Five years after the events of Tribes 2, neo-barbarian tribes are trying to take over new worlds on the frontier of human space. Tribal warriors in powered armor enter the fray, relying on individual skill and courage to win this war. Take control of J. Ransom, a newblood who is fighting for not just his world, but his Tribe. Tribes is back with a vengeance. The ultimate high-flying , multiplayer battle experience returns with deadly new weapons, faster and more versatile flight, in-depth strategic team action, and the first-ever Tribes single-player campaign.
This free-to-play game boasts classic Tribes combat mechanics like jetpacks, skiing, and vehicles, while introducing multiple classes into the battlefield. Play as any of nine classes, with unique weapon loadouts and abilities. As you shoot down enemies or accomplish objectives, you earn credits to upgrade base defenses, access vehicles, or call in tactical strikes, leading to escalating battles the longer each engagement lasts.
Face off against other players in fast-paced deadly arenas to decide which Tribe is superior! All rights reserved. All trademarks referenced herein are the properties of their respective owners. There's a definite mark of 'could do better' stamped on the armaments and controls of ground vehicles - and it's not helped by the fact that the levels that showcase them are often among the more uninspiring.
It's usually more fun to travel on jet-boot anyway. Another issue that'll raise hackles is difficulty, because when it wants to be, Tribes: Vengeance is extremely challenging. As I've mentioned, I thoroughly enjoyed the nail-biting provided by the ludicrously tight time limits in Julia's arena challenges, but there's more than a little dissent in the ZONE ranks as to how unforgiving it gets. The game never reaches Far Cry Volcano levels of keyboard battery, but later levels do set up ambushes that coupled with an occasional hazy objective are guaranteed to set your teeth on edge.
Then again, my greatest fear for Vengeance was that the Al wouldn't be able to cope with the extra dimension, and this really hasn't become a huge issue in the final product.
It's clear that you're not playing online the opposition don't ski as much as you do and run in odd patterns when you fire at them from a long range , but they are still proficient enough in the exchange of the explosive disc and the general skirmish that you rarely notice the cracks in the set-up.
I was making notes on a train last night in preparation for this review, and in a clearly countryside-addled state wrote the apocryphal words, "Tribes: Vengeance just feels satisfying in the same way that ice-cream tastes nice. Tribes: Vengeance just feels right. Its fun lies in simple movement - something overlooked in all other high-octane blasters, and it gives you such a feeling of fluidity, control and desire for selfimprovement, that on a basic level it's extremely hard to dislike.
There are issues, yes, but coupled with such an intriguing narrative structure, you get the impression that this is a game that will be fondly remembered for many years to come.
Personally, I'm hooked. I want a pair of jet-boots and I want to be a princess more than ever before. Some quarters have been worried about core tenets of Tribes multiplayer being lost in Vengeance. The big fear was that teamwork wouldn't survive the supposed Unreal Toumament-ization of affairs, coupled with the belief that much loved aspects such as the Shockiance, cloak pack and sensor-jammer had been lost in transition.
We'll have an in-depth review of Vengeance's multiplayer masterclass in Online Zone as soon as servers are up and burners are burning, but until then my initial impressions of the beta test are a broad thumbs-up. I'm a mainstream muppet, and I don't speak for the purists, but myself and Mr Holden have been having a blast with it and will continue to do so for many months to come.
Capture the Flag will remain our main focus, but my fiddles with restricted-spawn Arena deathmatchs, fuel-stealing, a superb game in which opposing teams attempt to throw a ball into a goal and the classic Tag-style game known as Rabbit have all felt like someone's actually managed to give me the moon on a stick. There are some superb maps in the full package as well - from Garuda Gorge's simplicity to Junk's vehicle battleground - and all the smugness I've spoken about in single-player is magnified many times when you actually connect your discs with a real human player.
Aficionados will moan - it's in their nature, but they needn't worry that much since they'll be more than catered for by the deluge of grumble-fixes and mods that'll flood fansites after Vengeance's release. Everyday folk like myself, meanwhile, will be left with the vanilla version - and it's looking like we'll love every minute of it. I'm talking about a silky-smooth single-player game with silky-smooth narrative that leaps between cliaracters and time-frames with consummate ease.
I'm also talking about one of the coolest villains in PC gaming - the metal cyborg Mercury, who you control in the best parts of the game, is astonishingly good fun to ski and slide around his massive levels. I just love this game - even if you strip away the action, the shooting and the story, the way it plays just feels like relaxing in a warm, soapy bath.
Admittedly, at first the petulant princesses are a touch annoying, and the plot's family orientation occasionally gets Coronation Street-y, but my god more people should play this game. It's satisfaction bottled, blended and sieved straight onto a DVD.
I love it. The Tribes community didn't like the multiplayer, shouted about it and ignored it as much as they could. VU were a bit sniffy about it and didn't even release a patch that Irrational had made for it.
What's more, the game was abysmally marketed in the US, and suffered from the old chestnut of having female lead characters in an FPS. Don't they know we prefer boys? Probably the wonderful touch of having you play as Julia when she's only six years old, and running around an imperial palace while it's under siege.
There aren't many games that see young girls being traumatised through incessant destruction and accompanied by giant killing machines. Apart from maybe in Biosliock. Irrational are odd ones, aren't they? Steve: "What other game lias you at one point trying to assassinate a player who you've controlled, at another point playing an interplanetary sports star and at another that same person as a six-year-old kid?
There Are two schools of thought on Tribes games. The first, smaller group finds them as addictive as a purple fruit-pastille filled with crack. When they log on to the gigantic multiplayer Capture The Flag battles they delight in the free-roaming 3D landscapes. They've mastered the art of skiing' and using the physics and contours of the terrain to launch themselves at the enemy, and know everything about every conceivable tribal warrior from their favourite colour to the serial codes stamped on the inside of their armour.
They were also horrified when Dynamix, the erstwhile developer of the series, was shut down in The second school of thought joins a game of Tribes 2 and doesn't even have time to say, "Cool! I've got a jetpack," before being shot in the head by a pre-pubescent American from a distance of one and a half miles. So they play Counter-Strike instead. This is where Ken Levine and his band of merry men at Irrational Games come in.
Famed for creating the awesome System Shock 2 , Irrational suggested that what the Tribes universe needed was a strong single-player element that would introduce the newbie to the physics, tactics and mentality of a seasoned Tribes-hack.
A solid solo experience that wouldn't be a glorified tutorial or Battlefield esque experiment in single-player drabness, but a game that would stand on its own two jet thrusters and plunge disc-launchers into the mainstream. We took a trip to Irrational recently to check out the new game, interrupting Ken Levine's breakfast to ask him how the hell he intended to jam all of the intricacies and character classes of Tribes multiplayer into a solo FPS. Initially, we learnt that Levine puts a remarkable amount of sugar into his porridge.
Secondly, we saw that the way Tribes: Vengeance is dealing with narrative is nothing short of revolutionary. We've put our focus on one family whose story spans 20 years, with the narrative going back and forth in time to cover it. Within this you'll be able to play as six or seven different characters. So, in one mission you could be playing a second-class citizen, a Phoenix Tribesman, fighting for your life in a badass suit of heavy armour, while in the next you could be seeing through the eyes of a six-year-old imperial princess.
Seeing as she's so small, and she's got a rocket strapped to her back, the physics are way overpowered for her. It's quite a ride! It's bizarre, we know, but it looks like it's going to work. Speaking of mixed up chronology, Vengeance is actually a prequel to the two previous Tribes games, with Irrational wanting to develop a section of the Tribes back-story that wouldn't need reams of fanboy knowledge to get into. This timeframe, untouched by any of the other 12 games set within the Tribes universe, has given Irrational a lot of freedom in terms of narrative, but has also had a huge effect on the design and aesthetics of the game.
Jetpacks will be spewing out black smoke, stuff like that. It's all about functionality. The use of the Unreal engine means that this won't be the only change in the way Tribes struts its stuff. The trademark rolling green hills will still be there, but there are incredible new styles of map such as abandoned, ruined cities with decaying skyscrapers that will stun even the casual Tribes fan with its potential for online carnage. Another mouth-watering prospect is levels set in huge arenas specifically designed for the skiing, sliding and other three-dimensional tomfoolery that sets Tribes apart from the conventional strafe 'n' shoot mentality.
You play as her in the context of a championship match in an arena with all these amazing slopes and skating surfaces.
So far, so good. But we all know that if Levine's crew bugger up the multiplayer then thousands of outraged Tribes fanatics will leave their rooms, blink in the daylight and hang him from the nearest streetlamp with a mouse lead.
Even the suggestion that the fabled disc-launcher might have vertical discs instead of the established horizontal sent shockwaves over the Internet. Levine knows the risks, but is saying approximately chuff-all about online play until they have more than a 35 per cent build to show us. From the maps we've seen, though, it should be something pretty special. The Irrational lads have been in close contact with the Tribes online community, desperate not to disappoint their fanbase, and have even hired a prominent member of the mod-community to be their lead multiplayer designer.
The direction in which Levine and co are taking the Tribes franchise is undeniably risky, and if the game doesn't please either the newcomer or the old guard then they're truly up Shazbot-creek without a Burner.
But Irrational certainly has the talent to pull it off, binding an epic and revolutionary story with a vastly under-appreciated style of gameplay. As long as they keep the hardcore appeased, it looks like they're on to a winner. For those of you who think Tribes is just a shit TV show from Downunder, think again - there are many things that make Tribes 2 stand out from the FPS crowd.
Primarily there is skiing: the art of continuing to press the Jump key as you slide down a hill. In this way you build up momentum, and if you aim for a slight hillock or bump and use your jetpack at the right time, you can fling yourself into the atmosphere at quite ridiculous speeds and elevations. In fact, Tribes is one of the few games in which the old-fashioned rocket-jump is still king.
In this way Tribes is a lot like a sports game, in that you hone your movement and reactions the more you play and however good you are, there's always room for improvement. Plus it's one of few online games that actually succeeds in eliciting teamwork from its participants.
This is why Tribes is good. Sermon ends. Crappy isn't it, how every blockbuster from the last few months has been a multiplayer letdown? We've gone from the underwhelming Far Cry, to the plain awful Doom 3, arriving at the new Half-Life to discover Valve just left the multiplayer feature out altogether.
Add in the resolutely single-player Grand Theft Auto, which removed all traces of network options when it became a console game some years back, and you can see why everyone's still defusing bombs and rescuing bloody hostages.
So it was more invigorating than a 3am hedgehog rubdown to return to the world of hills, valleys, jetpacks and unflattering armour does my bum look enormously coated in metal in this? Vengeance is the 12th game from the Starsiege universe and the third from Tribes - a groundbreaking multiplayer franchise that has never once had a single-player campaign foisted upon it, nor some cockamamie storyline involving a warrior princess in unsuitable clothing on a quest to send us all to sleep.
No, wait, it has. Porter reviewed it in issue Still, the original was a trailblazer in its day, and Vengeance was written to be a concentrate of everything that made its predecessors great -an abridged yet intensified version for fans and freshers alike.
Tribes pioneered the use of large-scale, outdoor player maps, not to mention teams, classes and vehicles, and despite suffering the ignominy of its developer being disbanded and its code being dumped on the Internet as freeware, it still plays well and is famously lag-free. That's all the more impressive when you consider it was written entirely in-house by Dynamix and, contrary to popular belief, was not licensed from id or Epic. Sadly, community support has waned over the years as people moved to the likes of Unreal Tournament , Battlefield, Planetside -and all the other games which owe Tribes a beer.
Fast forwarding to the present day, Vengeance uses a barely disguised Unreal engine -something which in any other setting would have me banging the desk with my hand. Here, the anime colours, sci-fi gothic architecture and general sense of non-realism hence the name, I guess make new Tribes seem even more otherworldly and even more, well, Tribesey. In short, no complaints. There are three armour classes to choose from - light being a fast mover but vulnerable to enemy fire, heavy being a slow but brawny bastard, and medium striking a balance between the two.
But unlike previous versions, where inventory size was related to fcchest size, each armour is now restricted to a maximum of three weapons.
Combined with the fact that Vengeance maps are malle,than those of its predecessors, k and that the ancient Tribal art of skiing - in layman's terms, aquaplaning on p rocks - is achieved simply by leaning on the space bar, it means that a heavy suit is no longer the impediment it once was and can even be used for the odd capping run.
The gun count is identical to the last game although the actual line-up has changed. The Mortar Launcher, Chaingun, Grenade Launcher and Spinfusor, now a trademark of the game and lethal in the right hands, have all made it to Vengeance. There's a newcomer in the shape of the Grappler, allowing players to do Spidey tricks from cavern roofs, hitch rides with passing vehicles, or dangle above the flag and wait for an unwary enemy to pass underneath.
In addition, the Jackal Rifle has been tweaked, and now requires ammunition as well as energy in an effort to stop players spending whole games sniping from the map boundaries. The Targeting Laser has gone, as have a number of toys much beloved by veterans the Stealth Pack being the most obvious example , but this was done to make the game more accessible - Tribes needs fresh blood, and a bewildering array of equipment and options only serves to alienate the majority of casual players.
Tribes was always the polar opposite of the competition, presenting you with colossal landscapes rather than narrow corridors, and allowing you to drive or fly rather than trudge everywhere on foot.
We take such things for granted nowadays, but five years ago these were revolutionary ideas -and sadly, Vengeance has done little to advance them. The map size and player count have been halved so that the exhilarating scale of your surroundings is lost a situation made worse by the way everything not in your immediate vicinity is enveloped in a graphics engine-friendly fog , and the vehicle tally has been cut by a third to make the game more melee oriented. While not a bad thing per se, it's had the effect of making battles rather conventional and less reliant on tactics - criticisms you would never normally level at Tribes.
But before you consign the game to your mental junkyard and move on, do please understand that Vengeance isn't a bad game. It has its flaws, as do its rivals. It's not quite what existing players wanted, but then it's become more approachable to newcomers.
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