[Old School LAN Party] Looking for game suggestions

Prefect

Hey all,

Looking for some solid suggestions for an old school, beer and pizza LAN party. 6ish to 10 Players type thing.

Doesn't even have to be a crazy high end graphical deal, just a lot of fun.

Thanks in advance!

P

Stabbity Style

Defcon (up to 6)
Altitude
Bioshock 2
Company of Heroes (up to 8)
Counter-Strike: Source or Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Dirt 3 (up to 8)
Driver: San Francisco (up to 8)
GTA 4
Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Killing Floor
Left 4 Dead 2 (up to 8)
Men of War: Assault Squad (up to 8)
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (up to 8)
Civilization 4 or 5
Sniper Elite V2
Stellar Impact
Team Fortress 2
Rainbow Six Vegas 1 or 2
World in Conflict
Call of Duty games

ratzofftoya

If it's old school you want:

Diablo 2 or Torchlight
Heroes of Might & Magic III or IV
Age of Empires II
Alpha Centauri
BGEE
Homeworld
Unreal Tournament or Quake

bigwillch

Aliens versus Predator 2 springs to mind

Nathrak

I never tried it with that many people but I always thought Giants: Citizen Kabuto would be fun.

farbekrieg

Age of Empires 2
Deus Ex
quake 3
left for dead 2

TychoCelchuuu

Worms Armageddon
Armagetron

Ah_Pook

http://www.gog.com/gamecard/moonbase_commander

man now i want to play moonbase commander multiplayer

S-Starwind

I'll throw in a suggestion for The Ship.
Great fun/anarchy to be had.

Xaquin

If you like your friends and want to keep them, Natural Selection

If you like your friends but want bitter rivalries and grudges to spring up, Total Annihilation.

subedii

Nobody plays it online anymore, but Bionic Commando has LAN play, and as a multiplayer game there's nothing else quite like it.

Magicka, the game where every situation is one misplaced spell away from complete disaster, and that's all part of the fun. Not sure if it's LAN play or not though.

redfield85

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. I just re-installed this (and it surprisingly works). Had so much fun back in High School with it. Was one of my first real main games to play online.

Spiritfire

My friends and I used to have LAN parties every few months. At first they started off as a day-thing, but then somehow they grew into full week-long sessions of insanity. Oh days of college...

Here are some of our favorites. We mostly played cooperative games... which may explain why we could stand each other for more than a weekend at a time.

Rainbow Six: Raven Shield
Our roots were in Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear, but we tried Vegas but felt really disappointed. Cooperative mode was always a blast and we would keep playing a mission until we won without a single casualty.

Ghost Recon
Also talking about the original series here. Add the Navy Seals mod or any mod to buff up the weapon selection and enjoy some very good cooperative sessions. Alternatively, the competitive modes were a lot of fun and unique. This was the first FPS game I've played where I could have more than 2 teams competing on a map.

Freelancer
We only played this over one weekend LAN, but oh boy did we play it into the ground... from space... with lasers...

Company of Heroes
I don't know why we chose this game over others since most of us didn't really like RTS games. Still, we'd do competitive and cooperative skirmishes. The AI was surprisingly competent in the latter... but maybe it wasn't and we're just bad at the game.

Worms Armageddon
We had problems running this one on our newer machines. Whenever a few of us got bored, we'd all play a quick game of Worms.

Games I'd like to try out at a LAN include:
SkyDrift, Artemis, Monaco

LaPuzza

Rainbow 6 and Ghost Recon are world class, and I espcially like teaming up to complete missions in GR.

Age of Empires/Warcraft 2 are my favorite LAN party RTS games.

While Quake and Halflife get a lot of love for fragfests, I think Shadow Warrior (or Duke 3d in a pinch) should not be overlooked.

PMAvers

Thread needs more UT2k4, if just because of the crazy amount of content it has between it and the official community packs.

Plus it has the original Horde mode.