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Beta quality - don't waste your $$

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: April 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Shame on Sierra for releasing a beta quality game. Just go look at the tribes2.com forums - everyone's having serious problems, ranging from crashing to horrible framerates. And that's not even counting the problems with network support.

Don't believe the hype. This game is a waste of your money; wait a few months & see if they fix it.

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.

To many Bugs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'm sure that it is a good game, if you can get it to run. They released this game to early, it still has way to many bugs in it. Much more than any other game I've installed. Wait a few months.

It didn't work.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 21
Date: April 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Just what the title says; this game is just a big waste of my (and thousands of other's) time and money.

Congradulations Sierra on releasing the worst pile of incoherent trash known to man.

Stop! Read this before you spend $... on this game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: April 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have been dying for T2 to come out, and I've never been this disappointed in anything I've bought. My machine is a PIII/800 with a Voodoo3 2000 (per the system reqirements), 128 megs of RAM. Tribes2 CRAWLS. The game is absolutely unplayable. I don't know what the reviewers who raved about Tribes2 were running it on, but it certainly isn't anything available in my local computer store.

Seems to me like Dynamix left the bad features (i.e. the 5-minute wait for the server list to refresh and poor network performance), and destroyed the good ones (like original Tribes' fast graphics engine and the speed with which the missions loaded). This is a 500+ megabyte pig. ... I'm so sad I could cry.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: April 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is not worth...bucks. It is very poor quality software, even after installing and reinstalling it 3 times, it still does not work. My two computer nut friends are having the same problem. Also, it is very similar to the orginal, but the original has better controls, AND IS...BUCKS LESS!!! Get it, NOT THIS!!!

This game blows!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

OVERRATED!! Hey, these are some sweet graphics...for 1995 standards!! This game is a hyped up mess. Bad graphics, no matter what speed you machine, laughable voice overs, lame weapons, and the list goes on. Look, if you want a real net shooter, go with the best...Unreal tournament, out for a year now and still on top.

TRIBES 1 MUCH BETTER!!!!!! TRIBES 2 IS A PAIN IN THE A**

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was expecting something great, something amazing, something like I've never seen before. I was VERY disapointed!!! Tribes 1 was great!!!! it worked well, played well, and was lots of fun. Then I put in Tribes 2 for the first time and imediatly noticed the choppy pour graphics and lousy game play. I tried to turn my character(I have a 500 mhz cpu, 128 mb ram, and Voodoo3) and it was extremly choppy and slow. I pressed the fire button and the game froze for 5 seconds and then finally my weapon discharges. Why did they have to use such a complex engine in this game!?!?!? I went through the hassle of downloading patches and stuff but still!, lousy choppy gameplay!! If this game wasn't so anti-compatible, maybe it wouldn't be so hated by half the people who purchase it.

JUST STICK WITH TRIBES 1!!!!!!!!

Tribes 1 offers better graphics, easy to set up online play, and is very compatible. You don't need a 1 ghz cpu to play it either. A simple 200 mhz machine can handle this game! For some reason the graphics are much better but require less power than tribes 2. The only cool thing with Tribes 2 is the opening movie (very cool). If you already own tribes 1 and are looking for new online fun, try Unreal Tournament. It may not be appropriate for younger gamers but it remains one of the most fun games played online to date.

fogwars

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: May 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought it when it first came out and it was missing alot of stuff.Now two months later it is still unfinished,no scoring for vehicles,community options still are not finished.Still a lot of bugs from the start and they add more all the time.Last patch they new they were adding a bug with the turrets but did it anyways and said they would fix it the next patch. The worst change thye have made so far is last patch they fogged in all the maps as a great code fix to improve fps for low end computers.Now its like playing in fogwars.Instead of unlimted viewing areas as you see on the box here or screenshots anywheres its all fogged in now.All you see are red triangles coming at you through the fog in the distance. If you like fog buy this game,you can't see far now so it is no different than any other game,your suppose to be outddors but its the same as Quake or Counterstrike,instead of normal walls you have fog walls.

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.

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