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Summary: If You Can't Get Into The Star Trek Convention...
Review: ...and you've lost your job at Radio Shack, then this is the game for you. "Tribes" is little more than a bad version of "capture the flag". It's a lame first-person shooter game in which your character can actually jump up and down (wow!), and even "communicate" with other players through such risque futuristic expletives as "Shazzbot!" If this game was a kid in your high school, you'd give him a swirly...if he weren't already so sad. Loads of way better games out there.
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Summary: 1337 G4|V|3 Q\/\/N5 4LL!
Review: 7h15 r3V13\/\/ 15 f0r 7h3 1337 0nLy 17 r0c|<5 j00 5h0uLd g37 17 N0\/\/-R41D3R 0u7 PH34R M3!
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Summary: Looking for more than a game?
Review: Aside from playing the game itself, the installation includes a client chat (IRC) program where after or before a good tribes game, you can talk with other gamers. Within the IRC, there are dozens of established teams or clubs called tribes (what else!). Each tribe is organized differently and holds meetings and arranges matches for the claim of world's best tribe! Pretty cool because even though the traditional map levels are the same, competition is intense!.. Tribes allows you to make long lasting friends via IRC. The shortcomings of tribes... First of all, if you wish to experience the music of tribes, you need to keep the CD loaded with a standard installation. The music sounds like queer sony playstation composition, and it hiccups each time it has to repeat. Secondly and seriously, tribes is infamous for crashing all of a sudden (write down that IP server address before you play!). The patches Tribes offers generally causes more problems than solutions (which explains why there have been so many offered). Updates and patches are mysterious. Some patches work for some OS configurations. Don't buy any Voodoo accelerator card because your graphics and color will look like 8-bit Nintendo. Instead, buy a Diamond Viper 770 TNT2 which I am happy to say works flawlessly with Tribes. You should buy this game because it has incredible replay value with dozens of new programmed weapons and deployable objects.
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Summary: jedi196
Review: Best game I've ever played, but watch out, you may become addicted.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: Bought every Action Adventure game that came out for four years. Since I started playing Tribes four months ago I have bought nothing else. Nothing else compares. It's a real-time multi player universe that is only limited by the game physics. Combines the best features of every great game I have ever played, plus adds the human element in a manner never seen in any other game short of a full up military combat simulation. Pick your Tribe, pick your weapons and kick butt trooper! [GZ] Rules
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Summary: Tribes, Is it the best game ever?
Review: Every once in a while, a computer game is released that changes the whole landscape of the industry. First there was Wolfenstein, the first person shooter developed by id. Then there was Doom, which is arguably the most popular game of all time. The five-year-old quake engine is still being used to develop games. Now, there is Tribes, a revolution in the gaming industry; the original first-person shooter that caters only to multi-player online users. Is it a revolution in the gaming industry? That's what this article intends to find out.
We will evaluate this "evolutionary step" and see if it can hold up to all the hype. How does the game compare to traditional first-person shooters? Graphic quality and sound are important aspects of any game; we'll how Tribes holds up to the competition. Finally, how we'll was the games designed. What is it replayability? What options are available?
There are a total of nine weapons to choose from. You can never have all of them. Which weapons you carry also depends on your armor class. There are three armor classes, light, medium, and heavy. The larger you get, the more weapons you can carry, but the heavier you get the less mobile you become. Also, certain weapons are restricted to certain groups. For instance, the laser rifle can only be carried by the light armor class, and the mortar launcher (my favorite weapon of mass destruction) can only be carried by the heavy armor class, or heavies as they are often referred as.
These different armor classes are another innovating feature. Your suite comes with an infinite supply of energy, but you can easily outpace energy generation by using certain weapons, backpacks, or your standard jet pack. Yes, that's right, you can fly. You can also enhance your suite by acquiring performance enhancing backpacks. There are five to choose from . The most notable are: the energy pack, the repair pack, and the shield pack. You can use these to enhance you players ability. The energy pack give your suite a larger energy reserve and helps your suite regenerate its energy faster. The repair pack is used to fix breakable objects in the game, including yourself, but it does so at the expense your suites energy. The shield pack does what the name says. It provides extract protection, also at the expense your suites energy.
There are also deployables. These are objects you can carry around instead of a backpack. You can deploy remote inventory stations (that's were you have to go to get all this neat stuff), motion sensors, remote cameras, and most importantly turrets. Turrets are gun that automatically shoot at an enemy when they are close enough. There are seven deployables in all. The way you use these is the difference between surviving, and becoming mortar fodder. You can carry miscellaneous other things like grenades, mines, beacon, and extra ammo.
Another innovating idea was to include vehicles. All vehicles can only be driven be the driven by the light armor class. You can choose from three vehicle: the scout, the LPC, and the HPC. The scout is a small, very fast, and maneuverable person hover jet. It is the only vehicle with a weapons, a single missile launcher. The LPC, or light person carrier, is used to carry people. It can carry three people in all, including the driver. The LPC is considerably less maneuverable than the Scout. The HPC, or heavy person carrier, can carry five people total, and is even less wielding than the LPC.
With all these different choices, you would expect it to take a while before you're proficient. The general first-person shooter ideals hold to the game, but you aren't playing with stupid artificial intelligence anymore. Tribes takes a little more time to figure out than most games, only because you have so many options available to you. There are eight single person training missions. They teach what Tribes is all about, and they take about an hour to finish. With the jet pack, Tribes utilizes the third dimension extremely well. It takes practice and a little help to be able to truly believe you "own" your opponents. Luckily, there is a dedicated core of Tribes players to help you along the way.
Tribes supports the community aspect of the first-person shooters (FPS) extremely will. Before, if people wanted to take the initiative and form some sort of group, it was very hard to communicate. Most often, group member would be spread out across North America, and the traditional FPS didn't have a way to help their players communicate. Tribes includes a chat client built into the game. People are able to, instead of automatically starting to play, join different chat groups. This feature was essential to the survival of Tribes. It gave people the ability to communicate easily. Now, there are hundreds of teams where thousands of people practice and play together. As a result, the Tribes community is extremely eel versed in the nuances of the game, and the overall player population is quite proficient. This also causes problems with new players. With almost almost anybody can start playing Tribes right away, the curve to be able to compete and get to a point where you can find a team to take is very steep.
All of these aspects involving the concepts and game play mean nothing if the game isn't good to look at. Let's face it. In today's computer world, if a game isn't some kind of amazing graphical miracle, it doesn't have a chance. Tribes would be a let down to some people in this department. While game like Quake 3 take great pride in graphical detail, the Tribes designers used the minimalists approach to graphics. While you can't say that graphic design is shoddy, the barren landscape and inornate buildings give the game sparse feeling. It's my belief the designers had very good reasons for this. This game is designed to have around 20-30 players in a game at one time. It's also designed to move fast. These two things take a huge hit on you computer's performance. When the game was originally released in 1998, the average computer just didn't have the processing power for a while bunch of pretty eye candy. I'm not saying that this game doesn't look good. The characters and weapons are well rendered, and over all the game is fun to watch. I'm just saying it is very, vary barren. As a courtesy, Tribes also includes a sound track which helps get you into the game. The sounds match game play very well and do nothing but enhance your gaming experience.
This game offers a ridiculous amount of game play. I've been playing since it's release, and I see no end to the options. Because of the huge amount of talented and enthused supporters this game has, different groups have taken it upon themselves to add to the game. Now, there are so many variations to the game, the only way it could die is if the developers decide to stop supporting it. Even though the game has been out for two years, there are hundreds of players on a number of different servers at any given times. This is a tribute to the game's innovation.
Tribes is definitely a revolution in the gaming industry. While the graphics reflects the two-year-old gaming engine, this game will continue to wow audiences world wide. Its innovating ideas in game play and design ensure Tribes a place in history. The additions of armor classes, vehicle, and team play are just the tip of the iceberg. This is definitely one game yo should own.
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Summary: Excellent first-person shooter by the now defunct Dynamix
Review: First, I'd like to give proper respects to the now defunct development studio Dynamix of Medford, Oregon. They made some of the best computer games in the business. Let them rest in peace. Second, I'd like to review one of Dynamix's best games they created, the second game in the Starseige universe, Starseige: TRIBES. I'd like to say that I got this game by accident. I've been a beta tester for Sierra (the owner of Dynamix), and after testing a particular piece of software, they let me pick any software title available in their catalog. At the time, since I did not have a very fast computer, I picked Earthseige 2. However, they sent me Starseige 2 (aka Starseige: TRIBES). I was not able to play it, however, I kept it on hand, and a couple years later, after I moved from Seattle to Nashville, I had a Pentium II/266, fine for this game. I first played it, and was BLOWN AWAY. Not by it's graphics, mind you (for my current setup does not have 3D acceleration capability), but by the gameplay and the atmosphere. A purely multiplayer game, with strategic elements (where you don't necessary shoot anything that moves). This was one of the first of its kind. Also, the popularity of this game was unheard of when it first came out in 1997. Over 2 million users of the Dynamix servers - incredible. There is no lack of players to play online with Starseige: TRIBES. This game raised the bar of FPS games, and after Starseige: TRIBES, FPS games were never the same. Try it - you won't regret it. :)
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Summary: Great
Review: I agree. I have bought many games and I have found "Tribes" to be one of the best. With hundreds of servers, great graphics,and gameplay how could you go wrong?
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Summary: Strategy and action combined, BRILLIANT!
Review: I have been playing tribes for a while now, when it first came out, i bought it, not knowing what to expect. Well, lets just say I became hooked, I played it for hours and never got tired of it. Well it apeared i lost it, and then i recently bought it AGAIN because i love it so much. The perfect weapon armor and building strategy combined with the action that is great, the veichles and everything else, the thing i found most usefull was the jetpack, it really added a new twist to the game, this made it more than just another ordinary game like quake or unreal. GO BUY THIS GAME! You will not be disapointed
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Summary: This is the best
Review: I haven't played online yet but my friend has it and he has. I can tell it's going to be awesome to play just from that. I can't wait till I can play.
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