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Summary: Is it worth it from what you hear?
Review: 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.
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Summary: Success! Check the forums before you give up!
Review: OK -- after checking the forums, Voodoo-based card users should find the information they need to get the game running properly. Once you do, it rocks! While I'm still unimpressed about the initial out-of-box experience, the net result is still a superb game.
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Summary: 3DFx Owners Beware!
Review: 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 Addict 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!)
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Summary: Great if you have a HAL 9000 computer
Review: This is an excellent game. That said, only if you have a very powerful computer. My 500mhz AMD and Geforce2 MX with a cable connection still the game is choppy with most of the graphic settings reduced or off. There are also a number of bugs, expect to sit for a half hour waiting for the auto-update feature to update your version. Assuming that you make it in to the game you will find the gameplay to be mostly the same from T1, wich is very good. It remains a solid on-line team play FPS. However some of the new features favor offence, attacking more than defending. What new toys you get to defend your base with are mostly useless. The enemy team however is free to attack using new cloak packs. These make them invisable to players, sensors and turrets. It is no fun to have to deal with a camper in your base with a cloak pack. While these are not really flaws, if you are on a losing team just expect to lose more. This drains the "Gee this is cool!" feeling to; "Gee, why do I bother?" IF you have a light speed connection and a Cray 2 computer, you MIGHT have a chance to get good IF you play long enough that MIGHT turn it around to a perfectly enjoyable game, IF......
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!
Review: 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!!!
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Summary: Lived up to all my expectations
Review: Tribes 2 is without doubt the best game money can buy on the PC. As hard as it may be to believe, the videos and screenshots didn't do justice to this game. It exceeds tribes in every aspect of control, graphics, and how teamwork is encouraged. Even the training missions are great fun. It currently is a little buggy, and has extremely high hardware requirements, but if you've got a nice comp, this is the game to show it off with. I recomend this game over any other on the market today.
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Summary: Stop! Read this before you spend $... on this game!
Review: 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.
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Summary: Good if you have Geforce 5 ;)
Review: 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.
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Summary: It didn't work.
Review: 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.
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Summary: Tribes 2? DOH!!!
Review: Oh, why oh why didn't they stick with their original engine??? I've spent all day playing on my P600 with Radeon card, and it keeps chugging like and old rusty locomotive. It was running well, then 3 bots turned up and killed me immediately because I couldn't move! (this is one example of many) Multiplayer suffers similar problems. I can't believe they've wasted this time making this slow and troubled new engine. A major disappointment because Tribes was one of my favorite games of all time. Well, back to Giants: Citizen Kabuto -- best game I've played in 10 years!
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