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So you say you're tired at me breaking everyone's balls about playing the same 3 coop games over and over. So you say that "Well Im sorry we dont have $3000 PCs to play the latest games on." So you say, "Moo, I want your man babies." Now you dont have to say any of that anymore, for I have compiled a list of my top choices for crossplatform cooperative multiplayer gaming. Lets move right along to the games!
Dungeon Siege - "Insert Fantasy Siege referance here"
http://www.macsoftgames.com/products/dungeon siege/MacSoft-DS-page.html
"Diablo in 3D", is how everyone tends to describe this game. They're mostly right, but tend to leave out why the 3D part is so good. Dungeon Siege is an action RPG hack n slasher that lets you and up to 8 buddies roam the land and vanquish evil wherever you see it. Thanks to the excellent graphics, Dungeon Siege does an excellent job of drawing you into the world, and the fully rotatable camera lets you observe things from all angles.
Instead of having distinct classes like in Diablo, Dungeon Siege simply has 4 skills that you can build up; Melee Weapons, Ranged Weapons, Combat Magic, and Nature Magic. The more you use a skill, the more it increases. This lets your character develop exactly how you choose to play him, which is great for those of us who can never seem to find the right class that fits our playing style. If you're playing single player, you can have other party members that run on AI scripts, or you could opt to try to control all of them at once. Multiplayer, however, makes you rely entirely on you and your friends to beat back the evil, only allowing useful pack mules to hold your loot join you.
Simple quests, but excellent enviroments to traverse while doing them. Simple combat, but it heavily relies on party members to cooperate to win. I highly reccomend this game if you're tired of doing the same 5 acts over and over in Diablo 2.
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast - "You mean Dark Forces 3?"
http://www.aspyr.com/products.php?p product id=14
So you've bought Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and you enjoy the role playing aspect, but you still crave the ability to go crazygonuts on a squad of Stormtroopers, choke out an Imperial commander, and throw lightning at multiple dark jedis as you leap from platform to platform. This game lets you do all of that, and more.
My personal favorite action game of 2002, Jedi Outcast is the sequel to the highly popular action/rpg Jedi Knight... which was also the sequel to the highly popular FPS Dark Forces. You resume the role of Kyle Katarn, mercenary and former jedi, flying around the galaxy with his fine woman, Jan Ors. Kyle is like if Han Solo was a jedi, but had less sex with his copilot. Kyle alone knows the secret location of The Valley of the Jedi, a magical place that allows anyone who enters it to be blessed with the powers of the force. Quite the thing you dont want falling into the wrong hands... which is right where it ends up. Suffice to say, you'll blast lots of Stormtroopers, man a blaster turret against some angry Imperial AT-STs, and retrieve your lightsaber and remaster the ways of the force to kick some ass once again.
The lightsaber fights you'll be having with the enemy jedi you encounter will be fast and furious, and will require you to use your force powers and your mad saber skills to defeat some of the more powerful ones. At higher difficulties, enemy jedi battles are quite intense, some lasting a few minutes.
The multiplayer has the standard gametypes you'd find in an FPS game, such as Free For All, Team deathmatch, and Capture the Flag, only with lightsabers and force powers! You can choose to be a light or dark jedi, and can place points into the force powers you wish to use. I tend to play as a Light Jedi with all of my points in lightsaber skills and jump, allowing me to escape quickly once the battle starts to turn against me. Of course, you could opt to play a game without lightsabers or force powers, or even games where other weapons arent availible to you. Unless a Jedi has put points into lightsaber defense and even force push, he'll find himself having a hard time defeating someone who's well equipped with rocket launchers, thermal detonators, and heavy blaster repeaters. And yes, for those of you who are wondering, there is a code that lets you use a double sided lightsaber in multiplayer.
On top of all of this, the multiplayer has support for up to 12 bots, so in case you just want you and some friends to see how you can do against an enemy team of Jedi who are being controled by machines... you have that option.
No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M's way - "I liked Nolf. He was a good kid."
http://www.macplay.com/games/nolf2.php
Not out yet for Mac at the writing of this article, but it will be out soon enough. No One Lives Forever 2 is, obviously, the sequal to the popular No One Lives Forever, a retro 60's FPS that has you as Cate Archer, secret agent and sexy gal, against the generic evil corporation that wants to take over the world, H.A.R.M. As a spy, you can try to do levels as stealthly as possible sticking to melee and silent weapons, or just pick up an assault rifle and run in blasting. You'll also get a lot of cool girly gadgets like lipstick stunguns, compact mirror code breakers, and perfume that has the wonderful ability to dispose of bodies.
Needless to say, NOLF2 pokes of fun is poked at the whole spy genre, and the game has a lot of witty dialouge to add in extra entertainment. It also has a cooperative multiplayer campaign that, while shorter than the single player game, is long enough to last several sessions. Excellent graphics, entertaining plot and wonderful voice overs makes this game a no-brainer. If you liked Goldeneye or Deus Ex, or any kind of spy junk (even Austin Powers), then this is deffinately worth picking up.
STAR WARS GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS & CLONE CAMPAIGNS Expansion - "Age of Imperial Emipires."
http://www.aspyr.com/products.php?p product id=20
This game is sort of like a professional total conversion to the Age of Empires 2 engine. Rather than heavy calvary and crossbowmen, you've got AT-STs and Wookie Bowcasters. There are six different factions you can play as in Galactic Battlegrounds; Rebellion, Empire, Wookies, Naboo, Gungans, and the Trade Federation. The Clone Campaigns addon allows you to play as the Confederacy and Republic armies that made their apperance in Episode 2. Each race has unique apperances and strong advantages which seperate them from the other races. Each race gets their own campaigns, which feature plots that are not nessicarily tied together, but also arent the same things you've seen in the movies either.
Excellently tough AI and lots of options for multiplayer makes this game great when fighting friends or those blasted machines. Reccomended if you liked the Age of Empire games, or just tired of Starcraft and hated Warcraft 3. |
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