Starsiege: Tribes (1998)
Genres:Strategy, Shooter
Themes:Action, Science fiction
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:Starsiege: Tribes is a squad and class-based multiplayer first-person shooter that emphasizes teamwork across vast, open terrain in space. It established several team-based mechanics that are seen in almost every team-oriented first-person shooter today.
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This was the gateway game that got me into online multiplayer.
Team based aspect was unique back then (98/99). Other games had team based multiplayer, but it was mostly deathmatch. Tribes was/is different in it's multiplayer goals. Which i enjoyed a lot.
One of the best pc gaming experiences I ever had growing up! I remember fortifying a tower to defend it from other players, and launching all kinds of futuristic explosive weaponry.
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