What in your opinion is the best LAN game???

[Cuiiey]

hello,

me and my friend were having a debate about what the best LAN games are. i reckon my top 5 are:

1. Halo 1
2. CoD4
3. CoD5
4. BF2
5. GRID


What do you reckon are the top lan games out?

[Leviathan41]

I think Left4Dead is the best LAN game out at the moment.

[CharmyBee]

Bolo

[Blackstar]

hello,

me and my friend were having a debate about what the best LAN games are. i reckon my top 5 are:

1. Halo 1
2. CoD4
3. CoD5
4. BF2
5. GRID


What do you reckon are the top lan games out?


Well do you mean game titles, or PC only titles? ;)

I'd put down:

1. Halo 1 / 2 / 3
2. UT 2004 / Unreal Championship
3. L4D
4. CoD4
5. CoD5

- Blackstar

[SeanChiarot]

hmmmm top 5 FPS? or just "Lan Games"?

FPS
Counter Strike Source, because at almost EVERY single lan i have ever went to this was played, and for good reason, its an amazing game!
CoD4
UT 2004
L4D
BF2

and for the "Lan Games" i would have to add Starcraft, Warcraft 3 and Civ 4..... (my buddies like RTS more then FPS, lol, so iv gotten kind of hooked to a few of em' myself....)

[||Console||]

1 ) Css
2) Css
3) TF2

[Rich'[ard]]

think he means best LAN game overall.

well at Lans, we usually play:

COD4
COD5
GRID
Red Alert (only sometimes)
we would play Halo 1 if everybody had it
and Halo 2 as well, again, if everybody had it.

[Tsnowflake]

tf2
counter strike
DOTA?

[Cuiiey]

Yeah we would play DOTA but not many people have it and nearly everyone is over the RTS games i.e RA3! I wish microsoft would release Halo 3 for PC :(

[Rich'[ard]]

Yeah we would play DOTA but not many people have it and nearly everyone is over the RTS games i.e RA3! I wish microsoft would release Halo 3 for PC :(
the probs will when a new xbox comes out.
the released halo 2 for PC about a year after the xbox release...so we can stay hopeful :)

[Cuiiey]

Man, Microsoft better not jib us off! Anyways does anyone know if battlefield 2142 is a good lan game?? Ive heard from people say that it is really good but they them selves have never played it LOL

[Goateh]

Lan games you say?

Well... my 2c would be:

Diablo II
Warcraft III/DoTA
Call of Duty 4
Starcraft
Unreal Tournament


:sn:

[Kibokun]

World in Conflict anyone?
Halo syslink
CoD4
L4D
Tribes 2 if you've got a massive group!

[SteveLord]

Any coop games + drinks + munchies.

[BenF]

1.CS:S
2.bf 1942
3.cod series
4.warcraft 3
5.UT

[GBH]

CS 1.6
COD4

[Goateh]

Any coop games + drinks + munchies.

I'd agree with that :beer:

[Rich'[ard]]

World in Conflict anyone?
Halo syslink
CoD4
L4D
Tribes 2 if you've got a massive group!
that's teh game i've been trying to think of!
man...i needa get my hands on that.

[deathman20]

Any coop games + drinks + munchies.

Indeed.

Have to say some of the best games for LAN's that I've had, mind you they are small 3-4 people.

Diablo II
Age of Empires I, II, & III
Supreme Commander
Ghost Recon/GRAW/Rainbow 6 Vegas
Sins of a Solar Empire

And any other game to play in Co-op that we have. Sure L4D will be added to the list in due time, once we get around to it.

[IR1]

Bolo

Oh snap! This dude just dropped a "BOLO" on us! Man I used to play Bolo on my parents PowerMac... omg I had a 56k connection but whenever I actually found someone to play with it was amazing... one of the first online gaming experiences for me...

[Shiggity]

Any coop games + drinks + munchies.

:clap:

RTS - Lan

1) Starcraft

2) Red Alert Command and Conquer

3) Warcraft 3

4) Age of Empires

5) The rest

FPS - Lan

1) Counterstrike 1.5 or 1.6

2) Battlefield 1942 (original) (On a side note, modern warfare vehicles are retarded and skill-less trash)

3) Quake Arena

4) Unreal Tournament

5) CS - The new one


Lol can you guys tell I haven't been to lan in a really long time? ;)

[sandyduff]

Original doom set on co-operative and on Ultra-violence (nightmare just annoyed me)... good times...

[skim32]

1. Couterstrike.. lol haven't played source yet, but I bet it's just as addicting.
2. WC3 FT: DoTa.. old but still thriving.. awesome game.. addictive as hell.
3. Starcraft: again old as hell, but still a great game.
4. CoD4 is good stuff.
5. Return to Castle Wolfenstein was another great lan game..

That's all i can think of for now..

[McTimson]

COD4
Left4Dead
Half-Life: Deathmatch
HL2: Deathmatch
The Specialists
Halo 1 was good, haven't played that in a long time.

[don'tknow]

I think Left4Dead is the best LAN game out at the moment.

Haven't tried it but I can already see how it would be a million times better in LAN than online.

Someone tries to ragequit on me, I go and smack them.

[Sp4zZ]

Haven't tried it but I can already see how it would be a million times better in LAN than online.

Someone tries to ragequit on me, I go and smack them.

lol Agree with both statements.
That's how ya do it! :santa:

[JackNSally]

Lan games you say?

Well... my 2c would be:

Diablo II
Warcraft III/DoTA
Call of Duty 4
Starcraft
Unreal Tournament


:sn:

1.CS:S
2.bf 1942
3.cod series
4.warcraft 3
5.UT

Indeed.

Have to say some of the best games for LAN's that I've had, mind you they are small 3-4 people.

Diablo II
Age of Empires I, II, & III
Supreme Commander
Ghost Recon/GRAW/Rainbow 6 Vegas
Sins of a Solar Empire

And any other game to play in Co-op that we have. Sure L4D will be added to the list in due time, once we get around to it.

:clap:

RTS - Lan

1) Starcraft

2) Red Alert Command and Conquer

3) Warcraft 3

4) Age of Empires

5) The rest

FPS - Lan

1) Counterstrike 1.5 or 1.6

2) Battlefield 1942 (original) (On a side note, modern warfare vehicles are retarded and skill-less trash)

3) Quake Arena

4) Unreal Tournament

5) CS - The new one


Lol can you guys tell I haven't been to lan in a really long time? ;)

1. Couterstrike.. lol haven't played source yet, but I bet it's just as addicting.
2. WC3 FT: DoTa.. old but still thriving.. awesome game.. addictive as hell.
3. Starcraft: again old as hell, but still a great game.
4. CoD4 is good stuff.
5. Return to Castle Wolfenstein was another great lan game..

That's all i can think of for now..

+1 for WC3, Starcraft and Diablo 2:LOD!:thup:

[pinkles]

1. Company of heroes (only if everyone is MATURE enough to understand RTS games, some kids, ugg)
2. CoD4 (CoD5 was a bust)
3. CSS!!!!





note... these were placed in no particular order :D

[SolidxSnake]

nothing beats the sound of someone screaming after getting massacred by lings...

starcraft!

CS is pretty good, but for LAN, I'd say that Unreal Tournament (Original is AWESOME) is definitely a LAN shooter.

[fr34k]

Lord of Destruction ftw! And Q3 still has it alll, even after all those years!

I stumbled over this page a few days ago: http://www.network-games-collection.com/
There's a tutorial on how to play the best game in history GTA San Andreas multiplayer. Does anyone have ever tested that?

[Tumnus]

All good suggestions, but like SolidSnake said, going to have to go with Unreal Tournament as the best LAN game.

[SuperMiguel]

CS

[WonderingSoul]

1. The original Unreal Tournament
2. Day of Defeat: Source
3. Day of Defeat
4. TF2

[darkpyro1]

I'm going to have to say my top five facorite LAN games are:

1. Starcraft
2. Halo 1
3. Unreal Tournament
4. Battlefield 2
5. CSS

[Springbok]

Personal favorites:

1. Alien vs Predator - nothing beats biting off your buddy's head
2. Team Fortress 2 - everyone can enjoy their own play style
3. Starcraft - separates the generals from the grunts
4. Call of Duty - best spawning system ever invented
5. Quake III Arena - in Q3 the mouse is attached to the cross-hair bulls-eye, not a box where your bullets *might* land

[benbaked]

I've been loving the hell out of the nazi zombies "Shi No Numa" COD:WaW map on XBL lately, probably my favorite online game right now. At lan parties, DoW: Soulstorm is the funnest RTS, before that my long-lived favorite was good old Brood War. TF2 is another fun one we've been playing at lan parties. I'm really looking forward to the new Modern Warfare 2 later this year. :attn:

[hitokiri_808]

1. Company of Heroes!
2. Battlefield 1942 Forgotten Hope
3. Left 4 Dead
4. CS Source

[OC101]

I found out that the best games =/= the best LAN party games...

Often people don't own the newer games, because they are cheap.
Then it comes down to the number of people that requires to have fun with. In my case, BF2 type of larger scaled games just are not fun with so few people that available at LAN.

They seem to like older games such as
Starcraft,
Warcraft3,
Age of empire 2,
counter-strike 1.6,
renegrade

It took a while just to get Age of Empire 3 going at our LAN parties.
It is very difficult to get any newer games going.

[Cuiiey]

Didn't know that you could play San Andreas multiplayer properly. that game always runs pixelated on my computer. Maybe i should change the video setup.

most of our lans are roughly 8-10 people, Normally we just play FPS games considering no one is into RTS anymore :( Last lan was CoD5 overnight for 8 hours.

[Batzy]

1.cod4
2.cod5
3.left for dead

[boarderjw]

What I usually play at LANs:
Rainbow Six 3 Raven Shield
CS 1.6
Unreal Tournament

[rainless]

hello,

me and my friend were having a debate about what the best LAN games are. i reckon my top 5 are:

1. Halo 1
2. CoD4
3. CoD5
4. BF2
5. GRID


What do you reckon are the top lan games out?

Halo? Sweet jesus...

I don't know what the point of all these "what's the best" this and that threads.

There's obviously as many answers to that as there are users who post to this forum. I could spend the next three paragraphs bashing your list, but I'll just come up with my own list and bash that one:

1. Warcraft III
2. UT2004
3. F.E.A.R. ...the first one.

Now Warcraft III came out right after I moved to France and... as far as I know... was more popular in French internet cafes than MS Word.

...but that's really kinda pathetic when you think about it. The ratio of women to men in France is 3:1 (roughly). And these cafes were ALWAYS filled with women. To think that such a large number of guys would've rather played Warcraft III... DISTURBS ME.

Nevertheless.. I loved the game. I never played it at a damned internet cafe though! WC3 was my post-coital cigarette: To be played only at home (and not necessarily at my home. And mostly in the nude.)

F.E.A.R. I bought in France but didn't play a single game of multi till I got back to the states. It was actually one of the first games we did here for the dearly departed "Game Nights" we had every thursday here on OCF.

I'm ready to stand on a stack of bibles and swear that the release of TF2 was the death of the game nights.

I can NOT stay interested in any SOURCE game for longer than 14 minutes. It's like pad thai to me. Once I ate too much pad thai and I haven't been able to eat any since.

7 years is too much SOURCE engine.

[rogerwillson]

Hi..
What it all comes down to at a lan is speed. Our lans usually end up including starcraft, but only about one game because it takes too long. With this in mind, I bring you two perfect lan games, crazily high speed and not to difficult to learn... if you're not a *****. For the RTS genre, there is really only one thing I can suggest: Emperor: Battle for Dune. It's incredible speed ensures that within 5 minutes of your first game's start, one player will have been annihilated. Very balanced, but very fast gameplay. For the FPS genre, I give you a free game: Warsow. It is without a doubt the fastest fps there is. It's cell shaded graphics always look very clean, if not amazing, and the space-pun style is quite interesting. But Warsow's main draw is the speed: while you may walk at a slower speed by default than quake or unreal, it is highly unlikely you will be walking: bunny hopping, strafe jumping, rocket jumping, and plasma climbing are the staples of the game. It's not many games in which you see two people moving in opposite directions at 3x walking speed have a midair no-scope sniping firefight. Definitely a valuable addition to your lan games; if you can handle it.

[jokers_greg]

can't believe SCII or Warcraft II isn't there! UT, the original, and CS for sure

[TheGreySpectre]

I would have a hard time pick a single favorite, so here is a list of my overall favorites.

Age of Kings: The Conquerers
Counterstrike Source
Natural Selection
Battlefield 2
The Hidden

[Neural Net]

Indeed.

Have to say some of the best games for LAN's that I've had, mind you they are small 3-4 people.

Diablo II
Age of Empires I, II, & III
Supreme Commander
Ghost Recon/GRAW/Rainbow 6 Vegas
Sins of a Solar Empire

And any other game to play in Co-op that we have. Sure L4D will be added to the list in due time, once we get around to it.

Definitely Supreme Commander! I'll add Dirt 2, GTA IV and Saints Row 2 to that list also.

[TF2]

STARCRAFT or TF2...