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    Hosting a LAN in two weeks: suggest action games?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by daedal, Oct 31, 2007.

  1. daedal

    daedal Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey guys,
    I'm hosting a small LAN at my apartment in two weeks and I'm looking for a list of solid, action LAN games we could play. There will be eight of us so far.

    So far, we've got Team Fortress 2 down as our main FPS and either Company of Heroes of Command and Conquer as our RTS, but none of us seem to be able to come up with a good action game.

    We used to play Giants: Citizen Kabuto back in the day, and we're looking for a similar experience if there is anything like that out there.
     
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    SHAD0W REM0RS3 Notebook Geek

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    might wanna give halo combat evolved a shot, very good game and halo 2. you probably might not want to play either of those though, i guess its just me and my haloness.
     
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  3. daedal

    daedal Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well the Xbox360 will be running all night with Halo 3 so I think that pretty much covers it. Also have the Wii which will be running Strikers and Guitar Hero III.
     
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    try Fortress Forever ( www.fortress-forever.com)

    HL2DM is always fun with a bunch of people, but only if you're into deathmatch.
     
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    unreal tournament 3 demo
     
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    Ah nothing beats the Starcraft and Counterstrike for LAN parties. i still play these games on LAN awesome fun to be had by all!
     
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    UT99 ;)

    as someone else said couter strike is an awesome game.
     
    mattpreston11, Oct 31, 2007
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    haven't had a lan for ages, but I remember most of the times the games were always the following

    CSS, but youve got TF2 so yea that would be kewl, but noting beats the simplicity of CSS and plus there are so many custom maps and mods which make it even more worthwhile...to list a few...maps that are quite small, zombie mod, no gravity, a tweak so that when you shoot objects they fly away at amazing speeds (used to kill people) and many more.

    Warcraft III normal and with mods..particularly the Dragon ball Z mod and one which hordes of enemies keep coming and you gotta work together to destroy em.

    Unreal Tournament 2004

    Call of Duty was another alternative to CSS but not as great.
     
    blackbird, Oct 31, 2007
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