TRIALS of BATTLE is OS/2's FIRST truly native first person action game.

• Developed by: Shadowsoft
• Published by Stardock
• Trials of Battle is no longer available for sale

You may never have believed in alien abductions before but Trials of Battle will make you a believer. Taken to a distant world, you must compete in the ultimate arena of competition in your heavily armored hover tanks. Equipped with weapons that are far beyond what is available on Earth and with deadly extras to add a little surprise to your enemy's day, you are ready to face the best of the best from all across the galaxy. You may be good but remember, no human has ever made the rank of Battle Master!

Fast Action Battles in the arena!

Trials of Battle puts you in the cockpit of a hovertank. Before each battle, you must buy equipment to add to your hovertank's weaponry, defenses, or special abilities. During battle, you will compete against deadlier and deadlier opponents. These opponents, either controlled by the computer or by people on the network, on a modem, or via the Internet, will have the same goal as you each round. After the battle, you can use your points to upgrade your hover craft. Add plasma weapons or better armor or equip it with jump jets or better sensors or tracking systems. You have the ability to modify your hover craft to fit your playing style!

A near miss...

Play against the computer or against people via modem, LAN, or Internet!

While Trials of Battle's single player play is exceptional due to its native OS/2 AI (artificial intelligence) engine, Trials of Battle really shines in multiplayer play. If you have a modem, are on a network, or are on the internet, you can play your friends (or strangers) in the arena. Unlike most games (including Quake), Trials of Battle can combine the multiplayer options. This means that if you are on a LAN but a friend of yours isn't, your friend can call in and join the game with you and your friends on your LAN. Few games can compete with Trials of Battle when it comes to multiplayer play.

Connect people from the LAN or modem, or Internet

Logging in to the Internet

Designed from the ground up for 32bit multitasking operating systems!

The gameplay of Trials of Battle could be described as a combination of Quake (fast paced, true 3D texturing) and Mech Warrior (preparing your armored vehicle, locking weapons, and hostile landscapes). This makes for very potent play.

Trials of Battle is the action game OS/2 users have been waiting for! Get it today!

War is hell

Here are some of the cool technical features of Trials of Battle:

• MULTIPLAYER! If you're running OS/2 Warp 4 you can sit down and fight your co-workers, roommates, or family on a local area network. Support for playing over the modem or via the Internet is also available and you can even connect them all together.
• DART Sound Support! No action game would be playable without the ability to have excellent mixed sound. Trials of Battle uses DART to get the best digitized sound performance from OS/2 Warp possible. It is the first commercial OS/2 game to support on the fly digital mixing.
• DIVE For a modern first person action game to succeed, good video performance is a must! Trials of Battle delivers great graphics combined with great frame-rates (on a high end 486DX2 or better) to keep in immersed in the Trials of Battle world!
• A TRUE 3D World! Unlike DOOM, Trials of Battle delivers a truly 3D world meaning you can be above or below your enemy as well as to the side!
• Light Sources! Similar to Quake, Prey, and Unreal, Trials of Battle has real light sources that illuminate the areas around them.

Requirements:

• OS/2 Warp
• DIVE Supported video card (virtually all video cards support DIVE)
• 486DX2-66mhz MINIMUM (486DX2-75 or better recommended)

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To a distant world to represent humanity in the ultimate test of skill!

Quite a fire fight!

New vehicles for battle!

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