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Strategy and action combined, BRILLIANT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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

Best Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Tribes is the best game of all time, of any genre, in any human culture in the history of the Earth.

If Tribes had a downside, it would be that the player, when in the Tribes universe, no longer is affected by the normal rules of Time that we all know and are normally governed by. The side effects of this include Agelessness (and the consequences thereof) and, after prolonged exposure, inability to percieve time correctly when not in the Tribes universe (sped up/slowed down perception of time, as well as, in extreme cases, 'slippage', the inability to maintain a fixed path through the flow of time). Also Tribes simulates a mild euphoria that tends to keep the Tribes player in the Tribes universe indefinitely. If properly supervised, the Tribes player can be brought back out of the Tribes universe at regular intervals, but it must be a slow transition to avoid permanent damage.

Great 1st Person Shooter!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game itself has a very neat idea. The game is mainly for team play. And if you're like me this is the kind of game you have been waiting for where you get together with a team and have large bases with turrets and different types of weapons and armor that add to the action.

There is two really neat things about it. One is the size of the maps. It takes about 20 minutes to run from one end to the other, making it very enjoyable for team play. The other is not only can you play as a 1st Person view with a gun but you also have access to ships, in which you can pilot(fly). You can have an ordinary fighter or you can pilot a dropship which yourself and others can transport yourselves to the enemies base.

The action in the game is very fun indeed. You have to penetrate the opponent's base and get inside with out being killed by the team mates and the turrets. Once inside you take out weapon generaters and armor disposels. If you succeed in destroying all their main targets, your team wins.

Very strategic and definitly fun to play with friends on network LAN or the internet. This is definitly a must-buy if you're a 1st Person fan.

Its a pretty cool game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well I've played this game a couple of times and its very well made. The graphics are so-so, and the textures for the ground look real close up. The guns aren't really unique, and some resemble a different gun but same look. Its good for people with 56K modems because the lag isn't bad, just depends on how much lag a game has. But overall, its pretty good.

BEST GAME FOR PC TODAY

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this game is great you can't go wrong with this game if you like online battles. The game is about guys in armor going around and fighting in exciting battles of deathmatch, Capture the Flag,capture and hold and much more. I have a very crappy computer and the game still runs flawlessly. 1 POINT Once you play this game you will never want to get off

Looking for more than a game?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: February 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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.

If You Can't Get Into The Star Trek Convention...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: April 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

...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.

Fun Fun Fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

What can I say. It is a great multiplayer game. The best even. It is an old game, but will never get old.

Totally Rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the best multiplayer first-person shooter game out there, hands down. If you like this kind of game, it's a must-buy.

This is the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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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