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Incredible

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

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

Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

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?

Looking for total combat immersion?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: November 18, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Then look no further. This game is so good, you can play the demo for months and be satisfied. Once you upgrade to the full version you will be blown away by the complexities this game offers. You have so many weapons to choose from, each with specific uses, strengths and weaknesses. And the best part is that they are all useful depending YOUR style and tactics. This game is not a "find the BFG and hold court" style game. Half-Life, Quake X and the rest can quibble over LAN-based & single-player play, but Tribes is a far superior internet-based multiplayer game and I thought Half-life was the best game I ever played!

It's the best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 06, 1999
Author: Amazon User

There aren't really any words to explain Tribes but that it's cool. It's the most creative game ever! But make sure you have a great video card and a really good modem or cable hook up. This fast action game will get you hooked!

Addictive Tribes

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 28, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Tribes is an Idictive game with endless weapon selections. The only down fall to this game is that there are no real offline training to really give a "newbie" the feel of online battle. I wouuld give it 4 rating.

Definite must buy!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I wish that they had a rating of 4.8 since that is what this game deserves. The net code is so clean that I am amazed at how well it runs on my 56kb modem. The game is loaded with several weapons and armor classes. Only the light armors may fly planes, and the game has an interesting internal balance. But if you want crazy off the wall weapons then many servers run special mods that add boundless versions of everything. You can find servers that allow you to fly endlessly and fire hundreds of mortars in a few seconds. One problem is that I bought the game so far past its initial release date that there were few newbies for me to fight. So I basically get my butt handed to me by the experienced players. But you get better, and it has great replay value. Unfortunately I seem to have lost a little interest in it because the servers play the same maps way too often.

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.

No better online game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is fantastic. It has an automatic game search which will check the internet for current games that are underway. It will also tell you how many people are playing and how many the server will accept, along with ping rates. This makes it extremely easy to find a site that you can join with little or no lag. The game itself is a blast. With numerous armor types, weapons, and defensive items the game can't be beat. It does have one flaw however, this is that it doesn't have a decent single player mode. What it does have is a training mode which lacks considerably considering the number of things that you can do in the real game. Overall, this game is unbelievable. Once you rise in your skill level it's a real blast. When you are first beginning the game don't be upset when you die over and over again by more aggressive players, this game does take quite a bit of getting used to before you're able to tackle the big boys.

Good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Tribes is a great ON-LINE game! I was extremely happy with the fact that is runs very very smoothly on-line with my 28k modem! Of course I also am using a P3, and 450 Mhz... But the MAJOR flaw in this game is that fact that basically, there is NO single player game... You have a couple training missions, but hardly tells you what you need to know... But it is still a GREAT GREAT game...

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.

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