Fallen Empire: Legions open beta begins in one week

by Christopher Grant { Jun 17th 2008 at 9:57PM }

Just like a cartoon character barreling its way through a brick wall, body contorted in a character-shaped chalk outline pose – there's a peculiarly Tribes-shaped hole in our collective heart left when the classic team-based shooter was passed over by a newer, fancier generation of team-based shooters. But while those games have filled all sorts of other random holes in our heart (the thing was a perforated mess!), we find ourselves still Tribes-less.

Our best hope for a full recovery comes a week from today, when Fallen Empire: Legions – a spiritual successor of sorts from the original Tribes developers, formerly of Dynamic and now at GarageGames – begins its open beta at InstantAction.com. If you want to get a quick taste of the browser-based FPS, check out our video from GDC embedded after the break or hit up the galleries below.

Gallery: Fallen Empire: Legions

Tags: Fallen-Empire-Legions, GarageGames, InstantAction

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Thief @ Jun 17th 2008 10:25PM

Whenever I hear "Fallen Empire".. I think of Magic: The Gathering.

and also how much a failure the Fallen Empire set was...

finnith @ Jun 17th 2008 10:47PM

At least you guys played Tribes, by the time I started actively playing video games, it no longer existed.

What was it like?

Titanium_Orchid @ Jun 17th 2008 11:35PM

BEST GAME EVER!!

Not really the best game ever but it was really awesome. Nothing like it really existed at the time. Nothing like it really exists now. I hope Fallen Empire can live up to my memories.

goldenglow21 @ Jun 18th 2008 1:54AM

Dynamix not Dynamic.

blitzkrieg999 @ Jun 18th 2008 2:14PM

Unless something changes with Open beta, the game currently lacks a huge amount of content. :(

vocoder @ Jun 18th 2008 5:09PM

I've been in the beta for awhile. At this point, its not really fun. Sure you can jet and ski...and you have two flags...but thats it. I know only like 3 people work on the game, but only 3 people work on Battlefield Heroes and that game is much much much much much futher along than Legions. I feel that they really used the Tribes community to promote this POS. Sure, it might be fun....in 2 years.

Airswoop @ Jun 18th 2008 7:38PM

Actually, you can play right now. There is an open room up now for anyone to join. As a heads up, there does not appear to be a way to invert mouse look.

t_m @ Jun 19th 2008 6:55AM

Its kinda like tribes... be that good or bad. They've even included a lot of the exploits from tribes.

So, its incredibly fast paced, but if you're not a tribes veteran then some of it can be kinda confusing... like the fact everyone suicides the whole time to get back to base.