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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Starsiege: Tribes full install
Summary: OK, so it's not really newbie friendly...at least the people online aren't. But, gameplay is good, grapihcs are ok...but, you have to realize this is an older game! Still fun though! read more
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Starsiege: Tribes full install
Summary: What my idiot counterparts seem to not understand is that this game IS from the 90's. Sierra is now giving this game away instead of selling it. read more
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Starsiege: Tribes full install
Pros: Addicting, supports better graphics if your computer has an even halfway decent video card, contains Single and Multiplayer with an easy to do tutorial that gets you on the field quick.
Cons: Nothing. To the idiots who complained, let me counteract your thoughts. To the person who said crappy graphics: First of all the game was made in the 90's, were you expecting 128mb GFX required with high definition volumes? Total moron. Also, if you went to options and changed your driver to the one that is connected to your video card, your graphics WOULD enhance. To the person who said 135mb is too big, obviously you have never played a game, because on average, games take up over 500mb these days. For the time it came out, it was a decent load, but it just became free when Vengeance was released, so you should have a computer that has sufficient room, not to mention it's not the game's fault you have dial-up. To the person who said there are lots of hackers: you're just an idiot, because there aren't. I play at least once or twice a week and the only "hacks" I have ever seen are people who have a scipt that lets you hold down spacebar to jump repeatedly as opposed to pounding spacebar over and over. Finally, whoever said it won't update on their computer: once again, it's not the games problem, it's something with your computer. It updated fine on both my XP Pro and my XP Home. DOWNLOAD THIS GAME, IF YOU READ THE NEGATIVES, READ MY COUNTERACTIONS. DON'T BE FOOLED BY PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO REVIEW CORRECTLY.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
2 stars
Version: Starsiege: Tribes full install
Pros: solid game, has multiplayer online, has single player, the uninstaller
Cons: advertising of other games, advertising of at&t, doesnt update on my media center xp comp , butt ugly graphics, try wolfenstein enemy territory for a better game.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Starsiege: Tribes full install
"One of the best squad-based games ever made: fact."
Pros: First and foremost, get this program from Gamer's Hell. You can grab the game, it's patch, and the manual, all for twenty megabytes less than here in a nice, easy zip file.
Now, Tribes. It's an inductee into Gamespot's "Greatest Games of all Time" feature, and for good measure. At it's release, it included so many things that were ahead of its time. Huge maps that go in and out of terrain, sprawling bases that go for miles underground, support for 32 players (that number has gone up, of course), vehicles, weapons, classes, you name it, Tribes did it. In fact, with all that innovation it still holds up today.
The game is primarily online, team based, where each side does something while killing and halting the other side's plans. Yeah, games have done it in many forms, and Tribes doesn't deliver difference in this category. What it succeeds in doing is making the game a full 3D shooter. You get this feel from the default jetpack, which (when not moving forward) will bring you as high as a five story building in game terms. This makes the game pretty hard to master, and even new players will be disorientated at first. Perhaps even a little motion sick.
Once you learn how to shoot into the sky and your enemies and deal with the, then the combat is like no other. With your team and their team flying around you, scouts zipping back and forth in the highest altitude, moles sneaking into the trenches...you're in a point of gaming bliss, and here it is, laid out for you for free. Yes, there is a free lunch, and you're reading a review on it.
Once you go deeper and see what the veterans do when you're off getting your head blown off, the game gives yet another layer, this time to strategy, to master. Not only to you have placeable turrets and radar to warn and defend against enemies, but you have command stations that let a leader set "waypoints." It gets even deeper later.
This isn't even the tip of the iceberg, but this review is limited on words, so bye for now...
Cons: A few downloads extra will get your new Tribes install up to snuff, such as Hudbot, a program that makes your screen layout a little nicer. You'll also want Spoonbot, a handy computer to play against when the internet blows up. And finally, all of your glorious maps. In fact, might I say the maps are a pro on this game, because there are just so many maps. I have well into a hundred on this computer.
If you did decide to disregard my advice on the alternate download. find and search for "Tribes patch 1.8 to 1.11" to get your game into gear, because this one isn't all the way where it's supposed to be (in its current form, it doesn't even support OpenGL).
The game's visuals, even with Hudbot's little improvements on textures, still isn't great, but it's passable once you start adding a few of the texture packs for it that fans have a assembled. What you will be looking at, though, is a last decade game, abet a nice looking one.
While there is no music, the sound space has been kept fairly clean for your own playlist (there's even a CD player hidden in there, type "userCD();" into the console), so that's neither bad nor good. It's just part of the game. There's no chat, though, so you're going to have to do with external programs, such as TeamSpeak.
So in conclusion (I wish I had more space, I'd keep ranting) Tribes is still today one of the best team based games I have ever experienced. I am still amazed at how much the developers and fans poured into this game, and it will never end. With all the mods, maps, and things to master, I haven't seen it all, and I never will. But I want to.
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