Hello All,

I spend all day on the phone telling people how to fix their corporate LANS, etc, but have never got round to gaming

Christmas is coming and my two brothers and I are all going to my folks and will be setting up a LAN for the purpose of kicking each others butt

Problem is, what games to buy?

PC spec is quite low and it will be a 10/100 network with a hub (no switch) so no games than need super computers please. Can you recommend some good games for us novices to have fun with, not just first person shoot em ups but other types too

Cheers, Jon

 

Its a case what to download

I like
Quake 3 Arean, even though i get my **** whooped
Unreal
Red Alert 2
Champ man

All i can think of at the moment

Si

 

Cheers Si

I will get on google and have a look - do you have the URL's?

 

If your on MSN, add my email address. Might have a few "select" programs for you

Si

 

I'm not on MSN - do you want to zip them up and fire them over?

 

Im not zipping 700MB lol

 

Burn them to CD?

I have just found a 70.0MB download demo of Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds and am downloading that - any good?

 

Possibly, email me a forwarding address.

never played that mate.

Quake 3's a good lan game though.

Si

 

OK Si, will forward you my works address, no pressure, my thanks if you do

Don't you just love ADSL?




50:1 contention from my work

 

Si - YHM

 

i can get 70

 

LOL

 

Thats why im super si

 

Most popular game on the internet and at lan sessions....

http://www.counter-strike.net/

either pop into game and by half-life for £10 and download counter-strike from the web site above or spend £20 and get Half-life generations pack which includes Half-Life, Counter-Strike as well as a few other Half-Life based games.

 

Only get it to 70 Si

Another game to consider is Unreal Tournement, a few years old but still popular now.

 

At university i was putting 2MB

Well it was the back bone of the North

 

get counter strike and Half life as above, also get Return to Castle Wolfenstein.. and be prepared to waste entire days killing each other LOL

 

Doom, Duke Nukem and Quake were the biz all those years ago on the original Pentium PCs. The first time I saw Quake 2 played through a 3DFX card was a revelation.

 

Counter-Strike. nuff said.

 

Half-life all variations, Unreal tournament, I'd guess Quake 3 and UT2003 probably won't run that well if you haven't got all singing and dancing PC's, maybe the likes of commmand and conquer, red alert etc, or an all time classic total annihilation, why haven't cavedog developed this any further...

 

a good game thats not shooting type is grand theft auto. good fun on network, me and my mate have played it a few times on 2 player. The 3 of you will have a good laugh im sure and i bet its only a 5er now.

 

I Could never get RA 2 to work on a network. and cant run RA because im win 2k

 

what spec id the pc ? if its old ie p2 233 or slower then play the following games should run fine :

Redalert
duke numkem 3d
age of empires

If u have a p2 300 with a fast 3d graphics card
then previous games + the following

Unreal Toournemnet
Halflife /counter strike <---- BRILLIANT on line!
screamer rally
Toca

If you have a megapc ie 1.4ghz or faster with high end graphics card then :
v8 rally challenge
Micrsoft rally
Unreal 2003T
Age of empires 2 / redalert 2
combat flight sim 3

and my fav game still of all time Conterstrike!

happy gaming!

 

Thanks guys, some really useful posts

the PC's will be PI 150's to AMD K6 2 400's so they are pretty low end unless Santa pays a visit

 

oh BTW if u have redalet2 and cant network it up try changing the mac details in the game options. ALso check that u have ipx/spx protcol running
redlalert runs fine under 2win2k + xp

 

rise of the triads is a great game , quite old though - but v.fun!

 

Super_Si

Cheers bud

Jon

 

Rise of the triad........

Ah, now there was a truly class game and was great when it was released. Spent sooo much time on that and loved it to bits. I still try to download it occasionally nowadays, just havent found a complete version yet, but haven't looked too hard tbh.

Battlefield 1942 is absolutely class online, great as multiplayer and my clan ain't too bad at it either

Cheers,

Nick

 

Did you get them mate?

Do they work ok?

cant get into email till ive downloaded Netscape.

******* **** Internet Explorer

 

Why not Doom, Quake I, Duke 3D or any of the original FPS games?