Can anyone reccommend any decent games for LAN?

Appleby · 27 Jan 2012 at 08:56

Hi Guys,

My housemates and a I all own ok-ish spec PC's and I spent a lot of time over the summer installing gigabit Ethernet round the house, so I was wondering if anyone could recommend some decent games to play over LAN?

Age of Empires 3 and Rome: Total War are the current favorites but was wondering if anyone had any more modern recommendations! I don't really mind the genre of game as long as its a good laugh!

Thanks

Alex74 · 27 Jan 2012 at 09:03

I know civ 4 has lan capability, cant remember if 5 does..
Could probably get supreme commander up and running as well

Also obligatory oldschool UT GOTY recommendation

macmodder · 27 Jan 2012 at 09:08

Most of my LAN memories involve Total Annihilation or Quake 2 - it's been a while

Kosmiche · 27 Jan 2012 at 09:10

UT2004.

Oh wait, modern...don't know then sorry.

Kosmiche · 27 Jan 2012 at 09:11

Why don't you sort of go online, all on the same server so you still have the team talk in the room going on.

Then you can play anything you want, glory days.

dangermouse425 · 27 Jan 2012 at 09:12

Starcraft is a LAN favourite of mine, but if you wanted modern then... Starcraft 2?

Kosmiche · 27 Jan 2012 at 09:16

^^ SC2 is famous for not having lan support.

linktoinsanity · 27 Jan 2012 at 09:18

-Starcraft 2 (You need online access though)
-Supreme Commander 1 + 2
-Company of Heroes
-Killing Floor
-Left 4 Dead 1 + 2
-Call of Duty: World at War (Coop campaign and Zombie mode)
-Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

Just some ideas...

Sider · 27 Jan 2012 at 09:22

Serious Sam

Admiral Huddy · 27 Jan 2012 at 09:24

LAN days.. Been awhile.. We used to play Counter Strike, UT, and even Half Life Deathmatch..

The leccy meter used to whizz round

We played BF3 LAN recently but it was still over the Internet and playing 3 instances of the licence behind the same router was a problem..

My suggestion is CS.. Low end graphics and still decent. Been very heavily modded now though so it's lost the appeal for me.

olivier renault · 27 Jan 2012 at 09:26

Aye, serious Sam (1, 2, 3) is awesome on LAN. Look up Alien Swarm too.

dangermouse425 · 27 Jan 2012 at 09:33

Eames said:
^^ SC2 is famous for not having lan support.

Yeah, sorry, I just realised that. Assuming you've got an internet connection on your LAN, then SC2 would be mega.

linktoinsanity said:
-Company of Heroes

Yes, this is epic. Though don't you also need to log onto Relic's CoH internet thingy too?

Bones · 27 Jan 2012 at 10:07

borderlands awesome 4 player coop

insejn · 27 Jan 2012 at 10:22

Warcraft 3/TFT, totally serious about this too.

Civ 5 is afaik unfortunately internet only, same as SC2.

Dicehunter · 27 Jan 2012 at 10:31

The dawn of war series is fantastic for lan

Jay794 · 27 Jan 2012 at 10:32

Any FPSer or and C&C or Red Alert game is worth it

Appleby · 27 Jan 2012 at 11:05

whoa a lot of good suggestions here! I used to do play Counter Strike with my old housemates so it may be time to bring that back! I guess what I need to do is sit and wait for the steam sales to pick some of these up. I have Civ4 knocking around somewhere that I could install and give that a bash. 2 of us play shogun total war but it gets a bit boring having to watch while the other fights.

ColEx · 27 Jan 2012 at 11:09

If you all have access to the internet, why not just use that? Saves a lot of hassle.

InertProtocol · 27 Jan 2012 at 11:11

+1 for the Command & Conquer games...happy days!.

gropingmantis · 27 Jan 2012 at 11:14

Quake3, UT99 and Total Annihilation? The best LAN games are always the nostalgia filled oldies (also finding newer games with LAN support can be difficult)