Please recommend some cheap non-FPS lan games for four players!

[skuzgib]

Trackmania!

[finlay666]

Live For Speed?

NFS series games IIRC support LAN

erm.....

strategy games OR maybe something fun like a peggle knock-out tourny

maybe guitar hero?

[Steve B]

why has no-one mentioned Dawn of War yet?!
Its fantastic for 4-player LANS!

[Dreaming]

Ok how about some racing games? Can anyone list some good ones?

flatout 2

[Optical668]

Yeh thats a great game, specialy playing with your friends on the party mode.

[Zadock]

How about some mindless action RPGs?

- Titan Quest (upto 8 players over lan)
- Diablo 2 (CLASSIC!)

Bit of Coop RTS/FPS? Most of the Rainbow 6 series have a coop mode.

System Shock 2! (FPS/RPG) thats great fun over lan, 4 people lynching a zombie with wrenches is very amusing... along the same lines there is a coop mod for the original Deus Ex and you can pick that up for £5 on white label.

StarWars Battlefront 2. Its an FPS I suppose but it can be played in 3rd person, you can drive/ fly vehicles and its a lot of fun.

I've been playing Far Cry with a few mates over Hamachi recently and that is absolutely hilarious especially the surf map... there I am looking to snipe one of my mates from the boat shed and then another one charges a speed boat up the ramp into the shed, crushes me and blows himself to kingdom come. Great fun! also £4.99 on white label.

One more option... how about Freelancer? thats coop, can be played over lan and there is a lot of potential to go exploring with your relatives.

[Fatboy40]

flatout 2

Another vote for Flatout 2 here, I play it regularly with three frineds on a LAN, much more fun than any of the Trackmania games !.

Also why has no one mentioned Grand Theft Auto 2 !, get it here for free...

Rockstar Classics - Free Downloads

... it's an excellant LAN game and something that plays beautifully on office PC's

[moogle]

really good info building up in this thread
and some nice free games to play!

[Gerrard]

Also why has no one mentioned Grand Theft Auto 2 !, get it here for free...

Rockstar Classics - Free Downloads

... it's an excellant LAN game and something that plays beautifully on office PC's

Another vote for this. Used to play the first one on the school PCs (after pulling the blanking plates off to install my CD drive!), but had desynch issues. The second one though seemd a lot more stable and even started making my own crazy maps for it. The tank battles were quite amusing!

Another game I used to play at uni was a turn based squad game. Think it was called Incubation and it was part of a larger series, but I am not sure of the name.

[Gr44]

Soldat ( SOLDAT - Homepage of the free 2d multiplayer action game ) is always a great laugh to kill an hour or 3.... net/lan playable with large numbers. Bots are built in ( if wanted ) and i _think_ you can do team games

Just remembered that one

[Fatboy40]

The tank battles were quite amusing!

Have to agree there, there's a mad dash for the tank as soon as you know that the level has one, then you just watch another players cash go through the roof

Zooming around with a stupidly fast car loaded with mines and a machine gun is brilliant.

[Workaholic]

How about some sports games like fifa, otherwise another vote for C&C, or even settlers/cultures

[TheAnimus]

Total Annihilation!

How about co-operative FPS? They out too? A bit of sven co-op perhaps?

[kalniel]

Total Annihilation!

How about co-operative FPS? They out too? A bit of sven co-op perhaps?

Yeah they're out for my purposes, but by all means suggest them for others In my case we have several FPS-haters, mostly co-ordination or motion sickness complaints I'm the only FPS liker in the group

[iranu]

Tron 2.0 - it has an absolutely insane multiplayer bike game (you know the one in the film) in it that's hilarious. Cost £5.

[2Cold Scorpio]

Freelancer makes for some interesting multiplay, especially if you have lots of time. You can pretty much be your own mercenary gang.

Empire Earth (not the crappy sequals) was always a favorite at our LAN parties too, as was Rise of Nations (both of these are RTSs with good bot AI).

Even though you said no shooters, Half-Life would be soemthing you might keep in mind, seeing as it should run on everyone involved's computer just fine (and is just plain fun).

One other game we were fond of at LAN parties, though its near impossible to find anymore, was a little stratagy game from the mid-90s called Ruthless.com. It wasn't much on graphics, and was mainly menu-driven, but it got pretty interesting as you went into it. The objective is to have your business essentially become a monopoly via increasing your R&D and market share, sabotaging your competition with 'acidents' and computer hacks, and so fourth (if you do too many 'dirty deeds', the Dept. of Justice or even the Mafia might step in). It was fun for what it was, and different as well.