Can we get some love in here for my favourite multiplayer game of all time... Tribes 2? A friend gave me his copy just after the game was released, in 2001, because it was too demanding for his computer.
Strong points of T2:
Biggest maps ever in a round-based multiplayer FPS. You could get in a "Shrike" and fly full-speed in one direction for quite some time without any restriction.
Highly varied tactics and modes of combat. Prior to Battlefield, this was the only game I played where you could adapt almost any style to kill the enemy. In fact it offers more variety than the Battlefield series. Sometimes you want to be Heavy Armour with mortars, which basically makes you a walking tank. Other times you want to be Scout armour with stealth cloaking and a stun-stick... I used to cloak in front of a "Power-up" pod or teleporter and guys would walk right up to me and I'd stun them. Pwnt!
And who can deny the satisfaction of a long range, midair spinfusor kill?
Too bad they killed the game with some very bad patches. I remember after one of the last patches, the number of players online dropped by about half all of a sudden. This was in the Fall season of 2001.
Strong points of T2:
Biggest maps ever in a round-based multiplayer FPS. You could get in a "Shrike" and fly full-speed in one direction for quite some time without any restriction.
Highly varied tactics and modes of combat. Prior to Battlefield, this was the only game I played where you could adapt almost any style to kill the enemy. In fact it offers more variety than the Battlefield series. Sometimes you want to be Heavy Armour with mortars, which basically makes you a walking tank. Other times you want to be Scout armour with stealth cloaking and a stun-stick... I used to cloak in front of a "Power-up" pod or teleporter and guys would walk right up to me and I'd stun them. Pwnt!
And who can deny the satisfaction of a long range, midair spinfusor kill?
Too bad they killed the game with some very bad patches. I remember after one of the last patches, the number of players online dropped by about half all of a sudden. This was in the Fall season of 2001.