Guest nickcornaglia Posted October 23, 2003 Report Posted October 23, 2003 The last time I played a networked game was about 5-6 years ago. My office had two networks. A PC based LAN which would not allow us to network games without admin privledges. So we played Marathon and Duke Nukem on the peer-peer MAC Network. We used to play from after work until 2, 3, 4:00am. It was a great time and we are now trying to revive that. We're in the same situation network-wise...so we're probably going to need to play on the MACs again. As I'm clueless about MACs and todays world of LAN Party Gaming....what would be a good shoot-em-up kill everybody game to play on the MACs with that kind of setup. All of the MACs (8 of them) are G5s, I believe as they have all been recently replaced. There may be 1 or 2 G4s remaining. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
Guest fraser Posted October 23, 2003 Report Posted October 23, 2003 If you give up on the Macs and decide to use PCs, I'd recommend Day Of Defeat. It's a free WW2 Half Life mod, so you can get copies of Half-Life on platimum for about 10 quid, and as it's based of HL, you don't need a beast of a machine to play it. I had it running great on a 900MHz laptop, fitted with S3's crummyest mobile 3D card at the time (8 meg). The game itself is very very good, with an emphasis on realism. Get shot one or two times, you are dead, none of this massive life bar thing that ruins most other online games (IMHO)
Guest nickcornaglia Posted October 25, 2003 Report Posted October 25, 2003 I think we're stuck with the Mac's at the office...our PCs are locked down pretty tightly by those pains in IS.
Guest fraser Posted October 25, 2003 Report Posted October 25, 2003 Are they interested in games? Could persude them to install a game for you if they get an invite to play. :wink:
Guest cpt_andy Posted October 26, 2003 Report Posted October 26, 2003 I used to play Unreal Tournament on the macs we had at school. It ran reasonably well on old-style iMacs, so should have no problems on G5s. There is a demo available online. The great thing about UT was that PCs could join the same game as the macs, if you wanted to use a laptop, for example. Return to Castle Wolfenstein was also a good MP game we played. Andy
Guest nickcornaglia Posted October 26, 2003 Report Posted October 26, 2003 Thanks, I'll look into them this week. :)
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