IGN just posted the first gameplay teaser video for Tribes: Ascend! Hi-Rez Studios is bringing the Tribes franchise back to life with this free-to-play multiplayer shooter, which is scheduled to launch in fall 2011. It will pave the way for Hi-Rez's Tribes Universe, a persistent world MMOFPS that can handle large-scale combat.

While the game will be free-to-play, IGN explains that players will be buying loadouts, which determine characteristics like armor, movement and weapons. Hi-Rez plans to make new loadouts available regularly, much like champions in League of Legends.

Get you first look at Tribes: Ascend's gameplay below! So Tribes fans, what do you think? Does it look like Hi-Rez will do justice to the franchise?