Well last one was red alert 2 because of ease to play, adapt and pick up, warcraft 3 will be to complicated can't think of a good one for a LAN party and age of empires/rome total war not any gd for the type of gamers i have
I already said BFME. Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth. Its one of the easiest games to get into and also one of the easiest for noobs to learn.
I've always had problem with getting my playiers to play UT2k4 Onslaught. I have found that if they are not already UT2k4 players, then they have a hard time trying to work out what to do.