Multiplayer games best played with a small group of like-minded people you can kick in the balls after losing.
The List
| Picture | Title | Genre | Year Released | Description |
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Heroes of Might and Magic III | TBS | 1999 |
For extensive sessions. Scenarios can and will take hours, which just makes winning more rewarding. The game has aged pretty well. |
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Starcraft | RTS | 1999 | Make sure to keep the South Korean exchange student away while you're playing. |
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Warcraft III | RTS | Best game in the Warcraft series, 4 races to choose from, quite micro intensive. Heroes and creeping are everything in Warcraft. Now go pwn some undead ass. | |
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Team Fortress 2 | FPS | 2007 | Not too hard to pick up, but has lots of tactical depth. The team-based gameplay is involving to everyone around. |
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Worms Armageddon | Artillery Game | 1999 | A bunch of worms and a wide arsenal of weapons equals guaranteed fun. The amusing blunders will teach you schadenfreude but also not to laugh too soon. |
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Diablo II | Action RPG | 2000 |
PvP over LAN works well if you're the same level, and co-op makes grinding WAY more interesting. |
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System Shock 2 | FPS/RPG | 1999 | Remember how fucking scary the singleplayer was? Well, multiplayer is a bit different this time. Now each player can specialize in one particular sector, and you help each other out. Great fun. |
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Myth II | RTS | 1997 | Physics based RTS, big learning curve, lots of mods/addons. |
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Doom | FPS | Pretty much invented LAN gaming. | |
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Killing Floor | FPS | Team up with up to five others against waves of zombie-ish enemies. | |
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Armagetron Advanced |
Arcade |
2000 | Tron clone in 3D. Cycles (bikes) try to core dump each other to win, other game modes include fort defense, sumo etc..Has some popularity today and development hasn't stopped |
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Quake III Arena | FPS | 1999 | Great and simple FPS that should work flawlessly on any machine. It's fast and fun |
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SWAT 4 | FPS | 2005 |
Awsome tactical FPS, featuring various multiplayer modes Barricaded suspects: A team deathmatch, the team gains points for killing/arreesting guys from the other team VIP Escort: Everybody loves escort missions, especially for the awesome ai they AI. This time hge can be stupid on purpose because one of the SWAT team memmbers is chosen to be a VIP, the team has to escort the VIP to the extraction point, while the suspects try to arrest the VIP and hold him for 2 mins before executing him. Rapid deployment: OMG JC co-op: Remember that awesome single player campaign? Yeah, now it's time to bro-op with friends through it There's an expansion which adds more shit like being able to play on custom levels and having 10-men-two-team co-operation missions. |
