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Is it worth it from what you hear?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I will give an honest review and personal opinion that makes sense. I love playing these first person shooter games and I play things like Unreal Tournament and counter-strike and rogue spear most frequently. I was expecting a great game from what I read on reviews and from word of mouth on the internet (can you really trust it?). I have a P3-667 Mhz with 128 MB of RAM using a Voodoo5500 AGP card. The game runs pretty decent going on 800x600 (16-bit) on Direct3D mode. However, OpenGL is a different story. Even on 640x480, it was really choppy and unplayable. Although the graphics looked superb in OpenGl, this game is a machine hog, as everyone has stated earlier. This game sort of reminds me of Team Fortress Classic and how everyone needs to work together. Problem is, nobody does. Everyone just runs around shooting and killing anything. I played on several servers and there is no team work as people mention about. Even though it's a team based game, team work is not there because everyone wants a piece of there own action. So it was not fun in that sense. The weapons, to me personally, are like 'whatever'. They just shoot plasma, lasers, rocket, etc.. and you just hit people. People are just flying and driving vehicles everywhere and turrets are firing everywhere. For some reason, this game just wasn't fun. Sure, I got the hang of the game farely quick, but I found myself wanting to play Counter-Strike instead. The thrill is just not there as in Counter-strike. As for technical problems - none for me. Everyone else, on www.tribes2.com on the forum have so many problems. But I have not seen any serious problems on my computer. My personal recommendation is to wait for this game to drop in price and get Counter-strike, if you haven't done so all ready.

Best new game yet only one problem

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Unsurpassed graphics, Seemless online play, just one problem humans need sleep or else I would play all day, well not all day just when im not in class. Runnig this on a p3 800 coppermine and 64 meg Geforce 2 pro is not a problem.

3DFx Owners Beware!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is terrible for Voodoo 3 3000 owners! upon installation it defaulted into OpenGl mode, The graphics were extreemly choppy, So I set the Graphics mode to Direct3D, that was a mistake, only because now it will not let me change back to OpenGL! if you do change it back, you will keep getting an Exception, causing the game to end. And GOOD LUCK trying to get any kind of Support from Sierra! their worse than Packard Bell was! (hmmm Packard Bell is no longer around, I wonder if that tells you something!) The Game has so much potential! Cranking the sound makes for an unforgettable sound experience, the world is probably beautifull if you have a GEForce. The control of vehicles and planes needs inprovement. If I wasen't such an ... I would throw this game away, but I can see how with enough work, this could be one of the best game out there. (In my opinion Unreal Tournement is still the Best Game Ever Made!)

anticipation rewarded

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Tribes 2, sequel to one of my favorite online games, is spectacular. While i can appreciate comments relating to crashing computers, with 1ghz and dsl, have had limited problems. Graphics are phenomenal, and this is easily the best online/offline game i have ever played.

well...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

it would have been a good game some years ago, but as a fps, UT is better, as a team game with rts elements, allegiance is better... i rather play allegiance than lose time with tribes 2

Waited for Nothing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I sooooo anticipated the release of this game so I could replace Team Fortress Classic and my Unreal Tournament with a much more imporved game. This game is the worst and I don't have a slow machine, I am running a P4 1.4 GHZ - GeForce 2 Ultra 64 MB of DDR ram with 256 MB of RAM, the game runs great its just lifeless. Steep learning curve that is not worth the time. I love the combination RTS aspects of a FPS online team base shooter. It just doesn't pay off and it is not worth the time.

tribes2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game doesn't work with TNT vedio cards with multiple monitors setup. No help from the Sierra/Tribes tech support.

Tribes2 .. Why bother?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'll get straight to the point... If you have UT don't bother with Tribes 2. Save your $.

Make sure you have the best video card

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: April 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you don't have the following, don't purchase this game (amazon just lists a 3D graphics card. That ain't gonna cut it):

Peripherals: Direct Input game controllers supported 12MB or better video card Supported Video Cards: Pentium II: 300 MHz w/ GeForce & GeForce 2, Diamond Viper II, Ati Rage 128, or Pentium II: 400 MHz w/ TNT, TNT 2, Radeon, Matrox G400 & G450 Voodoo 3, or Pentium III: 500 MHz w/ Voodoo 2, Voodoo 4, Voodoo 5, Kyro Permedia 3

If you don't know what your video card is, don't purchase this game because you probably don't have a good one.

Too many technical flaws to be any good

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was really excited for this to be released, as I had heard so many positive reviews of the game hitting the shelves. I had never played Tribes, in fact I grew up on multi-player FPS games off of the Half-Life system like TFC and Counterstrike. And as I installed Tribes 2 I got even more excited looking through the player's manual at the various options available like the tanks and different weapons. And then it happened, the game installed and I opened the program, only to find that the game wouldn't play on my system, an unimpressive yet still adequate 450 MHz with a 32 mb video card. So I sold the game to a friend with a superior system, and got a chance to see it played. It looked somewhat impressive, but he wasn't too happy with the gameplay or missions invovled and now has it sitting on his shelf. It seemed as if Sierra released this game while it was still in a beta testing stage, we encountered several bugs and so did players from several gaming message boards I frequent. Overall, this game is probably enjoyable if you have a really top of the line computer system. Otherwise it might end up collecting dust sooner than a game should.

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