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Holiday family LAN party game suggestions?

mrjoltcola

mrjoltcola

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I have some family coming in for Christmas, and usually my nephews like to invade my home office and look at my hardware and tell me I should run some cool games on it. I want to setup a little fun this year for once.

I have 4 desks and 3 good rigs (see my sig), and I'm putting together a 4th box as we speak that should be game capable. Have 2 rigs with 30" and will have two with 24" 1920x1200.

So since I'm pretty much clueless about multiplayer gaming these days, I need some recommendations from the experts. Looking for multiplayer games that we can ideally run a local server with. Last game I played multiplayer was Quake 3 Arena. All I've played lately is Crysis II and BF3.

1) Good mature family friendly game - Doesn't have to be rated G / Care Bears, but no Zombie games. Though, I do know what some of my nephews play, I think they have BF3 for the console; I don't want the in-laws frowning either, so I want to keep it as clean as possible. Is there a way to turn off the language, btw? I think the kids range from about 10yrs up to college age. If not first person shooter, maybe a dogfight or strategy game?

2) Local server, if possible? I have two copies of BF3, but we have to connect online. Are all EA games like that? I also have Crysis & Crysis II, but never tried multiplayer.

3) Hopefully something I can install from the same media, and not require me to signup 4 different Steam / Origin accounts, etc.

Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks!
 
Quake live, its free and you do not have to worry about everyone having a steam account.

Some other games I would suggest, Quake, Quake II, Quake III, Painkiller, Serious Sam. Quake did not have a cd key, while everything from Quake II did. I am not sure if painkiller has a CD key, I bought it on steam.

There is always Doom with something like the JDoom or ZDoom modification.
 
Let's not forget Unreal Tournament 2004, pretty friendly for LAN setups and a blast to play with people in the same room, and no over-the-top violence, some gibs won't hurt feelings around much. Some good old CTF or all-out co-operation against A.Is in Invasion, plenty of fun to be had with UT2004 in my opinion.
 
Zenoth said:
Let's not forget Unreal Tournament 2004, pretty friendly for LAN setups and a blast to play with people in the same room, and no over-the-top violence, some gibs won't hurt feelings around much. Some good old CTF or all-out co-operation against A.Is in Invasion, plenty of fun to be had with UT2004 in my opinion.
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And only $5 for a DRM-free version from GOG right now.
 
No zombie games? 🙁

Killing floor would be fun.

Edit: Errrr... nevermind, there's constant phallic innuendo by the trader girl.

Urban Terror is free and fast paced.
 
My family used to do this. All the uncles and cousins would bring their PC's over and play Q2 or HL mods all night. And I literally mean all night...until the sun came out.

What you could do is play TF2 on the LAN, and play against other people online.
 
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