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Smirking_Saint

Smirking_Saint

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256 players online at one time, apparantly will keep the frame rate ok and will be smooth.

 

Also, each teams have a commander and platoon leaders, will this be good or just far too complicated ??

 

St Marco

St Marco

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Has the potential to be amazing or has the potential to be really ****.

 

If they follow what EA did with the Battlefield series (especially number 2) and what Infinity Ward did with Call of Duty 4 then it could be the best online shooter ever made.

 

But if the go the Socom or Warhawk route then it will be just another shooter.

BlakeySFC

BlakeySFC

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Has potential but personally don't think it'll amount to much to be perfectly honest, think the name is stupid aswell (MAG) Massive Action Game...yeh that's gonna get me interested in buying it isn't it....hmmm

Block 5

Block 5

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Lol, clan at 128 a side.

 

I was up for the COD 4 clan but a/ no-one is ever online and B/ no one seems to wanna join me

 

:(

 

COD 4 is gash compared to Warhawk.

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Danny

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A friend of mine got an advance copy and has been hammering away at it. When I see him I'll report back on his impressions of it.

St Marco

St Marco

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I was in the beta

 

Was not impressed at all. Seemed very last gen, graphics were not great, the reactions i.e shoot registery seemed way out. The lag seemed pretty bad at times. obviously a beta is supposed to be like that.

 

IGN have their review up

http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/106/1063592p1.html

 

Personally i think i will be giving this one a miss, already have a lot of average shooters to get through.

Danny

Danny

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My mate who has been reviewing it is actually quite impressed. Says it's a steep learning curve but has had no problems with lag or anything.

 

He's speaking of it quite highly.

St Marco

St Marco

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Played it last night at mates house, total garbage.

 

It is a weird game, 256 players but only really playing against 64 at a time. The tactical side of it seems non existent. The whole wait until the re-spawn timer is about to run out then press bleed out means next to no wait time in re-spawning. Which is great if you want to just keep playing. But makes the objectives a bit pointless if you have no spawn time ala CS,BF,DOD etc..

The orders system is stupid as nobody follows them. The leaders seem most of the time to not have a clue what they are doing. The graphics have not changed at all since the beta and are really really ****. The grass,trees,scenary might as well have been last gen.

And the worst thing of all...Everyone is snipers.

 

So having played counterstrike since the start, the battlefield series and of course call of duties this game is terrible in comparison to them.

It just seems like a poor version of Battlefield 2.

 

If you want a tactical shooter then play Red Orchestra.

 

I am glad some of you are liking it though.

Deanovski

Deanovski

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lots of people follow orders on this due to when your squad leader sets orders if you follow them you get extra EXP, and we all know people are greedy.

I have played battlefield, cod etc.. and i find this more fun than all of them.

St Marco

St Marco

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I am glad you like it mate. I can see it being one of those games that when the idiots have got bored and left the people remaining will be a decent community who want to play it in the right way.

 

But i think the poor reviews it has got (around 70% on metacritic) are justified. This is the 21st century and while numbers are good they do not mean anything if used in the wrong way. This in my view is what MAG does. Talks about numbers and makes you think i either need xyz amount of numbers for xyz, etc. Which is very much a sort of RPG formula. In shooters it has been done before and to some degree has been good i.e Battlefield.

If you find MAG more fun then that then that is good. But me personally i don't think it comes anywhere close to it or any of the games it is trying to compete against.

Zipper Interactive have basically just done Socom but bigger and worse.

Block 5

Block 5

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I've been playing for a couple of days and I really like it.

I'm more of a Warhawk fan than a COD fan, and I feel Marco's point about people dropping out to leave a core of fanatics is a valid one.

That is what happened with Warhawk and it is one of the many reasons why it is the best online game ever.

I feel MAG will go the same way.

 

It is still early days and I feel very few people have got to grips with the giving/acting upon orders element of the game.

I have been playing with some Americans who seem to have a better idea of how to play.

 

This game has real potential. And that potential lies in teamwork. Intelligent players who organise themselves and communicate effectively will succeed; lone wolves, who pay no heed to their other team mates will soon lose interest and gravitate back to COD.

 

I do like the fact that you are rewarded for being a team player......for example, medics earn extra XP for helping wounded teammates.

 

Marco, I agree that the graphics are not of the same calibre as COD, but as a first generation arcade gamer I know that graphics are of little importance.

 

I'm also impressed by the lack of lag and the crystal clear comms.

 

There are rather a lot of snipers but that is normal. Warhawk was the same.

It took me quite a while to gain enough confidence to venture out of the missile turrets and sniper spots and fully appreciate the close combat.

 

MAG........ damn....... it's hard!

Deanovski

Deanovski

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I do enjoy cod but like only as an arcade shooter this feels like a real WAR game!

i think this will be one of my favourite shooters of all time up there with rb6 vegas.

Deanovski

Deanovski

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i sent you friend request and all that basically when i send you a clan invite go to clan and it will come up have regular players who play till about 9 pm altho im on later we are pretty good too.

Saint_clark

Saint_clark

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Sorry about that period where I just sat in the bushes guys, had my missus on the phone :lol:

And that sabotage near the end was one of the quickest battles i've ever seen - was about 4 minutes 20 seconds I think, thanks to me securing B and C ;)

Saint_clark

Saint_clark

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The one with the ship? I kept getting stuck in a glitch near the helipad :lol:

Most of it passed me by as I always had to respawn right back near the beginning and run for ages before I could even shoot at anyone.

Block 5

Block 5

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Already joined Valor ;)

 

In which case I shall look forward to killing you!

 

(Probably not.... the only thing I've truly mastered so far is dying - I can do it in a myriad of different ways with a rather unnerving frequency).

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