My and my friend's have just decided to have a LAN party... using our brand new, Vista computers.
Lowest spec is: 2.2ghz dual core, 2 GB RAM, 6400 GeForce Video Card, 20x CD Drive.
We've all got network cards and wires, and I've got a modem, so that isn't the problem. The problem is: we don't have enough CDs for ANY game (other than AoE II - which I pwned them all 5v1 at last time) to be played with more than about 2 players.
So we pooled together our money... and they gave it to me to go and buy some nice games to play... What games are best for this sort of thing?
We can play just about every single game that is available atm (exceptions include Crysis, Assassin's Creed (if it's out.. I saw the specs for it a while back) and a few other brand new games.)
There's 6 of us at most (all using Vista) and we'll have to buy multiple disks of most games... We prefer Everyone Versus Everyone games (no alliances) but we occasionally team up to 3v3 or 2v4.
We already have the following games:
C&C: Tiberium Sun (6 disks)
AoE II: The Conquerors (2 disks, but you can take them out and stick 'em in diff comps)
C&C: Red Alert (6 disks)
BF 2: Complete Collection (5 disks... and we're not sure if it's possible to play over LAN)
Battle for MiddleEarth II (3 or 4 disks)
Couple of other strat games that are about 5-10 years old... oh - and Worms:Armageddon!!!
I did wonder about seeing when Halo Wars came out and getting that for PC (6 disks) and then us all playing it first time at this LAN party.... it would be interesting, but not sure when it's out, or wether it's LAN compatible.
No, we can't play over the internet, becuase 5 of our computers aren't allowed to be connected to the internet (parents won't let us 'till we're 18... so we can't "borrow" a connection anyhow.) The only person w/ internet only has it becuase he has permission from his neighbours to use their wireless internet on his laptop.. lucky little beggar