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 | 2002 | 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. Now free to play. |
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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. Worms World Party has some new minor features (namely the "Worm Pot") but Worms Armageddon is strongly recommended as it is STILL being patched, with cool features like replays, custom resolution, and Windows 7 support. See http://wormsarmageddon.team17.com/main.html?page=home&area=welc |
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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 | 1993 | Pretty much invented LAN gaming. |
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Killing Floor | FPS | 2009 | Team up with up to five others against waves of zombie-ish enemies. |
| http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Armagetron_Advanced.png | Armagetron Advanced | Arcade | 2001 | 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 | Awesome tactical FPS, featuring various multiplayer modes.
Barricaded suspects: A team deathmatch, the team gains points for killing/arresting guys from the other team. VIP Escort: Everybody loves escort missions, especially for their awesome AI. This time hge can be stupid on purpose because one of the SWAT team members 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. |
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FlatOut 2 | Race/Arcade | 2006 | Racing game, both off-road and on-road tracks, comes with crashes. Has a destruction derby mode, where players try to wreck each other. |