Hey dudes
Way way back, before counter strike I played a sweet little game called Tribes 2. It is without a doubt one of the best games ever.
Anyway, Vivendi just shut down the master authentication servers and released the game for free so now everybody can have an account and play!
Just go here and grab the game plus the patch and you're in business.
http://www.tribesnext.com/downloads
At the moment the master server list is not working so you need to put in a server's ip directly, ask me and I can pull up a big list of IPs.
So you've never played and why should you?
Well, all maps are CTF style but most of them are really big.
You pick from light, medium and heavy armor and you get a loadout of guns plus a backpack which gives you special abilities (a lot like dystopia).
The big thing that makes this different from a lot of games is that you get a jetpack which you can use to fly around and "ski" which basically lets you slide up and down hillsides to gain speed.
Also each team's base is powered by generators which you can blow up to sabotage them. The generators power turrets, lights and most importantly loadout stations which you can use to heal and change equipment. All of these things can also be blown up.
I'll probably be playing this a lot because it is one of my all time favorites and I havnt played it in years.