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warning: soundblaster live and/or diamond vid card owners

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: June 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game could have been really great - but Nova logic hasreally dropped the ball in a big way here. This game requires a 3-daccelerator card (ok fine), but if you have a diamond stealth series, or a matrox, or a soundblaster live sound card you will simply not be able to run this game at all. it will crash on you and you will not even be able to play it at all or...- if you are lucky you may be able to get it to run without sound. (the diamond monster sound cards crash too). there have been literally hundreds of posts on their web site begging for help and there has been _no_ response from tech suport for over a month now. go check their web site for yourself - it is very revealing...i strongly suggest you save your money until they fix this program.

An ameteur review of Tachyon: The Fringe

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: April 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

From what I have played of the Tachyon demo the game seems to be almost perfect in every way. Graphics are terrific and sound and voice is crystal clear. Multiplayer is easy and fast to set up, and easier to play. All in all, I'd say great job, Novalogic.

Tachyon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game was pretty good. The story changes depending on your actions. I was very impressed with its graphics.You can outfit your ship depending on your specific mission needs. Though I own no other space simulator, this is the best one i've seen.

Needed info for Tachyon: The Fringe

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Tachyon: the fringe is very different from other space-simulators. I used to play prophecy a lot, because I thought the gameplay rocked and it had loads of challange in it. But now this game is even better, you can choose over 10 ships and arm them the way you want (as long as you have enough credits) You can make credits by completing missions or trainings (the trainings give you little credit) And you can even hire some buddies to help you, Their AI ...[stinks] but they don't die quickly. I think there is only one real bugger in this game and that's that you can't skip the auto-pilot scenes and the docking of your ship. Further Í'd advise anyone who reads this to buy it quickly. And of course.....ONLY ON AMAZON...

Things that make you go, Huh!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Tachyon is one of those games that intrigues from the mini-movie intro. The graphics and colour schemes are so dazzling that you will instantly get an adrenaline rush. This has to be one of the best rendered games I have come across. The gameplay is simple enough to grasp, there is not much of a learning curve here. Sound,despite the odd shrill female voiceover, is very well done. So why do I rate a mere three stars? I have one rule to playing games. I play for fun and not to be aggravated. Unfortunately Tachyon has a few elements that are sure to tick some (certainly me) off. The game is played out on the "Job Board" where you will be hired to complete contracts ranging from deliveries to disabling "Capital Ships". Some of these quests require the player to repeat multiple times before figuring out how to find the proverbial chink in the armour.Try disabling a Battle Cruiser that outguns you 20-1. Good Luck. That (repetition) gets boring real quick. Each time one has to return to base, rearm and take off again, usually passing through multiple gates before reaching the target. That is a whole lot of lost gaming time. The thrill of the chase and intensity of combat (assisted by the A1 graphics) makes up for the lag. But my biggest complaint is that I have encountered difficulties with the docking controls. On a few occasions I have had to spend up to an hour just trying to dock (despite the autodock feature) because the AI wouldn't acknowledge that I was there. Indeed I had to abandon one quest (Rescue the Persephone) because the auto dock didn't work. It's not just a thing that makes you go ,HUh! but is also very annoying. The quests simply lack the depth and sophistication (lasting little more than 10 min. on average) to overcome the deficiencies. Don't get me wrong I still think this is a great game, graphically speaking, but the repetition and bugs really spoil the fun.

huh

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

the game was cool, annd fun, and neat, and great, and CHEAP!!!!!

Talk About Space Flight..........

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has you thinking you're really there, flying and fighting in space. You control your role as the mercenary indepedent star pilot Jake Logan. Awesome weapons upgrades and powerful CPU updates keep you giving the enemy what they have to except. Search asteroid belts for cargo and beam valuable crates aboard your ship. Once you finish the game you'll be eager to play again, it is very addicting. It will keep you busy for quite a while. This just isn't a game, it's an adventure. Who ever designed this game was a total guenius.

WOW 100,000,000% BEST SPACE SIM EVER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game ever there are so many variables to adjust and so many options to change it is great. Not to mention the different; weapons, missions, regions, space sations, i could go on... Overall a good game and good weapons also the difficulty can ber changed any time in the game if you get boartd with the toughness of your apponetts also there is a battle between two rival factions and you get to choose sides and weapons (SUGGEST GALSPAN CORAPORATION GOOD TECH'S) GET THIS GREAT GAME!
JUST LIKE REAL LIFE DECISIONS.

Spectacular...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game blew my mind. i first saw it when i played a demo that was on delta force 2. i loved the demo and immediately tried finding a copy. about a week after i placed my order with novalogic, they mailed me back saying that it was out of print. disappointment set in, so i went over to my local Electronics Boutique and, lo and behold, they had not one, but TWO copies!!! this game is great. the graphics rock my socks...hard. i love just sitting still and watching a planet turn, or watching a larger star devour a smaller one. they did a really great job of making you feel like the world was alive. the storyline is fantastic, i really liked the idea that i could just take whichever jobs i wanted. just a word of advice here- if you side with GalSpan, you'll have access to a great deal of guided missiles and the like, but will be lacking in the area of special weapons, and the guided missiles aren't so strong compared to the bora rockets. the bora have no guided weapons at all, but their dumb fire rockets seem to do more damage, and they also have the two most powerful special weapons in the game, the rail gun- which can destroy any fighter with one hit, and the nova device( i think it's called that...) which basically emits a large-ish explosion from your ship. this game is great fun, the world is so incredibly fun to look at, i could watch it for hours and still be amazed. have fun with it, while you can, because it seems like space sims are going out of style, so good ones like this, the freespace games, and freelancer are going to become harder to find. wish i would have baught that second copy....

Like one reviewer said "since the original Wing Commander"

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 21
Date: April 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is like the original Wing Commander, this game is a joke. made by a child this game is slow it is unstable. this game should be ashamed to call it self a game i rather recommend the Wing Commander IV on DVD or the new Wing Commander Wing Commander Prophecy, Tachyon is immature and childish as I just said, although the idea is good, the people that made this game have not been doing their homework besides from lousy controls and lousy graphics this game just does not work at all i just can't describe my disappointment. i highly recomend that you rather buy Wing Commander IV or Prophecy Gold Edition or just any other Space Sim shoot'em up game.

P.S. the original Wing Commander was for a 386 computer

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