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DannoUK · Jul 4, 2006, 01:17 PM

I am looking for games to play across an aiport network and I was wondering which people would recommend as the best. Id partic like Pool/Snooker type games or card games as well as any other massive shoot em up types. Any thoughts?

edddeduck · Jul 7, 2006, 05:39 AM

You could try Worms 3D as this is a turn based strategy / shooter / cartoon with a bit of comedy.

Anyway I would say away from games that need fast reactions as the lag over airport networks can be quite high at time and it can make playing FPS games frustrating.

Good luck in the search!

Edwin

Gossamer · Jul 7, 2006, 11:59 AM

Well, my friends and I played a lot of Warcraft 2 last weekend to reminisce. The Halo demo is free and fun, UT2004 is okay too. Look around on MacGameFiles.com, and you can probably find some good ones.

Rumor · Jul 7, 2006, 12:11 PM

Try AOE Gold, Warcraft 3, Diablo 2 or NWN. All of these are great games, though none are shooters.

poulh · Jul 28, 2006, 10:00 AM

I'll add Starcraft if your systems are a little older. A few games of hot-seat civilization running at the same time can be fun as well.

Chuckit · Jul 28, 2006, 12:40 PM

Add Starcraft whether or not your systems are old. That game is just fun.

skucera · Jul 28, 2006, 08:27 PM

UT 2k4 runs just fine on my 1ghz 17" PB G4. It ran fine out of the box and even better now that i have a gig of ram. It's good enough to play online against those PC guys with the massively tricked out systems. It's always funny to pull out my mac laptop at the lan parties at school and watch the pc guys' jaws drop that it actually plays pretty well. Especially when I frag them

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SlayerS_'BoxeR' · Jul 29, 2006, 12:11 AM

I played starcraft years ago and it was the best game ever, and still the best game for me. Since I changed to mac now I wanna get starcraft but stores don't have mac version.. sucks.

poulh · Jul 29, 2006, 12:16 AM

Originally Posted by SlayerS_'BoxeR'

I played starcraft years ago and it was the best game ever, and still the best game for me. Since I changed to mac now I wanna get starcraft but stores don't have mac version.. sucks.

the starcraft battlechest should be mac and pc

SlayerS_'BoxeR' · Jul 29, 2006, 10:37 PM

thanks man. I'll definately try that. Haven't played for like 3 years but what the hell.. thanks!

eobet · Jul 31, 2006, 01:27 PM

Originally Posted by edddeduck

You could try Worms 3D as this is a turn based strategy / shooter / cartoon with a bit of comedy.

Anyway I would say away from games that need fast reactions as the lag over airport networks can be quite high at time and it can make playing FPS games frustrating.

Good luck in the search!

Edwin

Wait, what? Are you saying that airport networks have higher lag than other wireless networks?

Should I buy a wireless Netgear or 3com router instead?

- - e r i k - - · Aug 1, 2006, 01:51 AM

He must be on crack. As long as you have 802.11g on both computers you should be fine.

macintologist · Aug 1, 2006, 06:27 PM

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