The second installment of the game slowed things down in order to try and force more teamwork among players in public servers - by making the classes reliant on each other in order to effectively mount an assault - but this wasn't exactly a success and met with protests from the old Tribes community.

So Tribes: Vengeance returns to the original style of play with, well, a vengeance (pardon the pun). It's almost a shock to think how fast the game is now. Skiing is fast and vehicles, while no longer being the screaming jets of Tribes 1 and 2, tend to be more useful and rugged. For example, the fighter aircraft isn't like a fighter plane - more like an assault helicopter. It fires slightly explosive shells from two guns while being able to hover in place, go side to side, fly forward and reverse. It's great at destroying turrets, suppressing exits and entrances from bases and especially in dealing with those pesky heavies.