I work in a school and I think I can get the budget to buy 4 360's and 4 19" tft's, but as I've never played on a 360, let alone networked them I'm at a loss as to what they can do....... We're looking at getting 4 on a LAN maybe with net access (but maybe via a proxy, but I can isolate them to have direct access) Will they LAN games, or do I have to use the internet? ANd what games would you guys recomend? Shoukd be a 12 cert and under, We may be able to go 15, but not prefered. BUT... ?!? PEGI certs are flexable as they are a "recomendation" AFAIK but bfcb ones are enforcable, could anyone confirm this? any help for whats what with the serts and achools would be cool. Anyones school do this? I could use feed back to see what other schools do. I'm looking at munting them in a DIY jig on a rolling table, anyone seen any, again feed back on the idea. Any ideas, help, recomendations would be appreciated... Thanks
why on earth would you bring 360's into a school? land some low cost PC's together and get the kids to actually learn something.
I'm not certain about console-linking 360's and playing together without an Internet connection because I've never done it without a connection, but I'm pretty certain to play any game in multiplayer each person has to have some form of XBL membership, which means being online to verify that. Don't quote me, that's just my assumption. Like I said, any time I've series linked consoles (not done it for ages now either) we have had a connection and have played online games like Halo 3. As for 12 certified games... I have no idea. I play maybe 3 or 4 different games on my 360 all year round, and none of them are rated that low as far as I know. You can buy a "rolling table" of some sort from Ikea and just modify it to suit the 360's if you like. Beware though, 19" TFT's (I'm assuming with HDMI ports - how else are you going to connect them?) will be very small if you are putting 4 players on each console. The smallest I feel comfortable playing 4 player multiplayer on is my 32" LCD, and it's very rare that I have to do that. It's usually either a 42" or 46" LCD or a projector, depending on where I am playing. 19"/4 would be so painful on the eyes.
Whether or not a given game can be played over local link (LAN) or just Xbox Live is up to the given game. If the creator of the game doesn't add in support for that type of multiplayer, you won't get it. The three types of multiplayer that its possible they support are: 2- 4 player split screen 2 - x player local link (LAN) 2 - x player Xbox Live You actually need to go about this backwards. Go to your local Game or Gamestation, and check out the type of games you can buy with that level of PEGI restriction. Check out the back cover of the game box and review what type of multiplayer they support. I suspect you'll end up with more games supporting split screen or xbox live, skipping the local link option, in which case a single console with additional controllers and a larger TV would be better (as Unicorn is saying).
Lotsa reasons. Price: a 360 & 19" tft cost £240 a basic PC would cost £400 Space: Smaller footprint Portability. Ease of use. lower maintenence & support. And finally. As part of a reward system 360's have more of a "WOW" then same old internet games. We have plenty of PC's and laptops, but none are good for gaming.
Asking this question in a very PC centric forum is bound to get people suggesting you use PCs instead. I’m sorry guys, but 360’s are the clear choice for under 12s, and in terms of the amount of effort you’ll have to go through to get this all working. The answer is yes, you can LAN 4x 360’s together. Just use a simple Ethernet switch. They don’t have to have Xbox Live accounts to play most games via LAN. I can’t think of any specific games, but you’d probably do well with something in the racing genre, as they are usually fairly non violent. By that same token, maybe something like Blur or Split/Second which is easy and fun to pick up and play.
yes kids need to have more time playing games.... for under 12's the experience of finding out how to setup and maintain the network would have value - the quality of the graphics isn't so important and there are plenty of decent 'older' games often now on free licences that have multi-player - and lets face it it's not that hard. Teaching kids to take the easiest (not cheapest) option is not the best lesson to give them and regarding playing 'suitable' games they are more likely to turn their noses up at them than they are to 'obscure' games http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Multiplayer just my 2 pence
Off-Tops, how on earth do you have 99,999 posts?! Lolwut, never noticed that before. Zoon's suggestion is a great one, head to the local games shop and see what games you're going to be able to play, then decide on your console setup once you have that information.
You might find it better to have one big screen xbox 360 on one side of the trolley, and a Wii on the other? Then you can justify the kiddos playing on the Wii as exercise.... maybe...
You can link as many 360s together as you want using a router/switch, even if there is no internet connection, it is limited by the game designers whether they suppport lan play and if so how many consoles & how many people per console.
^^^ + Be careful about XBL Multiplayer and System Link Multiplayer player numbers. For example, on PGR3/4 you can splitscreen and have 2 people on 1 console. But the minute we tried system linking to race against a friend it would only let 1 person per console.
