Tribes: Aerial Assault

I've never played any of the Tribes games before, so this is coming from an unspoiled (or un-enriched as you may see fit) mind.

Tribes: Aerial Assault for the PS2 is awesome. Seriously, this is some really good fun to be had. I picked it up last night mostly on a whim, and was most pleasantly surprised with the game I received.

(Got Sly Cooper as well, and it turned out to be a plethora of new gaming goodness :))

Fast action. Great effects. Cool weaponry. Did I mention that it's online compatible? I haven't tried it out online yet (that's for later today, for I am sleepy as hell), but if it plays as well online, then it surely kicks SOCOM's ass right outta' my PS2.

Anyhow, I just wanted to make this thread to get a few responses and generate some buzz for this title. I hadn't even heard it was coming out until I saw it at EB last night...

Game fuckin' ON!

Ok, first order of business: BUMP!

Have all of you nothing to say about this game?

Anyhow, I played it online earlier with my cable modem connection.
The only thing wrong with the online experience is the SLEIGHT (I want to emphasize that) lag when you fire your weapon. It's about a quarter of a second, but that could mean a lot or a little to you... Personally, I kind of like the lag. It makes you think a little harder about where your enemy is going to move. OH! I should mention that I was playing in a game with like 20 people. Instructions say there's only supposed to be 16, but it's bullshit. I saw a game running with 32 freggin' people in it.

Here's the really great part (All of this is based on capture the flag):

It's pure bedlam on the battlefield; I'm talking, like a war is really going on around you, unbridled anger, buddies dying all around you, battlefield. The levels are fucking monsterous. Seriously. If you didn't have your jet-pack or a vehicle, it might very well take you 5 minutes to walk from your base to the enemy's.

If you have a network adapter I STRONGLY recommend you check this beast out. I haven't even tried to work my way through the single player experience yet, as I just don't care...

Screw SOCOM's 'tactics', and give me the first scene of 'Saving Private Ryan's intensity ANYDAY!

SOMEONE discuss this with me! I'm dying to know if anyone else is gonna' get this.

And on that note: my character name is: icarusfall (It's a lot easier than my current TNL incarnation :))

You can't communicate with your team. Thats lame.

I understand it's a screwed up take on the PC classic, but if it bears the Tribes name, I expect it to take some sort of teamwork and planning.

Seriously, if you're pissing your pants over this, go play the PC version. You'll crap your pants....and thats...uhhh...better D=

I don't play PC games, so there's no chance of that happening.

I'm not really going to bother arguing, as I already know there's no point in doing so with you...

You take care now :)

And you wondered why I proclaimed Halo as lame and a Tribes ripoff...

(though I have changed my position on Halo to fantastic in multiplayer, my position still stands)

K, picked it up, played it offline, awesome. Have yet to play it online though. Shall see.

Sorry, I'm a PC FPS gamer. Although the exclusion of communication seems pretty stupid in an online game, especially one based around teamwork. I'm still waiting for the Tribes 2 rerelease, in any case. Shame there's no PC/console connectivity ala DC Q3, that'd be kind of nice to have in more games.

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And you wondered why I proclaimed Halo as lame and a Tribes ripoff...

(though I have changed my position on Halo to fantastic in multiplayer, my position still stands)

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Have you seen Breed yet? It's shaping up to what Halo was supposed to be, and looking damn fine.