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2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: April 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I consider myself a working professional who enjoys the latest FPS. I was really looking forward to Tribes 2 but just removed it from my harddrive. Granted- my specs are on low end- p2 350, 128 mg ram, creative gforce 2 32mb video card, but I just could not get this game to look or play very well. UT and No One Lives forever run fine. In T2, my graphics were choppy, each day brought a new online bug patch, weapons seemed outdated, and all in all, it just wasn't a pleasant playing experience. Counterstrike still rules and Serious Sam (brand new), is a refreshing, low priced, treat. Oh well- maybe this summer when I upgrade to a 1.1 athlon and get cable...

Crash 2 is a better name

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: April 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have a P3 933, 256 Ram, 32 meg DDR video card, full SCSI 160, W2K system and cannot get this game to run. No matter what I do it plays for about 5 seconds and then crashes back cleanly to the desktop w/o an error message. I have applied six patches to bring it up to date, and now it crashes faster. Very frustrating.

If you liked Tribes, this is your game...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

But if you didn't dig it that much, this isn't gonna change your mind. I bought it expecting something different and mindblowing, but I should have known that companies don't change winning formulas. And rightfully so. And I do respect the fact that there's a lot of people out there that do enjoy this game. But the Tribes franchise is not newbie friendly, even for seasoned FPS gamers.

I didn't have a single problem running this game like some of the other people who gave it a bad write up; Tribes 2 works flawlessly on my setup. It also boasts some pretty cool features; after what seems like dozens of patches, they finally got the community features up and running in the game browser. I wish every game had as many cool features in its browser as Tribes 2.

But once you get into the actual game, it's the same old disclauncher fights and turret avoiding as the first Tribes. The learning curve is massive, and I haven't been able to play this game for more than 30 minutes without getting bored or frustrated and turning it off. I had been looking forward to he single player in T2 so that I could better hone my Tribes skills, but the single player "tutorial" is a joke, and playing with seasoned Tribes players online doesn't exactly encourage you to get better either.

The only thing I even slightly enjoy is the vehicles, and unfortunately even they are seriously flawed. They're about as maneuverable as dead fish, and eminently more frustrating. I only have fun in them when I'm trying to run over unsuspecting people. Which I might add is also extremely difficult, but usually the only challenge in this game I find remotely worth pursuing.

Good if you have Geforce 5 ;)

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: April 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just got the game ignoring everyones talk about how poorly it runs on a Voodoo chipset. And boy were they right...I have a Voodoo5 5500 and a P3 1GHZ and this game runs absolutely horrible when playing online.

So please stay away if you have a Voodoo card of any kind.

Now that out of the way, this game does have alot of promise hence the reason I gave it 3 stars.

If they get some more patches out that fix the slowness on the Voodoo chipsets, then I will mostly likely buy another copy since I did take my copy back.

Action game with Real Time Strategy elements.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Wolfenstien 3d, Doom, Quake II, Unreal Tournament/ QuakeIII now Tribes2. Those games in decending order are the best selling action games of their time. Notice the biggest trend, which seems to be a more of an online gaming focus. Tribe was a fantastic game, yet not many took notice. This time Tribes2 is being noticed for two reasons. Hype & a lot better internet connections. Does it live up to it's hype? Read on. Tribes2 is an online game, which has gone far beyond the level of Unreal Tournament or Quake III. Whereas in those games, the game play is fairly singular, in Tribes2 the real time strategy elements make this game a real treat. A typical Capture the flag in Unreal Tournament would involve a quick run, a grab and a return to score. In Tribes2 things are far more complex. You have to play to see the beauty. Every player is specialized. And you must be unselfish to score. The biggest complaint seems to revolve around the enormous system requirements. I have a fairly modest computer, yet I am running at 800x600 resolution and FULL DETAIL. All you have to do is download better drivers for your Geforce and run at OPEN GL and you will have no problem. The bottom line for this game is, that it's loads of fun for the action loving, strategy loving "intelligent" gamer. In a nutshell, it's like playing Unreal Tournament, in a StarCraft world. Enjoy this game.

Absolute Crap--Sierra runied a great game with bugs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I loved StarSiege and the original Tribes. Tribes 2 won't even run. I have DLd and patched and patched and patched, and I still don't even get to a title screen. I have had driver issues with a game before, but this is insane. I have a Dell P3 700 and a voodoo 5000 graphics card. All over Sierra's forums are complaints about the "unhandled errors" that plague this game.

Sierra's tech support is a joke. I have spent HOURS on the phone with them--every tech wants to try the same tests, and I walk though each session with them only to get the same, canned answer: "try this patch."

This is two-in-a-row that Sierra has ripped me off on--I'd be very hesitant to buy something from this publisher again, regardless of reviews.

From the other posts and reviews, I know this is an awesome game if you can get it to run. However, after reading the posts on Sierra's site and talking with their tech support, several popular configurations (like voodoo cards) just will not work. I have invested hours getting it to run and it will not. Unfortunately, it is a crap shoot on whether you'd be able to get it to run. Be smart, save your money, and check back at sierra.com routinely until they get the UE (unhandled error) bugs worked out.

Complete failure and lousy tech support.

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Tribes 2 is the best FPS team/roleplay game I've ever seen.
It's as simple as that.

The in-game contact with players, network or internet, is amazing with keyboard shortcuts that, in a voice selected by you, male/female, rough or crazy, sends audio messages to your team only or to both yours and the enemy's. eg

VGRA - says globally :"Any time"
VGCR - global: "You Rock!"
VGW - global:"WooHoo!".
VVT - team: "thanks"
VSTR - team: "I'll deploy remote equipment"
VSAF -team: "I'll go for the enemy flag"
VDC - team: "cover our flag carrier"

I know of no other FPS game that offers this feature and is still so user-friendly.

The T2 community is a strong and continually growing international one that will soon be a force to be reakoned with.
The team play gametype is a more mature and longer lasting one than has ever been seen in gaming yet and tribes are forming all over the world that are keen to see this game fill a huge gap in the FPS realistic internet, multiplayer games. T2 is already featuring at some of the top gaming conventions and tribes representing South Africa and England have challenged each other to a CTF showdown of the calibre that has not been seen before.

T2 is more than just a little game that is gradually gaining momentum. It is here to stay and growing into an awesome international community that is continually expanding it's sphere of influence. On the correct servers newbies are welcomed and invited to be trained, taught, and are generally looked after. The T2 community is just that, a community that is there to boost each other, kick each others butts (kindly of course) and improve on and with each others skills.

If you've played any of the well-known FPS LAN'ers or ONLINE'ers
and are tierd of the continual bickering and fighting then the change you'll find in T2 will be a refreshing advert for what the gaming world COULD be. T2'ers look out for each other and accept any players from CS UT or any other games you're coming from. It's an open community that generally welcomes newbies.

T2 is simply the best FPS role playing indoor, outdoor multiplayer game in the world. no doubt.
GET IT.

not for 3dfx users

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: April 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this is an extension of ym last review... the 3dfx cards are not very good with Tribes2 even though they can perform as well as a GeForce you have to substantially decrease the detail settings making the game somewhat bland at a certain point. VooDoo3 users get better performance ( its a better card ) but if you run a single non V3 VooDoo card you will not be able to run this game well... also Dynamix is making a patch but it wont release for some time so stay away until the patch is released or else be doomed to at best 10 frames per second

Interesting gameplay, very poor engine.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: April 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Okay. Consider this the horrible negative review of the game. I've seen all the other reviews which are like "YAH BEST GAME EVAR" but personally.... *sigh*. I have a Pentium 3-650, and a Matrox G400 video card, and this game runs very poorly. In fact, in order to match the smoothness I had in Tribes 1 (with a P2-350 and Voodoo 2 video), I had to turn the detail levels ALL down and even then it was choppy if there was another character on the screen. (and when you have all the detail levels down, the characters look like triangle skeletons and the ground and buildings look like blurred vomit).

So, I guess... judge for yourself. I really like Tribes and I like the gameplay in Tribes 2 (they made a lot of advancements that make sense, although vehicles are still a pig to drive), but unless I go buy a GeForce I don't forsee this as getting any better.

This is the best game since X-Wing Alliance

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: March 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is totally awsome, the graphics and the large maps makes you wonder how you ever got your little AMD to do all that every last pixel is clear and the gameplay is outstanding. Everytime you play this game and then quit you always want to stay for more... and unlike its prequil T2 offers single player gameplay also with super intellegent bots

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