MAG

[Armalite_]

Sony's MAG (Massive Action Game) is coming out sometime in the late summer of this year. With 256 players divided into 8 squads on 1 map, the chaos will definitely be something to look forward to.

PS3 Exclusive trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RadpFEwtTSE

[Somebody]

Chaos is about right, honestly I don't really see it working. I've played online games since their conception and if its one thing I've learned that getting 16 players on one team to teamwork in a logical way is next to impossible. (Unless its a clan) Throw in 128 players and you pretty much got the worlds largest collection of rambo wannabes. Problem is most gamers tend to think your kill score means your the best player, often ignoring all objectives all together. If you've ever played Battlefield 2 (A real battlefield not this console crud) then you know kill count is all that matters, not teamwork.

I could be wrong but I highly doubt it.

[Armalite_]

Chaos is about right, honestly I don't really see it working. I've played online games since their conception and if its one thing I've learned that getting 16 players on one team to teamwork in a logical way is next to impossible. (Unless its a clan) Throw in 128 players and you pretty much got the worlds largest collection of rambo wannabes. Problem is most gamers tend to think your kill score means your the best player, often ignoring all objectives all together. If you've ever played Battlefield 2 (A real battlefield not this console crud) then you know kill count is all that matters, not teamwork.

I could be wrong but I highly doubt it.

You raise an excellent point. It's hard enough with only 6 ppl per team

[Octavia]

I can't see it working out either....


...I wonder how the Lag will be with that many people playing in one lobby

[Armalite_]

I'm sure the guys at Sony will find some way around it.

[Somebody]

256 players on a single server is hardly undoable as MMOs have been doing thousands of players on a server for years. Its not to say they couldn't do a similar thing with mag.

[Blackout]

This game looks wholly unremarkable and has yet to astound me. The 256 players thing is a huge negative in my book.

It's like someone took Battlefield 2142 ad said "Let's put ten times as many people there!". Reeaaal original.

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

256 players on a single server is hardly undoable as MMOs have been doing thousands of players on a server for years. Its not to say they couldn't do a similar thing with mag.

The reason 256 players is impressive is because real time combat with so many players is incredibly hard to do. MMOs do not have real time combat (Well, not properly atleast, until APB comes out and blows everyone out of the water, but even then it only supports 100 people per server... or was it 100 for one side, 100 for the other...)
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Anyway, 256 is impressive, it's just that, there's some basic but not major structure to it. Gameplay demonstrations didnt really convey the idea that you would be able to actually SEE the spectacle going on, because everyone is just having their own little bouts.

It does seem very much like BF2 times 5, which isnt necessarily a bad thing (BF2 is an awesome game.) Player count doesnt matter as long as the game is solid...

sadly this isnt looking as solid as BF2. My guess is that it will be about Quake Wars level, which isnt bad at all.