Your goal is to shut down the core, which has gone haywire.
Even the rigid right angle turn rule can be bent!Īs chief artificer Larry Lodestone, your goal is to make your way through the intricate designs of The Artifact. Speed, map size, trail length and timeouts are just the start. The game supports custom maps (sadly without an editor) and just about every gameplay variable can be tweaked to your, or more likely, the server owner's heart content. In Sumo Mode, everyone needs to stay inside a shrinking circle to stay alive. Each team owns a Fortress Zone and needs to defend it while trying to conquer the enemy teams' Fortress. In Fortress Mode, two teams face each other.
There are other objectives than mere survival. Online, you will find many variations of the core gameplay principle. Pick a server that sounds fun from the server browser, hop in, stay and play there for as long as you like with the same people. The last survivor wins.įocus is firmly on online play. In the most basic game mode, you can only make sudden right angle turns and are trapped with others in an inescapable arena.
In Armagetron Advanced, you ride a bizarre vehicle that can never stop and leaves a deadly trail behind.