Can anyone please recommend a computer game for student "Games Club"

[burgemaster]

Can anyone please recommend any type of computer game for a student "Games Club"?

 

Pre-Requisites:

 

Obviously not any 18+ games,

No 3d acceleration, pretty low spec would be better.

Would need to be multiplayer on our network

If possible no "Console" or anything like that so they can enable GOD MODE etc etc

Free or very cheap !!!

If possible, restrictable and configurable - So they can only play with students in the room, not online

If possible have a "Camera or Spectator" that could highlight players on the projector

 

 

Thanks in advance!

Edited September 10, 2010 by witch
spelling (sorry)

[Dos_Box]

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

[Dos_Box]

Oooh!: List of freeware first-person shooters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[somabc]

OpenArena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

You could argue these are too violent though.

 

There is a cartoony version of quake which may be more acceptable.

- = World of Padman = -

 

Hedge Wars

Download | Hedgewars

 

SuperTuxCart

SuperTuxKart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

See also

List of open-source video games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edited September 9, 2010 by somabc

[sonofsanta]

I don't know if it fits all the requirements, btu I literally spent two weeks at one job doing nothing at all except playing ArmegaTron against the French guy in my office. So, so brilliant.

[Guest TheLibrarian]

FreeCiv

[daz666]

castle wolfenstein

[tom_newton]

Try freecol.org and wesnoth.org for the more strategically minded youth

[DAZZD88]

Diablo 2...preferably with the Lord of Destruction Expansion Pack.

 

Just recently got back into it and I can't believe that I haven't played it in so long. Shame on me. Anyways, it's fairly cheap and if you register it on Bethesda's website you can download the installer and you no longer need the CD to run it.

 

EDIT: As well as being online or single player, it can run over a LAN. We did this in computer club when I was at school. We dismantled cheap, brand new computers then reassembled them and set up a very basic LAN using static IPs. BTW don't think you actually need static IPs for running the game, just we had no DHCP.

Edited September 10, 2010 by DAZZD88

[Rydra]

Minecraft

 

I spent 6 months playing this at home, work, lunchtimes etc.

[3s-gtech]

Trackmania Nations/Forever, works on some old hardware (we even got it running okay on Intel 945G!), kids love it, non-violent, free.

[tb2571989]

I'll second MineCraft, been playing it for a few months now. Creative is gereat fun, although you may get the little rascal who likes to destroy instead of built.

Does require JAVA and probably 1GB RAM.

 

Other than that, OpenTTD is a good one. Could be a bit hardcore (well, it's a potentiall complex transport sim). Goes have cheats in single players but over LAN not.

[sister_annex]

+1 for Nexuiz - Home - A free open-source fast paced first person shooter (FPS) for Windows, Linux and OSX

 

although you may want to keep an eye on Xonotic - it is a new version of nexuiz which will be going into beta soon

 

Love nexuiz played it for years

[tech_guy]

We used to have Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory on the network until they banned it as being 'too violent'.......

[speckytecky]

You didn't say what age range but this seems to hit the mark with most of our kids in Golden Time Games - The Best Free Online Games Fun At Friv Games!

[simpsonj]

We were toying with the idea of putting Rome: Total War on the network, before I decided to plan a major project instead...

[win]

Go for Urban Terror. It's a totally free FPS based on the quake engine.

 

Urban Terror Downloads : Current version (4.2.020)

 

You can either create a games server yourself, or choose an external server from the list to play with others around the globe. Set it to low resolution and it will run fine.

[Bompalompalomp]

I put Re-Volt on Core 2 Duos at the end of year and had a mini lanfest at lunchtimes

It was pretty much the only old enough multiplayer game I could get SLT to agree to, Typing of the Dead and Halo were a no-go ;(

[Garacesh]

Typing of the Dead

But.. But.. Improving English skills?!

(It's a terrible, terrible game. But amusing.)

[cobra427col]

Minecraft

 

I spent 6 months playing this at home, work, lunchtimes etc.

 

 

The all consuming minecraft.. we bought this for dragon jnr's birthday.... she's not had a look in as yet..

(i'll neither confirm or deny it being my fault she hasn't played it yet)

[Bompalompalomp]

But.. But.. Improving English skills?!

(It's a terrible, terrible game. But amusing.)

 

Don't you dare badmouth that game! I won't be 'avin' it.

[ICTDirect_Dave]

Try freecol.org and wesnoth.org for the more strategically minded youth

 

Damn you Tom! Taking my suggestion away from me!

 

It is brilliant though!

[Garacesh]

I won't be 'avin' it.

u wot m8. cum say dat 2 my face init. square go like le's sort it

(Are we really doing this again?)

 

It's an amusing enough game, although the language used is rather colourful, so I do understand why SMT would have said no

[Sdrawkcab]

u wot m8. cum say dat 2 my face init. square go like le's sort it

(Are we really doing this again?)

 

It's an amusing enough game, although the language used is rather colourful, so I do understand why SMT would have said no

 

You're thinking of ToTD: Overkill which is the typing version of House of The Dead: Overkill, the game which currently holds the record for the most profanity. There's another, older version called simply "Typing Of The Dead" which is based on the House of The Dead 2 game. It's actually been edited to make it tamer compared to the arcade game iirc, the zombies have green blood and I think they've toned down some of the dialogue too. It's also freeware, which makes it doublegood for schools.

 

ToTD: Overkill is absolutely fantastic, just not appropriate for schools.

[Norphy]

Armagetron Advanced :: a Tron clone in 3D

 

Spent many a drunken hour at LAN parties playing that. Great fun!