Best lan games for pc 2009

Board game. MechWarrior: Living Legends. Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine. Monday Night Combat. Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas. Open world. Natural Selection 2. Need for Speed : Underground. Need For Speed Underground 2.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2. Need for Speed: Most Wanted. Need for Speed: Shift.

Neverwinter Nights 2. Next Car Game: Wreckfest. No One Lives Forever 2. Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Wild West. Paladins: Champions of the Realm. Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain.

Pirates of the Polygon Sea. Pirates, Vikings and Knights. Pirates, Vikings and Knights II. Planetary Annihilation. Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2.

Tower Defense. Pro Evolution Soccer Project Reality: Battlefield 2. Quake II: Quad Damage. Realm of the Mad God. Red Faction: Guerrilla. Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Rise of Nations: Extended Edition. Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends. Rise of the Triad Doom edition. Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball. Sacred 2 Fallen Angel. Saints Row: The Third. Serious Sam: The First Encounter. Shaun White Snowboarding. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

Sid Meier's Civilization IV. Sid Meier's Civilization V. Sid Meier's Civilization VI. Sins of a Solar Empire. Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. Sniper Ghost Warior 2. Speedrunners Party Mode.

Star Wars Battlefront. Star Wars: Battlefront II. Star Wars: Empire at War. StarCraft: Brood War. A Dodgeball Adventure. Stronghold Crusader.

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. Team Fortress Classic. The Battle for Wesnoth. The game was developed by id Software as a direct competitor to Unreal Tournament, and collectively, both games had given rise to the arena shooter subgenre. The subgenre itself might have waned in mainstream popularity over the years, but Quake 3 Arena is still looked upon fondly by those old enough to remember it.

And its popularity extends to smaller-scale gatherings. Some of that is due to its use of the freemium model, making the game easy to get into by those who might not necessarily be into MOBAs. And while an internet connection is technically still required to access the game's servers online, its core gameplay and focus on teamwork still work very well in a LAN Party setting. Your idea of a fun time might not include running around a kitchen trying to whip up meals for a progressively rowdier crowd of restaurant patrons, but that is precisely what Overcooked is about.

Released in for Windows, PS4, and Xbox One, the game is renowned for pushing friendships and marriages to their limits with its fun but chaotic multiplayer gameplay. The multiplayer modes in the Halo games have always proven popular with fans of the series, ever since Halo: Combat Evolved made console LAN parties a thing in But since there are now seven games to choose from, settling on which one to play is a process in and of itself.

So rather than try to decide which of the classic games to play, having all of them in a single package makes it that much easier to hop from one game to the next. And while the game had originally launched with some severe matchmaking issues, it currently remains the best way to experience a quick round of Halo multiplayer with friends. The beauty of the Nintendo Switch lies in its portability.

Gone are the days when players would have to worry about bringing over their GameCubes to a friend's place - even though its nifty handle would suggest it shouldn't be that much of a hassle - just to play a few rounds of Double Dash. And out of all the games currently available in the hybrid console's ever-growing library, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the one that lends itself to a LAN party setting the most. Using the Nintendo Switch's built-in Wireless Play feature, it is possible to set up a match for up to eight players in a matter of seconds.

In fact, your guests don't even have to worry about bringing their docks or finding a spare TV, since they can just as easily keep up with the action on their individual screens. So if you are lucky enough to have a few friends with Mario Kart on their Nintendo Switches, then there is no excuse for not playing a few rounds during your next gathering. Peter Parker's adventure into the metaverse could have been so much more.

Michael Abayomi was born in Lagos, Nigeria. Here's a bit from a CinemaBlend article calling on PC gamers to accept the inevitable:. The same story cites the growth of digital sales, so it's a weird take even for the times. No need to retroactively flinch, though. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a defensive 'PC Gaming is fine' editorial hanging out somewhere in the PC Gamer mag archives. And if it exists, I'm sure it's airtight.

Now the moribund conversations have shifted to VR, an expensive platform for a niche audience with tech that, at times, feels too bulky and far-fetched to ever find safe footing. Sounds familiar. Everybody was making an MMO, or had already tried and failed. With retail sales of traditional PC games dying down, and microtransaction sales up, WoW was the golden goose of videogame profits. It was and still is a cutthroat scene. The original Defense of the Ancients Warcraft 3 mod was killing it, one of the biggest free-to-play 'unofficial' games.

I remember seeing it start as a palette cleanser between Quake matches at LAN parties, only to become the main event among my groups a few months in. The success of DotA caught the eye of the industry at large and birthed a new genre and, eventually, two of the biggest games in the world: Riot's League of Legends and Valve's Dota 2.

League of Legends was just coming onto the scene in I remember passing Riot's tiny booth at PAX and thinking it looked like garbage. Mobas were already huge, but they were about to get much, much bigger. Elsewhere, off in a quiet corner of the internet, one of PC gaming's biggest seeds was planted. The earliest development build of Minecraft released on May 17, Here's an AnandTech forum thread lamenting poorly ventilated basements full of chunky CRTs and comradery.

With the advent of always-online DRM, the gradual proliferation of high speed internet, and console services like Xbox Live steering multiplayer gaming towards remote play, the culture and industry practices were bound to change.

I worked in a university IT office where LAN parties were a weekly, sometimes nightly norm, so the news hit hard. Sure, it was possible to play together in the same room via Blizzard's servers, but it's the principle of the thing that mattered: PC gaming was supposed to be the malleable, open-ended platform, not an altar to corporate control.

But we didn't wholly reject online multiplayer, we just wanted it all. PC gamers are picky bastards. As for online gaming, there was a time before Discord. I know, it shouldn't feel like ages ago. In , online comms weren't so simple, except they were depending on who you asked. VoiP lived through Ventrilo and Teamspeak, barebones applications that required hosting servers locally.

To connect and talk, you'd need to know each server's network information, plugging in network addresses and passwords rather than clicking on a server invite link. Ventrilo is still looking old as hell I miss those ugly grey boxes but Teamspeak's since gone the Discord route, at least visually. This all feels strange to write, as if I wasn't using these programs regularly a few years ago, now describing the act of hosting and connecting to private servers as some arcane process.

Just another testament to how quickly PC gaming changes. If we weren't talking to people while playing, we were dinking around at work and talking to internet strangers about gaming. For the better part of the '00s, Reddit wasn't the go-to for new gaming communities, aggregate news, or meme generation—Digg was all the rage, functioning a lot like Reddit does today, aggregating memes, news, and discussions based on user voting around specific interests, PC gaming included.

Reddit was mostly focused on tech news aggregation site until , when it introduced subreddits. Hardware-heads hung out on Reddit before then, but it would be a few years before gaming culture at large truly wormed its way in, though Digg's botched V4 redesign scooted things along.

Aggregate site comment sections were still new blood and plenty of gaming forums still housed vibrant communities, just as many do today. Will VR finally catch on? Are more launchers in our future? What new genres will sprout up? How will new technology change the games we play? How much better can graphics and simulations actually get?

Will Riot become the new Blizzard? How will the Steam and Epic Store showdown shake out? Let us know what you think. As for us? Hard to say, but we'll be trying anyway. Stick around PC Gamer through December and into the new year while we continue to reflect on the last decade in PC gaming in order to make informed, perfectly accurate don't quote me on this in 10 years predictions about the next decade in this lovely hobby.

My bet? We'll play our PC games in flying cars and PCs will double as chocolate cake that you can eat and doesn't make you gain weight. James is stuck in an endless loop, playing the Dark Souls games on repeat until Elden Ring and Silksong set him free. He's a truffle pig for indie horror and weird FPS games too, seeking out games that actively hurt to play.