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Tribes 1 And Tribes 2 Free Downloads Available
James Cho writes "Starsiege: TRIBES (typically known as "Tribes 1") and Tribes 2 for the PC have been released for free download via FilePlanet by Vivendi Universal Games [also try the Tribes 2 BitTorrent link]. The two games stand as pioneers of the outdoor combat sub-genre of first person shooters and of all multiplayer games, influencing Halo and UT2004 among other games. Tribes 1 was the first multiplayer-only shooter, whereas Tribes 2 extended the core unique elements of its predecessor to a greater scale and depth. With this [previously mentioned on Slashdot] free release, VUG is stirring up anticipation for the release of the third Tribes game, Tribes: Vengeance." You'll need to enter a form to get a CD key to play Tribes 2 online.
You know it might not be cutting edge graphics or anything but these two games are good. I remember playing Tribes a long time ago and it was such a unique style of play that drew me in. I haven't found a game quite like it yet and I still don't mind playing the original Tribes every now and then.
Tribes 2 of course had some problems at the beginning, but it's pretty solid now. The game is still fun, supports up to 64 players on a server, and if you like using a lot of vehicles this game is pretty awsome.
I would definetely suggest downloading either or both of these games and try it out, very fun.
Boy! I sure am glad I shelled out $50 for this 3 years ago!
what's with the cynicism? Isn't this exactly what gamers want? The whole abandonware scene is based on the premise that companies aren't making money on a product anymore, therefore freely trading it doesn't impact the company. In this case it's officially sanctioned freeware (which is a not-in-anyway-subtle marketing campaign for the next in the series).
apparently, companies can't win, even when they give stuff away for free.
Lost my Tribes 1 CD several years ago, and Tribes 2 was just never the same (even w/o considering bugs). Tribes 1 has such clean, refined gameplay, and I love the way you can drop into a game and instantly be a contributing member of the team. I'm sure other games must have that, too, but now that I can play Tribes again, I don't care!
Also I'm curious if the free CDKey from fileplanet.com will work with the Loki released Linux Tribes 2 CD if I can find it ... anyone know?
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They can win. I was just expecting it to take a bit longer than 3 years for a full game to become free.
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Boy! I sure am glad I shelled out $50 for this 3 years ago!
Tribes2 is the game that actually burned me enough (Thanks Sierra), I never buy games on release date anymore. I pre-ordered 2 copies for a lan party release date, only to find out it wouldnt run on most of my computers. About 6 months later, I was finally able to play, also had to drop my voodoo5 for a geforce3.
Yes, its nice that Sierra released the game, but they screwed the pooch on this release. Basically it came down to money, they released knowing it was crippled, and had bugs. They fired developers, they really treated employees and gamers like shit. If it wasnt for the developers working on their own time, and working on weekends to fix this, it would of been even worse.
Sierra killed the Tribes market, a 3rd party developer had to show an almost finished product to get Sierra to release a new game.
So yes, people can be a little pissed about the whole Sierra Tribes experience.
Not to be dense, but is there a way to get an online key other than waiting in line at fileplanet? They usually don't give you a key unless you run their installer these days.
I downloaded the stuff from one of the mirrors right away, but can't play online without a key I assume.
I filled in the form on fileplanet, but didn't get an email within half an hour, so I don't know if they are emailing me one or if it will require the FP installer.
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For some odd reason you have to use a seperate link to actually get your Tribes 2 CD Key.
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The link for generating the key is http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/tribes2_cgw/
And yes, you do have to veryify your email address on your Fileplanet account BEFORE you go to that page.
The best free game I've played was Betrayal at Krondor when Sierra decided to give it away to promote Betrayal in Antara. I also would have never discovered Red Baron had Sierra not also given that away to promote, eh, Red Baron 2.
I remember back in the day I bought Tribes II for 240 NIS (4.5NIS=$1)...how many years ago was that...hm...two months, yup that's right, I bought Tribes II two months ago and now they're deciding to release it for free, well atleast now I'll have people to play with :)
I think it is funny that this is an "old game". I still go back and play on fully populated 32 player servers. guess there will be more now. The graphics don't look too dated for a DX7/OGL game, very nice textures. Infinite size levels are cool (I hate running into the invisible wall in UT2k4). I wish UTOnslaught had T2's bomber as well. Or the HAVOC. 5 Juggernaughts jumpjeting from a Havoc troop carrier amid a rain of Fusion Mortars is still a sublime pleasure for me...
Anyways,
Tribes 2 was a "must upgrade" game for me and required a pretty cutting edge machine to run well at the time it was being patched into completion ('nuff said). It "made" me go from 128MB to 256MB (critical to get rid of the worst of the swapping) and finally to 512MB RAM ( the game + system uses about 350MB I estimated). It ran poorly on a GF2MX (32MB SDR), fair on a radeonVIVO (64MB DDR), good a GF2PRO (64MB), and great on anything faster. Processor speed wasn't as critical, any +800Mhz P3/Athlon seemed to work fine.
Nowadays, a sub 2GHz AMD budget box with NForce2 integrated graphics (and 1/2Gig of 333DDR) should be enough for this game. All those P4Celeron w/ GF4MX420s should love this game. Got a laptop with radeon or nvidia graphics? Try T2.
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