Help me choose 10 games for school computers

Tribes 2
Cossacks Euro Wars
Unreal Tournement
Quake 3 Arena
C&C Tib Sun
Call Of Duty
Random good football game
Need For Speed < Any of them will do
Jedi Knight 2 or Jedi Academy

all those you should b able to run easily and will be cheap to buy
 
Make sure you consider legal issues:

1) Liscensing. Make sure you can legitimately spawn multiple copies of the game from one disk/key. Just because it works, doesn't mean it's legal.

2) Classification. Some of the games mentioned above are rated 15/18 - how old are the people playing the games going to be? TBH certificate 18 titles like Carmageddon are probably a no-no this early in the school year due to the small proportion of 18-year olds at a school in September.

I'm sure on a home network nobody would care less, but if you are using the school's network this is something you need to be very careful with to avoid landing the school and possibly yourself in hot water.
 
see if you can get a copy of a golf game there always good fun on a lan

try lookin for old tiger woods or soemthing like that
 
HangTime said:
Make sure you consider legal issues:

1) Liscensing. Make sure you can legitimately spawn multiple copies of the game from one disk/key. Just because it works, doesn't mean it's legal.

2) Classification. Some of the games mentioned above are rated 15/18 - how old are the people playing the games going to be? TBH certificate 18 titles like Carmageddon are probably a no-no this early in the school year due to the small proportion of 18-year olds at a school in September.

I'm sure on a home network nobody would care less, but if you are using the school's network this is something you need to be very careful with to avoid landing the school and possibly yourself in hot water.
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Wasn't the UK version of Carmageddon rated lower as they used zombies instead of live people?
 
Wow, i leave the thread in the morning and come back to this! Some great suggestions guys, i'll have a look into these.

There will be about 30 computers in all so it doesn't really matter that CS 1.6 won't run on more than 5 pc's with a single key.

In regards to the parents complaining, the head of ICT will be issuing letters to those children who wish to come to the club, so the parents will be well aware of the types of games which their child may be playing. The games which have higher ratings will be monitored to make sure that only those who are old enough to play the games will be playing them.

At the moment, these are winning because of price and being able to use the same key:
Live for Speed demo
CS 1.6
Starcraft

These are near the top but still not sure on using the same cd keys:
UT2k4
AOE2
COD
Serious Sam 2

Also like this idea:
Bry said:
Half Life 1 - You should be able to get copies of the original for like a fiver each, you can then download for free all the main mods like cs, tfc and dod. This imo would be better than going the steam route for what you want. While they may not be the latest versions it would probably work better for you.
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Any other suggestions/information on licensing will be great :)
 
I would check COD's age rateing and Serious Sam 2 is a push on a school computer. Go for Serious Sam 1 if not an older game. If its an RM forgot it as dont buy any games that need T&L, in fact try a demo before buying a game.
 
mark1 said:
Hi guys,

As my role being the ICT Prefect Captain i've been asked to come up with a list of 10 games which will be installed on the school computers and will be played in a 'Games Club'. We'll be having small tournaments at the end of each term for each game.

The games must fit into the below criteria:
  • Can't be too expensive (I should think around £20 would be the maximum per game)
  • There must be a range of games, can't all be FPS's (:()
  • Must be able to set them up easily on the schools LAN
  • Must be able to play them on a LAN without the need for multiple cd keys
  • Must run well on lower spec pc's. I haven't got the exact specs of the school pc's but you can imagine that they will have integrated graphics and not much memory

Now, being an FPS fanboy i don't really know which non-fps games will be best suited to the school environment or which ones will be good fun to play.

I thought about getting the retail version of CSS as it includes DOD:S and HL2: DM yet only costs £15. The only problem with this is that we'd need multiple copies so that Steam doesn't throw a hissy fit over using the same serial number.

Other than that, i have no idea really :confused:

Any help would be great :)

EDIT: The age ratings must be maximum 16. Take into account that the games will be played by 11-16 year olds.
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Playing video games at school I'lll be kucky if I had that wehen I was at skl :p
 
On a more helpful not you might want to check out these:

-Toca race driver series
-GT Legends

Also, Halo bit dated but still great 2 play!
 
Unreal Tournament - it will run great in software mode, and doesnt have CDKey IIRC
 
There are a few games you will need that will run on the majority of school computers and are cheap:

Half-life 1 with TFC and CS1.6 (not to mention the loads of other free addons)

Red Alert 2

Unreal Tournament.

Thats about it really!

All of them dirt cheap and will play well. Problem with many of the games suggested like UT2K4 is that i dounbt the PCs will run them and then games like Diablo 2 and even strategy games like RA2 need a lot of time to play. Even a simple 4 way RA2 game can take several hours to finish. Probably more than you would want if its just a little club.
 
To be honest, Live for Speed or GTR aren't exactly the best bets for kids on keyboard/mouse, as these are more hardcore sim games that need at least a gamepad, and ideally a wheel.

Need for Speed games would be fine though.
 
Dace said:
FPS
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Tactical Ops: UT engine version of CS, approx £5
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Tac Ops was good up to 2.2. 3.15 which was the retail version was terrible.

When we played games at school, UT'99 and CS 1.6 (RIN steam version) were the games of choice.
 
I work in schools as an external techy, and trust me - 99% of computers that schools buy will not run the games mentioned here.

Even the modern ones are "Business spec" rather than the basic multimedia spec, and wont run games like SS2, CS:S, HL2 etc. Your looking at CS1.6, SS1, RA2 etc at the most.

Also, if your schools buy into the LEA's internet, like ours do, we have control over their EXTERNAL firewalls (ie, not the ones in the school) and we don't allow open ports for games.

If you've got a private connection (like a business line) then it'll be fine.
 
Matmulder said:
I work in schools as an external techy, and trust me - 99% of computers that schools buy will not run the games mentioned here.

Even the modern ones are "Business spec" rather than the basic multimedia spec, and wont run games like SS2, CS:S, HL2 etc. Your looking at CS1.6, SS1, RA2 etc at the most.

Also, if your schools buy into the LEA's internet, like ours do, we have control over their EXTERNAL firewalls (ie, not the ones in the school) and we don't allow open ports for games.
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Possibly true, but when we were playing two years ago they were RM pcs with 3.06 ghz p4s and 512mb ram, downside was that they had intel graphics, they were damn good spec at the time, now they've got Pentium Ds, so I guess it kinda depends where you go.

Yes, they'll probably block the net ports, but that doens't stop you playing lan games ;).
 
Just a small hint: My laptop has struggles playing Pro Evo 5 and original CoD with a 3500+, 1GB RAM and an x300, so with an integrated video card your looking at least 4+ years old games to run smoothly.

CS1.6 is a decent choice, as is Q3 arena. :)
 
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