Eugene, Oregon developer Dynamix, a division of Sierra, once made a very good game for Activision called MechWarrior . They had this nice little giant robot engine but were shut out of developing MechWarrior 2 . Instead, they started from scratch and gave us EarthSiege , which naturally lead to EarthSiege 2 . Jump ahead to 1998. The game takes place about 1,000 years in the Starsiege future.
Mankind is in the grips of war for territory in the vast reaches of space.
But this war isn't made for the use of massive Hercs-it's up close and personal. At its most basic, this game is more of a 3D action shooter, played either in first or third-person, and is geared almost exclusively toward multiplayer play. The single player training missions actually sound pretty cool. They're not simple deathmatch stuff, but actual missions that force you to properly utilize a squad of your own men to take over a structure or attack an area. While it's true that Tribes will ship with single-player missions, they're mostly designed to provide adequate practice for the multiplayer tactics that will be the game's main focus.