best 4-player games?

[J T]

Goldeneye

[fast]

All version of Mario Tennis are fun. The first is usually lauded as the most competitive, the latest is my prefered since it is simply alot of fun and great for newbies.

Mario Golf is fairly good across the board. Ive not heard, or had to much to say about, them. Though I personally wait until a Wii version comes out... Thats just me.

[Hatta]

Warlords for the Atari 2600! It's like 4 player competitive breakout. Defend your corner while breaking into the other player's. Good stuff.

[kgcarini]

Battle Tanx Global Assault (normal Battle Tanx is only two player)

This is an amazing multiplayer game. I can't tell you how many hours I played that game in college!

[Luke]

Warlords for the Atari 2600! It's like 4 player competitive breakout. Defend your corner while breaking into the other player's. Good stuff.

Great call.
Warlords and Combat introduced me to multiplayer gaming.

[newt42]

Wii:
Rayman Raving Rabbids (The one with all the minigames.)
Warioware Inc.: Smooth Moves (Can also go up to 12 players. Great party game.)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (If you're a fan...)

N64:
The New Tetris (You probably don't need this, but I still love it anyway.)
Super Smash Bros. (The nostalgic simplicity makes for a great 4-player game.)

[lisalover1]

The Mario Party games are great; pretty much all Mario N64 games, minus Super Mario 64, had multiplayer, and good multiplayer at that. I think the best multiplayer system is the Saturn, though. This year for a party at school, I'm hooking up my Saturn with 10 controllers to a projector in the gym, and playing Saturn Bomberman. It's going to reek of awesome.

[RadarScope1]

I'd add Super Off Road for NES (there's a SNES version, but I don't think it's 4 player) and pretty much any Bomberman game.

[crux]

If I could only have three multiplayer games, I would likely choose Warlords for 2600, Pac-Man Vs. for Gamecube, and the third option would be a tie between Saturn Bomberman and Four Swords Adventure for Gamecube. While Warlods, Pac-Man Vs. and Saturn Bomberman have endless replayability, Four Swords' replayability diminishes greatly after the first playthrough.

However, Four Swords is so utterly unique in that it was built from the ground with the idea of four-player co-op, conceptualized by multiplayer puzzles instead of multiplayer difficulty (like, say, Left 4 Dead), that it deserves recognition. If only to remind developers that online capabilities exist in every current gen console; make more co-op games, YOU IDIOTS.

As an aside, I never realized Micro Machines could feature up to eight players at the same time by sharing pads. I'm definitely going to have to pick up a version. Which is the best version to go for?

I have a fascination for multiplayer games, especially those that feature more than four players, which only ranks behind my fascination for shmups and novelty controllers. I'm not sure if I can think of all of them, but Saturn is the easiest to take a look at, since there's an article here on Racketboy: http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2006/02/ ... multi.html

There's also a FIFA soccer game for 3DO with six players, and I know there's a handful of games for PS2 that go up to eight players (NBA Street comes to mind). In fact, that's all I can think of. Anyone else know of any five or more player games throughout the gaming generations?

NBA Jam is my favorite multiplayer sports game (I like the Jaguar version for the faster load times), and I used to be a big fan of NFL Blitz (I'm otherwise not a football fan - or a basketball fan). I'd have to go through my games to give more recommendations.

[J T]

Fuzion Frenzy was a great party game for Xbox.

Also, Halo and Halo 2 are good fun if you get several X-boxes and televisions linked together so you can't see your opponents screens, but are still close enough to trash talk. I used to play with a group of well matched players and we had a blast.