Lan Party game suggestions

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I run monthly LAN parties for about 16 players and I'm trying to come up with a new game to play. Currently we play BF2 and track mania nations. We have previous played IL2 and Farcry.

I was looking for something that could be played co-op against the computer, e.g. alien vs predator skirmish levels. Unfortunately avp doesn't work with windows xp as far as I can tell. I was wondering about starship troopers (sounds a buggy mess :( ) or x-wing vs tie-fighter (hard to get enough copies of the game :confused: ).

Any ideas would be welcome.
 
Yeah its just part of 03/04 just bung on the latest patch and select Invasion game type mode.

Basically you and anyone else on the LAN have to survive ever increasingly difficult waves of enemies on whichever map you choose (we usually play Deck16).

Its a great laugh :D
 
If you are going to do invasion, get the RPG mod and the Satore monster pack for UT04 and you will not be disappointed :D

There is also an invasion defence mod that has turret guns too!
 
Thanks for the replies. I'll look into it. I see there is a mod called fraghouse invasion mod v4 which adds in new maps designed for this type of play. So I'll try that as well. UT2003/4 is good as we used to play it anyway.

Any other games?
 
willthepirate said:
quake 3 with instagib or freeze tag mods,

all you need :D
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Ya Q3A + Corkscrew is awesome.

And you simply have to play Invasion with Instagib or its no where near as much fun.
 
willthepirate said:
quake 3 with instagib or freeze tag mods,

all you need :D
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quoted for truth :D

Although it's not as fun playing against the bots as it's genrally to easy
 
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This is why we dropped UT2004 in the first place, a single player could dominate the game and basically make it pointless for the rest.

Yes, I know the others should practice! :p

Anyway I'll check out the invasion and unwheel mods as they look like good possibilities. Certainly something that is a bit quicker than BF2 would be welcome.

I would love to do a strategy network sessions as well but it's hard to get enough players that know the same game. Although DEFCON is looking like a good chance in the future.
 
if you all have steam, try hidden source. that would be a good laugh at a lan party. as for VS cpu ai, im not really sure apart from C&C sort of games.
 
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Starcraft - One of the best strategy games ever
Red Alert 2
UT2k4
Homeworld 2 is another great strategy game, with the maps being truely massive you can hoard HUGE armys against each other or the computer. its great fun
 
FEAR:Combat - it's free and goes down well at our lans.

Soldat - similarly free, retro side-on shooter.

Savage: Battle for Newerth - Free (again...see where I'm going with this?). It's a great FPS/RTS/RPG crossover

...etc
 
Right. Unwheel and Invasion mods look good, and I'll have a look at the free games suggested as well. Yes, I'm tight as well! :p

Thanks for all the suggestions.
 
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