Games with high replay value and low spec

[Overslop]

Will it run on 1.6ghz duo with 512mb ram?

Should run fine I imagine. The OP could download a demo to find out for sure.

 

[LabR@t]

quakelive

 

[Cycrow]

Football Manager!

bad idea
that could cost him his degree at uni

 

[SeraphX]

final fantasy VIII, immense story and will run on a pentium 3 minimum if memory serves

 

[ishoeyi]

i love simcity 4

 

[lollox]

+1 for

C & C first decade
warcraft 3
any civ or alpha centuri that will run

and 2 suggestions of my own

Port Royale 2
Galactic Civilizations 2 (worth checking a demo runs well through)

and Deus Ex is supposed to be epic but ive not got round to it yet.

 

[Egon]

Civilization III

My first thought. Civ 4 would be too intensive.

 

[petemyster]

Should run fine I imagine. The OP could download a demo to find out for sure.

Memory: 2GB RAM
Video: 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics

no such luck, thanks for all the suggestions though everyone

 

[Tefal]

counter strike?

 

[petemyster]

counter strike?

that addiction died many years ago and I can't go back to it after my 1st impressions of the patch they released for it

 

[Podmonkey]

GTA3, Original mafia, UT99, Deus ex (story driven but very open), Commandos.

 

[modo77]

Football Manager!

!!

 

[Sinny]

Age of Empires II (and expansions)
Starcraft
Fallout

also try looking on Steam indy games section, games like Braid, Geometry wars etc will last you a while, while not impacting performance.

 

[bhavv]

no such luck, thanks for all the suggestions though everyone

Thats Civ V, not Civ IV.

Civ IV min specs are:

1.2GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor, 256 MB RAM, 64 MB video card with hardware T&L (GeForce 2, Radeon 7500 or better),

Though it would run pretty horribly on that.

 

[Tefal]

I'l throw in galactic civ 2 + expansions.


takes ages to play though an "immense" size galaxy

 

[bhavv]

I tried Galciv II Ultimate Edition and really couldnt get into it

 

[Tefal]

have you read the pc gamer dairies on it?

I couldn;t get in to it much but after reading them i picked u pa lot of tips and love it now


also there's a massive star wars vs star trek mod, there is somthing very fun about watching your borg cube blow **** out of a star destroyer

 

[Naff8000]

alpha centauri, sim golf, doom

 

[bhavv]

have you read the pc gamer dairies on it?

I couldn;t get in to it much but after reading them i picked u pa lot of tips and love it now


also there's a massive star wars vs star trek mod, there is somthing very fun about watching your borg cube blow **** out of a star destroyer

I could retry it, but Civ 5 is out soon so I dont think I will.

I found Galciv far too complex, had no idea what to do. I much preferred Imperium Galactica II, but they never made anymore of those.

 

[No1newts]

So I'm leaving to move to uni on the 19th, and I will be leaving my main desktop behind. For whatever reason if I am stuck in halls on a lonely night and need something to play, can you guys reccommend games that have high replay value, but will run on a laptop with 1.6Ghz duo core, 512mb ram and a 128mb graphics card!

I'm not talking about story based games which you could play over again (cause i don't think you could ) but instead games like plants Vs Zombies, defense grid, that sort of thing.

Thanks

Settlers 3
heroes of might and magic 4 (or was it 3)
alpha centuari
most command and conquers
x-com (just started playing again myself )

probably plenty more buts that all I can think of at the mo