Tribes Vengeance Playable Demo Available

JimLynch writes "There's a playable demo of Tribes Vengeance available (single and multiplayer)." Gamespot recently took another look at the Vengeance Multiplayer experience, and Tycho has thoughts on playing the demo over at Penny Arcade.

Comments

A stroll down tribes lane

[tod_miller]

I loved the opriginal tribes. I never knew what the maps were, I always ended up on some wierd server where you could jump 10 miles high and bullets had the power of s uitcase nuke.

On normal server, the pulsing and fearful gameplay really had you hooked, if you didn't play as part of you team, the other would be able to ply thier way into your base, knocking out power and shields.

The flight mechanics were a little novel, but the terrain system was awesome.

My favourite moment was laser sniping from peak to peak, while a large battle of explosions clouded my view of the opposing snipers!

Did't quite beat a good old game of action quake 2 though...

Funny how games such as Halo have completely been unable to capture 10% of how good these games were.

Gameplay folks, I guess it does exist, it seperates the half lifes from the no lifes :-) [yes I know what a half life is!]

Recent games I played: Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, Postal 2.

Postal 2 is just for kicks. :-)

Great game, release date is Oct 5th - no linux

[ShaggusMacHaggis]

Can't wait for the full release of the game this week. Hard to believe they started work on it just over 2 years ago.

Having played the closed beta, open beta, and demo extensively, I can really say this is truely a tribes sequel (even though it takes place before t1 and t2). This is probably the most fun i've had playing an online game in quite awhile.

There are still issues though - there are still bugs in the demo, which is the same code as the 'gold' code. When will developers learn that they need to wait to release the product until all known bugs (especially gameplay altering ones) are worked out...if anything, you would have thought they would have learned from the horrible release that tribes 2 had. At least the bugs aren't as bad as the ones tribes 2 had, but still...there is no excuse for this.

Also, it looks like there may not be a linux server (and certainly, no linux port of the game like there was for t2....) I'm not losing any sleep over the no linux client, but I do think it's a shame that there is no linux server. Apparently the problem is they would have to license the havok engine for linux as well - and I guess they didn't want to pony up the money for it...not sure if it would be really worth it in the longrun i guess.

The developers hang out quite a bit over on the Tribalwar forums.