There’s just nothing quite like Tribes. A huge sci-fi universe Dynamix created long ago and explored through their mech simulator games, strategies and fast paced multiplayer-only FPS titles definitely has interesting story and ideas to it, even if not exactly novel. But it wasn’t the story that made Tribes be as exciting and incredible as it is… I mean, they are those “multiplayer-only FPS titles” mentioned before, there’s not a much story needed for those to be good. Far future, different Tribes of people with jetpacks locked in an eternal conflict that, for whatever reason uses the typical classic FPS rules of “capture the flag” to win over each other – that’s all you need to know. The rest is speed, inertia, skiing over the ground and using projectile-based weaponry across gigantic levels to somehow snipe enemies flying through the air.
And yet, somehow, Tribes: Vengeance exists – a singleplayer first game with really heavy emphasis on story. Made by Irrational Games, fresh off their success with System Shock 2 and Freedom Fighters and soon to get even more love with SWAT 4 and then, of course, BioShock. And this game, for whatever reason, was very quickly dropped by the publisher Vivendi Universal Games and was all but forgotten.
