TS:FP was awesome, but you could only have a maximum of 8 players on a LAN (on the PS2, the Xbox version allowed 16), however, TS 2 allowed a maximum of 16 players on a LAN :P. If the online is important to you, only FP had online multiplayer, sadly EA pulled the plug on that server about 1-2 months ago... :( Maybe SOCOM still has online multiplayer.

However, you can still play "online" TS, or any LAN game, just check:

http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/

They have a program (X Link Kai) that allows you to play games (that have a LAN option enabled) over the internet!! Most of the users are Xbox users but once in a while there are PS2 or even GC users.

I tell you this because i want to play TS:FP again, but i don't find any one there who plays that game.