The sound effects are pretty standard-you've got booms, you've got pa-kows, you've got clangs, you've got grunts. You have a large number of built-in voice clips that you can use to communicate with your teammates, which adds a touch of realism to the game-text messages are a lot harder to notice in the heat of battle. You've got your requisite Generic Techno that reverberates throughout the game-chances are good that you'll find yourself turning it off, so you can hear your teammates' voices. The sound in Tribes 2 is pretty much standard fare. So, in a nutshell: if you have a powerhouse machine to show off the graphics in Tribes 2, they will pleasantly surprise you.

That's not entirely true-it will look nicer, but it's certainly not a great improvement. Once you've lowered the graphical settings in the game, chances are good that it won't look much better than, say, the original Tribes, which is a shame. To get a decent framerate, you're going to have to turn down the graphical settings-indeed, even I couldn't run it with everything at full when playing online. On a mid-end machine, on the other hand, chances are good that you won't be very impressed with the game. On a high-end machine like The Beast, Tribes 2 looks fantastic-sprawling worlds, detailed characters, amazing explosions. The better your video card and the faster your machine, the better the game will look. The graphics in Tribes 2 depend a great deal on the power of your computer.

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