Your faviourate multiplayer game. (non-mmo)

[Jekht]

I felt like seeing what multiplayer game was everyone's fave.

It can be a retro game, but it has to be a game you can see yourself playing today as well as yester-year. Also try and go for something original other than CS source.

As an example, I will do my fave non MMO, which I still find myself loading up! Please do it in a similar format.

Game: Jedi Knight Accademy
Average server size: 16 players
Type: First person shooter with third person lightsaber duelling.
Why do I like it?: It's a social game, where you can go just to talk, yet you can also have lightsaber or sword duels. Your RSI can wallrun, wallhop, jump ridiculously high into the air, throw a lightsaber and have it return, switch to first person and use guns, and pull off amazingly unique combos and moves.
The downside (aka why I don't play it as much as I used to): Primarily requires a community of like minded players. Alot players nowadays glitch quite badly, which can ruin the fun and atmosphere of the game (when you see a player attack like some form of spinning top)

[Twaggy]

I'm with you Je, JKA is the most fun I have played.

[NovaBlack]

Game:
Battlefield 2

Average server size:
64 player german server FTW!!

Type:
First person shooter with unlockable weapons as you gain points.

AND RAGDOLL CORPSES!

Why do I like it?:
BOOM HEADSHOT!! BOOOM HEEEADDDSSHOOOT!!! need i say more??.if you ever want a laugh you should see me n DS playin this together. man i have never screamed so much at other ppl. and after 60 hours game time clocked up im STILL Boom Headshottin ppl. it totally gives me sweaty hand syndrome to the point i cant hold the mouse. i mean come on. german server. teach them how us brits kick ass. no better feelin than comin 1st or 2nd in a round out of 64 other human beings. man it rocks. if u dont like city maps like strike on karkhand or Sharqi peninsula then shame on you. i mean watchin one well placed grenade toss 5 ragdoll krauts (no offence) 20 foot into the air is genius!!

[0bitus]

Im with J and twag...but only i prefer JK2...FAR more control over the sabers.

[Witchburner]

/amkiss Obitus

jedi outcast ftw no question , grip-kicking noobs is still more fun than giving a punt in mxo =O

[0bitus]

/amkiss Obitus

jedi outcast ftw no question , grip-kicking noobs is still more fun than giving a punt in mxo =O

Agreed, gripping them, moving them and dropping them off a ledge :D

That was back in the old 56k days.

[savity]

Still thinking of my favourite - but as a teaser - my most frustrating....

SHREK 2..... (PS2)

Type: 4 player collaborative platformer

Why is it frustrating:
Cos my 6 year old loves the game. He wants me to play along with him - but doesn't listen to an older, experienced player. For instance, one of the parts is a time-limited collection phase. You need to rush about the area collecting stuff. Unfortunately all players have to be on-screen at the same time so you have to pretty much stick close to each other. Does he do this? does he fek. I'm there screaming at him - "Come over here" - and he just looks at me laughing.......

[Obi]

gotta agree with jek, jka with the old community ftw

[0bitus]

Really thought jk2 was far better, i never felt really incontrol of the saber in jka >.< so i barely played it lol.

[Jekht]

It was tweaked slightly in the 1.1 patch, and after abit of playing you get used to it. I originally agreed, however if you try jka for abit longer, you'll find it just as good all round. tbh it's really like moving from tekken 3 to tekken 4... just requires abit of patience.

[BakuraRyou]

Game: Worms Armageddon
Average server size: n/a really, 2-6 but it was all on WormNet
Genre: Turn based strategy
Why do I like it? Just a great game. A match could be a simple 5 minute bazookafest or a 2 hour(!) complex demonstration in the laws of physics and military strategies! Absolutely every game was different thanks to randomly generated maps, the secret weapons were hilarious, great art style, great ambient music. Still just as playable now as it was 7 years ago. Shame there's only about 15 people left on ye olde WormNet, and they're probably folks who have died at their keyboards :P In this game I've probably racked up tenfold the amount of time I've spent on MxO, shame Xfire wasn't around back then!
The downside: No one plays anymore :( Aside from LAN parties I haven't played a multiplayer game in nearly 2 years.

Too many good console multiplayer games to mention.

[NovaBlack]

WORMS ARMAGEDDON! OMFG!! i totally forgot how much that rox! gonna go find my old copy now!! man i played that game to death! i was the king!

[Dragonstorm]

JKII was awsome, although I enjoyed it more for the killing millions and melons of Stormies in SP, than the MP games, hehe. God I miss that game :P

I guess I'll go with Nova, cause atm BF2 is my most played Non-MMOG. And yes, we do still scream at the other players, although for me, Frogy French-speaking Bastard 64 plyr servers ftw :P
Oh, and not to mention when you are able to see through walls, have a permenant UAV, turn off fog and have auto-aim, it gets fun if you want to REALLY piss someone off and pick on a certain player you know in RL, hehe... Not that I'd ever do that...

*looks around suspiciously*

[Tytanya]

I'm a big fan of Jedi Academy but I think my fave none online multiplayer games would return to the console/arcade world....

Discounting competitive fighting games which are my true love.
Streets of rage (only 2 players but such fun particularly at the end)
Super Monkey ball (great for 4 players)
Deathrow (much overlooked xbox title great for system link play...would make a great mmo rpg too)
Kingpin (my first real fps and the first online game i ever played)

[0bitus]

Think my first online game was Unreal Tournament. If only i had broadband then :(

[Caber]

My fav multi player game for tons of fun for me and a few mates has to be Timesplitters.
4 player capture the bag on the biggest TV you can find, many laughs playing that :)

[Twaggy]

Red Faction for PS2

2 - 4 player, multiplayer maps.

Not only did I so like to kill my mates with the precision rifle (so fun) but I liked killing em through a wall with the rail gun;) Enjoyed it more with the lobby map.....blow up a wall to get to the roof (yes geo-mod) and fire photon kicks everyone's ass in one explosion move rocket launcher....or I would pick em off with the rail gun:P Also enjoyed the cave map with the stone bridges.....kill you friend? blow bridge up!:D

[savity]

OK so I've had a think.....

I've split it into two. Current and Past.

I'm a sports person. I have never really liked FPS and the only multiplayer FPS I have played was Unreal Tournament back in 1998? on a 33K dialup connection on a pile of wank PC. Maybe that put me off - so no FPS shooters in my favourites.

My favourite Past multiplayer game was 16 years ago. Lotus Esprit Challenge on the Amiga. I was at University at the time - the Amiga was the platform of choice for our flat - well one of us had an Atari ST - but he was always a bit weird :D . As microelectronics students we made our own LAN out of buckets and bolts and hooked up our Amigas to play multiplayer full screen LOTUS ESPRIT Challenge. It was a frustrating game - hard, unforgiving, pretty crap in single player - but changed into the most fun you can have with a joystick like this when hooked up to another real person:

http://www.amiga.org/modules/myalbum/photos/thumbs/2112.jpg

We played for hours (well from getting home after lectures - til the pub opened). I wouldn't want to play it now cos it would likely destroy the memories I have.


My favourite current multiplayer is PES (4 or 5 - both as much fun multiplayer). Far too complex and time consuming for a single player experience (I now have sensible soccer for that) - PES comes into it's own with 7 mates and a couple of multitaps. 4 players on each side trying to work together - it negates any advantage any expert players might have due to the likliehood that at least one player on their team has no idea what all the buttons do. Stick the referee on his most harsh setting and prepare for hilarity as the red cards start being brandished due to over-exuberant sliding tackles. Great fun to play with just me and my son too - playing collaboratively and trying to get him to pass to me as I stand with an open goal in front of me - while his intention is to try dribble the ball all the way into the goal.. "Press X - press X - press X" is all I seem to say....

Also I have to mention the fun that is BUZZ! Music Quiz.... Beer, nibbles and a fierce competitive nature to win at all costs - arguments galore and fights almost breaking out. Great fun....:D

[BakuraRyou]

Red Faction for PS2

rofl yeah, simulate a scintillating 2800 baud modem online gaming experience thanks to the frame rate :>

[Renzouken]

Five games you need to have when mates are round for a bash on the beer, the smoke, the chinise and the PS2.

Tekken 5 (It's Tekken, 'nuff said)
Fifa Street 2 (Sweet soundtrack, sweet graphics, sweet special moves and well... Just such a laugh multiplayer. If real footy was like this maybe I'd be interested)
Fight Night 2006 (Awesome game, hard to work out at first but totally unique system of controll over the fighters, get the timing right and it's good display of skill between participants)
Timesplitters 2 (Reason Cabe said)
Street Fighter (Can't remember the version, though any version will do! Guaranteed to put the harshest blisters you've ever had on that little crack on the joint of your thumbs, fecking Haidoken! Fecking D-Pad!)

[G0rF]

TFC.

Nuff said.

[Denary]

lol a bit of a list

Half Life Source DM
Half Life 2 DM
and Raven Shield

ok you've probably seen the HL series but Raven shield is a tom clancy game which is like shooting terro's in the ass :) my fave past time other than shooting ILLFACE in the ass