Here is what you need to know: Tribes 3—demo currently available as part of the ongoing Steam Next Fest—lets you ski backwards at 150 miles per hour while firing a chain gun at pursuers. On that basis alone you should probably go give it a try. All the best, most basic zones of your mammalian brain will light up like starshine.
But if you need more information than that, here it is: Tribes 3 is the latest revival of the twice dearly departed Tribes series, team-based FPSes that let you deactivate friction on your feet at the touch of a button, turning every match into an incredibly fun mess of momentum-building spacemen zipping around big, hilly maps and annihilating each other with rocket launchers. It's also called Tribes 3 despite there being three other Tribes games in between it and Tribes 2. Are we going to explain that? No.
