What the game actually is: The Tribes series is a first person shooter where the main mechanic is "skiing". Players can ski by removing friction from their soldier at will. Skiing allows one to attain incredible speeds (and heights when airborne), and has an incredibly high skill ceiling. This skill ceiling is amplified by the fact that all non-hitscan weapons (the majority of weapons in the series) inherit momentum from their soldier's velocity, and thus modifies their shots accordingly. The result? An *incredibly* high skill, fast paced, first person shooter that became one of my favourite games to play back in my university days. Alas, if only the game was still supported.

Why am I giving an abandoned game a thumbs up? Purely because the servers are still running, so one can either host their own matches to play with friends, or hope to join a server on the rare occasion that there are some running that aren't password blocked by other hosts. If you can manage to get a match together (with enough players), this game truly shines as one of the greatest games in history. Otherwise, if you don't have a group to play with, steer away from both this game and Hi-Rez Studios games in general.

Additional Notes: I have hundreds of hours on this game prior to it being linked to Steam. The 5.9 hours (at the time of writing this) on Steam are purely the hours I have played post linking my account to Steam - which served no purpose, so I never bothered to.