MAG Trailer: Putting the FPS Genre 'on Steroids'
Case in point, the first video developer diary (below) just surfaced over on the European PlayStation.Blog, examining various elements of the forthcoming shooter MMO, such as the "shadow war" that private military contractors are fighting over ...contracts.
MAG is "basically trying to take the first-person genre and put it on steroids and take it to the next level," Zipper lead game designer Andy Beaudoin explains in the clip.
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Once I see a full 256 players on a map without horrible lag I will start thinking this game might have a chance.
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On release, it had a cap system that was easy to bypass and unfair (it wasnt even across the three empires, usually the first empire on the cont got the largest cap). Later on, they made it 166vs166vs166, then dropped it later on to 133vs133vs133 due to declining numbers of players (spread them out over more continents.
Yeah, it had lag occasionally but it held up remarkably well for the age of the tech. Its only downfall was sony being idiots and mismanaging the hardware and fees. Player numbers went down so they raised the prices...
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