Okay, after trawling msg boards for hours, this is how you create a game:

Basically the multiplayer interface is really really retarded, have lionhead ever played any games like Total Annihilation?

1. Go to Online games (cos everyones lan is on the internet???)

The next screen should have LAN and any Dial Up Networking options you have set up,...
2. Select LAN from this screen

now here comes the daftest bit,..

3. Do Nothing on the empty screen, nothing just sit there,..

this is how you 'make a game'

Then you get the other people you want to play with to do the steps 1 & 2, when they get to the LAN list screen your name should be there! (yay) they then click on your name and both players change to a game setup screen,.. with very few options,.. press start and your away,...

got that

So I'd say its definately one aimed at the single player market then :)

I'd never really thought of it as anything but single player and I doubt I'll ever be playing it multiplayer at all. Tribes 2 is gonna be my next multiplayer fix.

I think multiplayer is just token, its just there so people can join a game against each other and flex the size of thier 'creatures' and how much life they've wasted training them.

yeah, I flex my creature often. Oh, were we still talking about the game?

by the sounds of the reviews and stuff its all geared at multiplayer, you can go chill with other gods in rooms n stuff.

they're releasing some free expansion along the track for battle arenas n stuff apparantly