Tribes Ascend

[Spartan]

Probably old new to most of you,probably a lot of you have never heard of the tribes series but I completely messed my best pants when I saw the announce for this.

I have been a huge fan of the series since the first game.Tribes 2 was excellent but released at a time when SA gaming online was fairly weak.Tribes Vengeance followed a few years later with a SP element that was poor and a MP element that was sub par(Thanks Irrational Games) and because of it one of the greatest MP games series was lost to the new generation.But...

Its back!

The revival of the series has been announced:
Official Website

For those of you who never played Tribes or Tribes 2.This was the start of large scale MP gaming.Starsiege Tribes was released 4 years before the Battlefield series started and was way ahead of it's time.Tribes Ascend will be MP only and the successor to Tribes 2.

Some info on Tribes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starsiege:_Tribes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribes_2

Get ready to rise again...

 

[Faffa]

Looks pretty kewl. Will keep an eye on it, see it releases in 2011, dunno how I'll cope with it, seeing the plethora of awesome games heading my way in 2011!

Here's the teaser:

 

[Xero]

I hated the first installments, botched MP, useless class system and dreadfull 1970's SciFi Movie Landscapes
It won't be too hard to improve on the last ones, Vengeance..lol. indeed

 

[diabolus]

If you want to get a kind of preview of what this Tribes might be like, go play Global Agenda (it is now free to play game) . It is same developer doing this new Tribes and chances are 99% they are using the same "engine" . In fact they would've done this in Global Agenda at some point and decided to make a new game....

Got nothing to lose : http://www.globalagendagame.com/

It is actually a great game to jam in.

Fan made gameplay clip:

 

[Spartan]

Same studio so you already have an idea of what it will be like.And as far as I can tell the engine will not be the same.Tribes will be using the UT3 engine.

 

[to0kenZA]

OMW! Awesome!!!!

Tribes was by far one of the coolest games ever! I think even Halo's MP stole some ideas from the original tribes

Can't wait for this!

 

[diabolus]

Same studio so you already have an idea of what it will be like.And as far as I can tell the engine will not be the same.Tribes will be using the UT3 engine.

Global Agenda already uses the UT3 engine....

The issue back when GA launched was that the UT3 engine struggled with very large maps where you want to put 50 vs 50 matches in . So they started to modify GA and the UT3 engine to do that, and then they realized all this work is better in a new game and that's where they bought the Tribes Franchise.

So HiRez decided to keep GA a Team Fortress 2 type of game [10 vs 10 arena type of battles] , but they have experimented with the map sizes and layouts in GA . So you will experience the jetpacks , the maps that requires you to fight in the air, jump and fall down large distances and even jetpacking across open spaces to reach objectives.

Obviously GA also got a whole PvE game that is all about 10 man raids, 5 man "dungeons" and even solo questing similar to what you find in a game like WoW, except it's a shooter.