The essence of cooperative multiplayer
gaming is that of "working together
with friends to solve the single player game." Accordingly, the term
"coop
games" as used herein means games which support simultaneous cooperative
network play over the course of the main single-player campaign, or at
least
individual scenarios thereof.
It does *not* include the more common
FPS team vs team deathmatch or
capture-the-flag styles of multiplay, where one team may be composed
entirely of bots and the other of cooperative players (e.g. Unreal
Tournament, Battlefield 1942, Joint Operations etc).
To be included, strategy games must support
full alliance options, where two
or more human players with separate empires can pool resources, share
cities, engage in trade etc, and cooperate against an AI-run empire or
more
than one.
* = recommended/popular
Recent additions
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2004-09-30 Added Fair Strike, Emperor: Battle For Dune, clarified NOLF2
and
C&C entries (Ray Martineau)
2004-09-27 Added Doom 3 coop mod, Far Cry coop mod, LOMAC, Sum Of All
Fears,
Nitro Family, Will Rock, Deus Ex coop mod, Rune coop mod (Raymond Martineau,
Antti)
2004-02-08 Added Incubation to Strategy/Tactics (Mike Mendelsohn)
2004-02-14 Added Age of Empires 1-2, Age of Mythology, Empires Dawn of
the
Modern World, American Conquest, Starwars Galactic Battlegrounds + Clone
Wars, Empire Earth, Rise of Nations, Command and Conquer (various editions)
and Axis and Allies (Aaron Johnson).
2004-04-07 Sacred
RPGs
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* Baldur's Gate 1-2 + expansions
Darkstone
* Diablo 1-2
Heroes of Might & Magic 3
* Icewind Dale
* Neverwinter Nights
Nox (with 20+ meg "Quest" patch)
Throne Of Darkness
Pool Of Radiance 2: Ruins of Myth Dranor
Sacred (3-player coop campaign)
Vampire: The Masquerade
Flight Sims
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Apache Havoc
Battle Of Britain
Commanche Gold
Enemy Engaged Commanche Hokum
* European Air War
Eurofighter Typhoon
Fair Strike
F22 Lighting 3 (over Novaworld only)
* Falcon 4
* Flanker 2 (Strongly recalls FA-18 Interceptor on the Amiga)
* IL-2 Sturmovik
Janes FA-18
Janes USAF
Longbow 1+2
Lock On: Modern Air Combat (LOMAC)
Mig Alley
Total Air War
WW2 Fighters
First Person Shooters
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Alien vs Predator ("coop" limited to fighting off endless waves
of
respawning monsters in small DM-style maps)
Blood
Daikatana
Delta Force 1-3
Deus Ex (with coop mod)
Doom 1-3 (latter requires doom3_coop mod)
Duke Nukem 3D
Far Cry (with coop mod)
Ghost Recon
* Half Life (with Sven Coop mod)
Heretic 1-2
Hexen 1-2
Hidden & Dangerous
Klingon Honor Guard
* Operation Flashpoint
Quake 1-2
Nitro Family
No One Lives Forever 2 (limited coop on selected maps)
* Rainbow Six 1, 2 (Rogue Spear) & 3 (Raven Shield)
Redneck Rampage
Rune (with coop mod)
Serious Sam 1-2nd
Shadow Warrior
Sum Of All Fears
* SWAT 3 Elite Edition
* System Shock 2
Unreal
Vietcong + expansions (limited coop on certain maps)
Will Rock
Strategy/Tactics
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Age of Empires 1-2 + expansions
Age of Empires: Conquerors
Age of Mythology
American Conquest
Axis and Allies
Command & Conquer: Red Alert (and later editions)
Commandos
Cybermercs
Deadlock 2
Emperor: Battle For Dune
Empire Earth
Empires Dawn of the Modern World
Enemy Infestation
Incubation (with Wilderness expansion)
Kohan
Masters Of Orion II (in alliance mode)
Myth 1-2
Rise of Nations
Seven Kingdoms
Shadow Company
Starcraft: Broodwar (in alliance mode)
Starwars Galactic Battlegrounds & Clone Wars (basically AoE with Star
Wars
characters/races)
Syd Meier's Gettysburg (even supports coop vs coop)
Warlords: Battlecry
Fantasy Sims
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Battlezone 2 (with latest patch)
Descent 1-3
* Freespace (downloadable main campaign coop)
* Freespace 2
Shattered Steel
Starlancer (3-player coop campaign)
X-Wing vs Tie Fighter Balance Of Power
Other
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M1 Tank Platoon 2
Zork: Grand Inquisitor (apparently!)