Age of Empires is great for Home LAN's if you're on a
budget as you can connect 3 or 4 machines using only
one CD. Other games such as HALO require one CD
per computer, which could become expensive.
Yes, do so often
What are you looking for, specifically? Here, we tend to play Diablo II or
Freelancer on the LAN. Working on getting friends together to play
Neverwinter Nights, as well....