Starsiege: Tribes (Windows)

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Description

Starsiege: Tribes is a first-person shooter set in the Metaltech universe which pits different warring tribes against each other. This first-person 3D action shooter is designed to focus on cooperative multiplayer gaming. Use single-player training missions to develop the skills required to become veteran warriors, then join multiplayer combat between 2 to 32 players connected over the Internet or LAN on a wide variety of battlefields, fulfilling different objectives, using wide variety of weapons, armor, and equipment.

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Alternate Titles

• "星际围攻：部落" -- Simplified Chinese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Gameplay feature: Jetpack
• Gameplay feature: Recordable replays
• Metaltech / Tribes universe
• Tribes series

User Reviews

Redefines multi-player gaming.	JL3001 (20)
Entertainment quality is top notch.	Everett Lamb (10)	unrated

Critic Reviews

PC Joker	Feb, 1999	3 out of 3	100
IGN	Jan 15, 1999	9.3 out of 10	93
Abandonia Reloaded	May 06, 2005	4.6 out of 5	92
Gaming Entertainment Monthly	May 05, 1999	90 out of 100	90
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Jan 16, 1999		90
GameSpot	Jan 22, 1999	8.6 out of 10	86
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Apr, 1999		80
Computer Games Magazine	Jan 05, 1999		80
Player One	May, 1999	75 out of 100	75
Gamesmania.de	1998	70 out of 100	70

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Trivia

Demo

The demo to the game included 3 levels and quickly hosted an extremely large community, it was active the entire lifespan of the full game, even long after Tribes 2 came out, thousands of fans logged on to the original demo and fought it out in organized clan matches. Rarely has a demo supported so many dedicated fans for such a long period of time.

Free release

On June 3rd, 2004, Sierra released Starsiege Tribes for free to celebrate the upcoming release of Tribes: Vengeance. It was later re-released in 2015 by current rights owners Hi-Rez Studios, albeit as the Tribes Action Pack release (which bundles both Tribes and Starsiege into one), alongside freeware releases of the other Tribes games and the two EarthSiege games.

Server shutdown

The servers went down on 14th December 2005.

Awards

• PC Gamer
  • April 2000 - #27 in the "All-Time Top 50 Games Poll" (tied with Thief: The Dark Project)

Information also contributed by Abi79, Birjer Rosenkrantz, and Sciere

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Related Web Sites

• Planet Tribes (Large site with everything relating to the Tribes series.)
• Starsiege TRIBES - Tribes Players (the official web site of the game, Wayback Machine snapshot from 2000)

Kasey Chang (4617) added Starsiege: Tribes (Windows) on Nov 21, 2000