Tribes 3 Announced Thread

According to this .IGN Article Tribes 3 is in the works.

December 12, 2002 - We got an early Christmas present this morning from a reader frequenting the TribalWar.com forums. It seems that a little hinkfo has finally slipped out of Sierra's clammy hands by way of a post from Tribes 2 Brand Manager Alex Rodberg. See if you can't see what the important part of this post is...

When we make another Tribes game
(I'm still thinking of a good name)
Skiing will require skill -
No speed cap, and skiing uphill.
The graphics rock - worlds come alive -
But won't require a GeForce 5.
Lance, bomber, tank, I doubt they'll go
But they'll be better this time though.
We learned our lesson about forums -
They're the domain of those who whore 'em.
An open beta early on
Will help make sure the bugs are gone
So it's a given that we'll have one
And only launch when it is done.
Can't trust a weasel not to lie
But cross my fingers, hope to die
No more a question - may or might
The next Tribes game got a green light.

Oh yeah kiddies, the next Tribes is on the way! Of course, just to make sure, we dialed up Sierra for direct confirmation and a happy quote, which was given to us by PR Manager Adam Kahn, "I can confirm that we are working on another Tribes game." Gee thanks Adam, have anything more to tell us? "I can confirm that we've been greenlighted for full production." No, no, I mean about the actual game... "We'll have an official announcement next year." Right... so we don't get the details at this point, but we can certainly hope that we'll be seeing something about the game soon.

Thankfully for us, Alex has a bit of a runny mouth and had some more to say on the TribalWar.com forums such as...

I don't think any game can ever be T1 again. Even if we were to recreate T1 in painstaking detail, it wouldn't be as popular as before. Most of you are already past the learning curve, and what made it addictive was moving up that curve.

Looking forward, we must rely on our (and your) ability to discern what was fun and what wasn't about all the Tribes games (and even other games) and end up with a finished product that is both new and familiar at the same time.

I'm confident in the team we have assembled for this daunting task. I can't wait to introduce you to them so we can get fans involved in the process as early as possible. When? When we make the official announcement, sometime next year.

Our intent is to capture that spirit and feeling, but we're not out to recreate it. Whatever comes next it will be new and different, but respectful to its heritage.

...and this little bitty responding to another post that hints at the possibility of a high end development team...

This team is from the highest bracket.
If there's a problem they will track it.
If its not good
It's understood
You'll punch their face and steal their jacket.

Granted, that doesn't really solve the problem of Tal excitedly gibbering in the corner right now, but at least it's something. We know it's on the way and we can just hope that whatever developer is handling the product is up to the task of satisfying the Tribes community.

We are, of course, in the middle of selling Fran for more info on the game. You can hope to hear more next year

/me gibbers excitedly in the corner

Nice. Maybe I'll look up screenshots of the first two Tribes games.

PsychoFarmer wrote: *me gibbers excitedly in the corner

W3rd:wub:

Eugh, another sucky game, w00t

Practically i am not so surprised i love Tribes i used to play it alot (like 24hours a week) and i still love it but as the release of Tribes 2 came i was really dissapointed in what the team had accomplished it is still good but not as good as a expected it to be...

Hope this one is way better that the 2nd because the 1st Tribes game was the best and the most popular....

Peace...!
Tribes Universe Rooolez

The only mods that are mine that suck are SEB and 2 of my Tribes1 mods...

leilei

Blucid wrote: Practically i am not so surprised i love Tribes i used to play it alot (like 24hours a week) and i still love it but as the release of Tribes 2 came i was really dissapointed in what the team had accomplished it is still good but not as good as a expected it to be...

Hope this one is way better that the 2nd because the 1st Tribes game was the best and the most popular....

Peace...!
Tribes Universe Rooolez

I played tribes 1 on my 56k dial up which cost per minute back in the day, i wrang up about 500 bucks worth of phonebill in 2 weeks.

tribes 1 was good, tribes 2 sucked, and tribes 3 will redeem the franchise

I love you too pf

azz0r wrote: Eugh, another sucky game, w00t

i agree

CS still rules

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- Edited By azz0r On Thu 19th, Dec 2002 @ 8:25:36pm

and he yells at us for spamming...

i never liked tribes, its sooo... how should i say... CRAPPY!!!

when will u ppl appreciate TRUE gaming :\

when a real game comes out

Greg wrote: when will u ppl appreciate TRUE gaming :

Lets have babys and then bring them up to Love tribes.

People these days don't have any skillz because they all have or use hacks for example in CS there r so many hacks that r not detected and stuff, i think thats why CS is so popular because everyone can be so good with out breaking a sweat now there r hacks coming out for so many games it is so pathetic. Tribes Never had hacks and never will have any and it is all skill, and no shit program doing the aiming for you....

CS Sucks major ballz, and so does every other Half-life mod on the planet...!

Blucid wrote:

CS Sucks major ballz, and so does every other Half-life mod on the planet...!

I love you :wub:

Blucid wrote: People these days don't have any skillz because they all have or use hacks for example in CS there r so many hacks that r not detected and stuff, i think thats why CS is so popular because everyone can be so good with out breaking a sweat now there r hacks coming out for so many games it is so pathetic. Tribes Never had hacks and never will have any and it is all skill, and no shit program doing the aiming for you....

CS Sucks major ballz, and so does every other Half-life mod on the planet...!

well i have to agree with the CS part, but not with the rest. There are numerous half-life mods that blow tribes out of the water! Namely Natural-Selection! Well really all hl mods beat out tribes...

esp tribes 2...

Mr.Magnetichead wrote:

Greg wrote: when will u ppl appreciate TRUE gaming :

Lets have babys and then bring them up to Love tribes.

Poor child will be tortured, bless it.

Seriously Tribes blows, give me one good thing about it.

erm...community?

"Tribes blows"? You've obviously never played the first Shifter. Ahh, those were the days...

Obviously not