"...on PC the usual issue is the controls...

I remember playing a port "Rampart" in college, around 1992 or so...one player on mouse, one on keyboard, one on joystick...and the mouse player had a HUGE advantage.

I guess now, you can just get 6 cheap USB gamepads and a few of those USB splitter ports? Is that how it usually works?