[Minch_Yoda]

when i get my dual 1.8g5 i was planning on having a christmas/new year LAN party with my friends but they all have pcs so what would some good games be that are compatible to multiplayer with each other
(any other hints help will be appreciated)

[Caesar2099]

there's probably some threads already about it but anyway...

You need to be a little more specific then that. If you want a good first person shooter then i'd suggest Call of Duty, or maybe even UT2004. If you want strategy um good luck very few of 'em work cross platform.

[Abit667]

Halo is a great game for lan parties, most of mine ended up playing Halo a majority of the time. Call of Duty can be a lot of fun, and there's always WarCraft 3/StarCraft if you get some people who are into that.

[Luca Rescigno]

Starcraft, Warcraft 3, UT 2004, Call of Duty, and Quake 3 are all excellent cross-platform games. Halo would work as well, but it requires each person on the network to have a unique CD key. It's rare that every single person attending the LAN party will have their own copy of Halo, and it's a very demanding game that doesn't run well except on the best hardware. I'd stick to system linked XBoxes if you want to play Halo.

You'll have to avoid C&C Generals and Age Of Empires, since they both use the Windows-only DirectPlay on the PC side. And of course there are a lot of games that simply aren't available for Mac. The most popular LAN party game that you can't play on the Mac is probably CounterStrike.

[deboerjo]

I feel your pain. Back when PC users had 640k barriers, DOS mode, lack of standardized networking, and VGA limitations to deal with, Macs were the gaming kings. I bought my first Mac (a 6100) specifically for LAN parties. Unfortunatly now the situation's reversed. I finally gave up on gaming on the Mac, but several of my friends still are, and here's what we play at LAN parties:

Unreal Tournament: Unfortunatly the OS X version is still in beta and not particularly stable. OS9 version runs great.
Unreal Tournament 2004
Quake 3 (there's an OSX version now)
Diablo II (There's an OSX version now)
Myth II (there's an OSX version now)

We tried Halo, but it seems every time they release a patch for either platform it breaks cross-platform networking, and last we tried it, we couldn't get it to work.

-Jon

[macaddict0001]

why hasn't anyone mentioned unreal tournament 2003 runs great on even mediocre hardware like a g4 800 with a 16 meg graphics card...

[CaptainHaddock]

My friends and I plan on having some World of Warcraft lan parties over the holidays. It'll be my first lan party as a Mac user (I recently got an iMac).

We're getting a few copies of the Collector's Edition, so that with the included guest accounts should be enough to get everyone on board. Kudos to Blizzard for making every game Mac/PC compatible from the get-go! They're almost the only gaming company that ever gets my money.

[Bookie]

Right on CaptainHaddock. WoW would be a blast with a group of amigos.

Warcraft 3 and Starcraft are 2 of my favorites. Starcraft and Warcraft 2BNE are nice because you can install spawns on all but the hosting computer, so you only need a single cd for a LAN party.

There are a lot of shooters that would work - besides those mentioned, Medal of Honor, Red Faction, No One Lives Forever 2, Jedi Knight 2.

[Homer S.]

i plaY warcrafT 3:fT on a lAn and iT waS grEaT

[NemesisEG]

At a huge LAN event, the popular FPS seems to dominate. So our last gaming event seemed to consist of UT2K4 and Battlefield : Vietnam.

Although, there's plenty to choose from cross-platform. On a smaller LAN event we had one PC sharing an internet connection. All the PCs hopped on the internet connection to a remote server, I joined using the IP address and some remote friends (unable to make the journey) joined in also.

I was surprised how easily it worked. I thought getting the Mac to see the PC shared 'net connection and then getting through all the hazzards to a server would be a nightmare. It worked first time.

Also, the complete JOY of watching everyone drag in desktops and CRTs and run all the cables and I turned up with the new PB15 and setup in 2 minutes. I'll never forget their faces.