Designer: Eric Lanz, David Meddish, Jesse Russell.

Alden, Kelly Asay, Clark Fagot, John Folliard, Bradley Heinz, Lincoln Hutton, Greg Lancaster, David Moore, Brian Ramage, Mitch Shaw Playing styles can vary greatly for each player and from one instant to the next. There's plenty of jet pack-powered flying that adds vertical aspects to fighting, as well as a skiing action to slide down slopes.

There's also weapon and equipment loadouts that can be changed at any moment throughout the game.įrom straight battle to stealth, the enormous variety of equipment and deployable objects allows players a wide range of creative play and approaches. Each player can also select among three armor kinds: weak but quick, strong but slow, or middle. Many of these devices may be left unattended to run on their own, or players can take control. Players can choose their own role and deploy a wide range of weapons, vehicles, and emplacements. The player can navigate around the battlefield on foot, with a jet pack, or as a pilot, co-pilot, or passenger in numerous ground and flying vehicles.Įach match is played according to one of many game types, each of which has its own set of rules for Capture the Flag, Deathmatch, Rabbit, Arena, Hunters, Siege, Gauntlet, and Bounty. Tribes 2's engine is based on an early version of the Torque Game Engine, which was used to create large maps for indoor and outdoor envoriments. Each match takes place on a map inspired by the Earthsiege series.

With options to use either first-person or third-person perspectives, there's also a short single-player tutorial mode that teaches player the controls and rules to the games. Tribes 2 is a team based multiplayer game that can be played on the Internet or over a local network with up to 128 people (64 against 64) or bots. While none of the factions differ in terms of strengths or weaknesses, each have their own appearances and backstory. Players can also opt to play as the BioDerms, a rebellious human-created soldier/worker species. Set in the Earthsiege universe in the year 3941, players take the roles of soldiers in one of many factions (referred to as tribes in the game): The Children of the Phoenix, the Blood Eagle, the Diamond Sword, and the Starwolf.