Tribes: Ascend
Tribes: Ascend is the fourth major installation into this series of multiplayer FPS, centred around speed and pure teamwork, with the primary game mode of capture the flag.
Tribes: Ascend is an adventure developed by Hi-Rez Studios, released 12 April 2012 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Tribes: Ascend is
Tribes: Ascend is an adventure game developed by Hi-Rez Studios and released in 2012. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Tribes: Ascend is a free-to-play first-person shooter developed and published by Hi-Rez Studios for Microsoft Windows, as part of the Tribes series. Aspects from previous Tribes games such as jetpacks and skiing are featured in the game.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, open world and science fiction. Available modes: Co-operative and Multiplayer.
How it was received
Tribes: Ascend holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 19 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz, 2GB (XP), 3GB (Vista, Win7) of RAM and ATI or Nvidia graphics card with 512MB video ram or better and Shader Model 3.0+ support. (ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher).. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 10GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Tribes: Ascend launched on 12 April 2012, within three weeks of The Walking Dead: Season 1, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, The Walking Dead and Fire Emblem Awakening. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Walking Dead: Season 1, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, The Walking Dead, Fire Emblem Awakening.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Tribes: Ascend yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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