Tribes2

Chubby

A copy of a post in the Quake section of this board regarding Quake3...

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It is a very pretty looking game but it's nothing new. It's Quake with better graphics and some Quake2 weapons. Same indoors shooter thingy and it's getting old. There are too many of them. I have to say something like Tribes is a lot more enjoyable. Outdoor fighting, using jetpacks to fly straight up to dodge instead of strifing left or right, "skiiing" (you have to play it to know what this means), armor types, teamplay etc, it just offers so much more. Something new... Frankly, the exagerated smoke trails in Quake3, the flashes and the glare are just too much. They are over-doing it with the eye-candy and that's what's really new in Quake3.

Check out some screenshots of Tribes2 which can be found in all the major Tribes web-site.






It looks blurred cause it was taken with a camera in E3...I think!
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Anyway, it looks good no?

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Jade

Yeah, it looks fantastic. Those levels are unreal. Tribes was a huge hit, and Tribes 2 is going to blow everyone away. I'm just not waiting untill its released here, since tribes was just released here this week !!

Roll on T2

SeP

pretty coloorrss.....

on second though it likes kinda scary! wooo

mmmm....bed time?? arghhh

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Hobbes

Oooh yea baybee!



I agree about Q3, the game while looking cute is nothing more then Quake. I think all it's proving is that Quake is going the way of the dinosaurs.

T2 looks cute, any specs out yet. Eg what weapons, vechiles, terrains, other features?

Chubby

Dunno about specs but that weapon in the 2nd sceenshot looks like a plasma gun? The disc launcher looks the same, saw it somewhere. Think it's basically going to be Tribes with better graphics and all the bits they didn't have time to put into Tribes like water, land vehicles, underwater vehicles (read somewhere about submarines )

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ButcherOfNog

na na na na ye see you have it all wrong. if you want a quick game of something, you play quake, if you have the time (at least an hour) you can play tribes. you can also be sure that half the time you'll end up with a TK'er on your team, which removes all the enjoyment out of it.

quake is a quick blast, tribes is long term commitment

both are good.

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clanless_Coyote

I've seen the water effect on the movie file tribes2water.mpg, and its fab

Even for a pre-release, not-so-brilliantly-rendered, early-version snapshot..... its a major improvement.

Can't wait for the inevitable T2 strategies to evolve based on new landscape / terrain constraints. Possibly even boats??

Just imagine knocking a couple of heavies off their transport in the middle of a lake, and counting the bubbles on the surface as they sink to the bottom.

Regards,
[clanless]Coyote
"Abandon All Hope!"

gollum

i saw T2 at E3, and talked to some of the dynamix lads. they're pretty excited about the new game and i have to say that it looks like the mutts nuts. they reckon it'll ship xmas

Chubby

You were in T3 Gollum? Lucky sod Saw a screenshot of someone camping in a tree somewhere last night. Ummm, wonder if there'll be a map of just a treews. A forrest complete with bases in clearings etc. That'd be cool.

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gollum

yeah i was at E3 - it was unbelieveable but the sierra/dynamix stuff blew me away
on t2 i didnt see any forest maps as such but the terrain was a lot more interesting. forget rolling hills and think mountain ranges/cliffs/lakes/better bases and new clans and that gives you an idea of what theyre doing. dunno what else they're going to add but the dynamix lads i was talking to promised a lot of new stuff including weaponary and vehicles

Shinji

The things that stunned everyone at E3 were the things nobody expected to be stunned by... Tribes 2 and Lithtech 2 were the two single most impressive technologies on show, making Q3A et al look like very old news indeed.

Bye bye iD....

Mata ne!
Rob