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. :-)

Re:A stroll down tribes lane

[BrookHarty]

Tribes beauty was how simple and elegant it was. You had skiing and simple easy to understand weapons. Tribes2 had a horrible launch due to the lack of 3dfx support, and numerous bugs (Sierra forced the launch). Now, T2 is a rather good game.

Both Tribes1 and Tribes2 are free now, go download them off Fileplanet.

Tribes Vengeance skiing is weird, you actually just hover, so it¦s a lot of change. Lag is a little worse, and since it uses the Unreal 2004 engine, unreal hacks work on the game. Servers already have speed hackers. Sad really.

Things I don¦t like about TV, no ammo pack, skiing, speed pack hacks, lag issues, no mine-discing, sniper kills on Light is too easy, ammo on sniper rifle, HO¦s are a little too powerful in a base, no beacons, no way pointer.

Things I do like about TV, great gfx (unreal 2004 engine), Models for each class is very highly detailed, weapons are almost true to tribes, new Grappling hook is amazing (Quake CTF anyone?), repair pack is more automated, fast action.

I played Tribes1 way too much, playing in clan¦s and going to Tribescon1, T2 and T3. First place team at T1, 2nd at T2. So I¦m a little picky on what I like about new tribes games.

Single player of TV is rather fun, and MP needs a little tuning. They did a nice job bringing back Tribes.

-IronWolve

Re:A stroll down tribes lane

[ShaggusMacHaggis]

try grappling the ground....then pressing the 'walk backwards' key...then let go of the grappler and press forward at the same time...it gives you a huge boost.

and its great for changing direction mid-route.

HUD mods

[HoneyBunchesOfGoats]

For those of you who don't like the default head's-up display, this is moddable, just like the original Tribes. I came across this HUD, which is a lot more like Tribes 1. (I play using the "high-res" version, even though I'm running at medium resolution, because doing so makes the map extra big.)

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.

Time travel?

[billybob]

Did I get transported to last week when this was news???