club gaming

[Brent99]

Right, so the schools just spent around 50k kitting out a new room, HDMI projectors/smart board/ tables/ chairs/ Gigabit switches etc/around 25k was spent on 32 New Dell XPS 420's; Q6600 processors and a ATI 2600Xt,2gig ram etc. the boss is hoping to set it up as a gaming club, anybody got any ideas for games baring in mind age rating and the fact computer spec wont matter, money for software is also not a problem.

 

Ive already looked at a few other threads mentioning quake and some older games, But with the Spec of the machines, a few more recent games might help get the moneys worth out of these computers.

 

At the moment the only game installed is Star Wars Battfront 2 as its a PG title.

 

Will be grateful for any help, thanks.

[webman]

Nexuiz - A free open-source fast paced first person shooter (FPS) for Windows, Linux and OSX

[Brent99]

Thanks,

 

looks like a pretty decent lan game gonna give it a download now any other idea's?

[Quackers]

World of Padman is free and uses the Quake III Engine. Edited September 12, 2008 by Quackers

[thesk8rjesus]

What sort of games are you looking for:

 

FPS

MMOFPS

Racing

RPG

MMORPG

Arcade

Puzzlers

[clarky2k3]

racing games? Fifa, PES, Warcraft III, Portal Edited September 12, 2008 by clarky2k3

[Brent99]

mmo's are out of the question seing as they will only be able to see the Network as far as the Lan, i guess any game, that isnt too difficult to pickup and will entertain some teens for 45 mins. A racing game that could be used over the lan for Tornements Etc sounds pretty good.

[thesk8rjesus]

Halo,

Halo 2,

Toca Race Driver 3,

BattleField 2,

Battlefield 1942 any of them,

Battlefield Vietnam,

Star Wars Jedi knight academy,

Freelancer,

Starlancer,

Warcraft 2 & 3,

Command and Conquer Series,

Crysis either of them,

Supreme Commander,

Call of Duty 3 upwards,

Medal Of Honour any of them,

Lego Star Wars

[matt40k]

Get a Source license. They do a "lan" license. You'll have to had a word with the LEA about opening ports (i guess)

[Brent99]

thanks, thats plenty to get started with,

[sparkeh]

So how do I come work at your school then?

[Brent99]

oo im guessing u'll change ure mind when u arrive

 

Our network is a rather nasty mess

 

but we could open the gates of hell and let you in if you wish

[thesk8rjesus]

We actually have a games club running at the momment and there a few of the games that we are running on ours they have seemed to the favourites.

[tom_newton]

Get em learning something: freecol.org

 

also, for nice gfx cards... science teachers will love http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

[Sylv3r]

oo im guessing u'll change ure mind when u arrive

 

Our network is a rather nasty mess

 

but we could open the gates of hell and let you in if you wish

 

Strange to here you network is in a mess, when you have just spent £50k on one room.

[maniac]

Get yourself a few copies of some of the games in the Myst series, they are the biggest selling video games of all time after all, and only £4.99 a copy. Fair enough it's not going to push your machines to their limits, but there are hours of fun to be had looking round the MYST worlds, and amazingly even though no one gets killed, and the game play is quite sedate, the kids love it as it's a bit different to the general type of games being rolled out these days. Tim Rylands even won a BECTA award for it's use in teaching literacy, so in that sense it's almost approved by BECTA!

 

Mike.

[Pete10141748]

Some of the staff here use Myst (and URU: Ages beyond myst too) to teach some literacy, I have to say at first I was skeptical about how a game could be used to teach english, but they do some good things with so fair play to them!