Woot for Tron
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So I was sitting around in the Linux lab in uni wasting time between lectures as I normally do, reading [link=http://www.theregister.com/odds/bofh/]BOFH[/link]. When I spot 2 of my mates playing, what I instantly recognised as a Tron bike game… and it was multiplayer 
Right, I’ve played the Tron 2.0 game that came out a few years ago and it was complete and utter tripe. But this looked pretty awesome, even though the graphics weren’t great. I tried to download and install the Linux binaries on the lab machine I was on, but could not. So I was stealing control of one of their laptops and played a few rounds. Thouroughly addictive 
The game is called [link=http://armagetron.sf.net]Armagetron Advanced[/link] and not only does it have multiplayer it has a internet game browser list where you can join games with 20+ tron bikers, either in an all vs. all royal rumble, or various teamplay modes. Very cool. Although I do have one criticism, even though having a lower ping than most of the other guys on the server, it still feels very laggy. And a lot of the time, when I cut someone up and try to take them out, the game corrects itself after a second and it is the other player who was apparantly infront (???) and I end up totalling myself.
Oh well, still awesomely fun and pulling off life-saving manuevres between 2 bike trails is pretty awesome.
Right, now I gotta try get my house mates to play it once I get the server installed onto WOPR (our gaming server).
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By Benji-kun, February 23, 2006 @ 10:05 am
It’s good isn’t it
I played it a while back.