Fans attempt to revive Tribes 2 with TribesNext

Posted Jan 6th 2009 11:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Patches, FPS, Multiplayer

Last November, Activision Blizzard shut down the online master servers of many of the older games they had acquired the rights to in their purchase of Vivendi Games. One of those games was Tribes 2, the sci-fi multiplayer shooter from the now defunct developer Dynamix. The game was first released back in 2001 and three years later was re-released as a free download. However the shutdown of the online master server a few months ago meant that the game was unplayable online.

Now some enterprizing fans of Tribes 2 are attempting to relaunch the game online with TribesNext. It's basically a third party patch that allows online play via a new multiplayer server. Since all of this is basically off the books it's currently unknown if Activision Blizzard has an issue with this game. Still if you have a copy of the free download you might want to check this out.

[Via Kotaku]

Tags: activision-blizzard, dynamix, tribes-2, tribesnext, viviendi-games

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Or we could like...get a new next-gen Tribes game instead.The last one was really overshadowed by UT and seeing how UT3 was rather disappointing, new Tribes could get a huge influx of new fans...Posted at 11:58AM on Jan 6th 2009 by Jakka ( The Order of Haters of Balance)

Anybody having trouble connecting to the account creation server?Posted at 12:05PM on Jan 6th 2009 by Sam

I can't see them getting upset or involved. The game is a free download now, they've abandoned it. Though, you never know. It could end up very popular and they end up wanting a piece of the action... or all of it.Posted at 6:45PM on Jan 6th 2009 by Shadowhaxor

Or maybe it will inspire Activision Blizzard to develop a sequel to T2 with the same gameplay and dynamics. Unlike Tribes 3 Vengeance, it's missing the feel of Tribes 2 and Starsiege.

Posted at 9:16PM on Jan 19th 2009 by YOUR BIOS