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Old 08-03-2008, 08:08 PM   #59 (permalink)
Xyrael
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Default Re: Games Radar Preview Huxley!

Did any of you ever actually play a MMOFPS before, I just hear people ranting about BF2. Who cares about BF2. Try Planetside, 400 people on a world, that's MMO. BF2 sucked in comparison. If anyone ever played Planetside you'd know the power of the zerg, the infamous Tower of Power battles where the entire planet of 400 people battled over a single tower, or the outfits of 12 man that attempted to capture the generator of a base while holding off 200+ enemies. There was lag, if you had a suck computer or connection, but for the most part battles were awe inspiring and smooth, you felt so diminutive and unimportant and yet you always felt like you had stuff to do. Reinforce the defenses, bust through the back door, shoot the grenade launcher down the tunnel at the right angle and pray you don't get blasted by the twenty defenders inside, suit up in heavy armor and tank your way through that tunnel like a unstoppable meat shield while everyone else followed you.

100+ players isn't as much chaotic blast fest as much as it is mob mentality. You feel helpless on your own, so you stick with everyone else. Some people prefer being a medic, others liked being snipers, most preferred standard infantrymen. But it was the outfits that ruled the battlefields.

I really hope they include the 100 v 100 battlefields, possibly even more with NPC soldiers on your team in a massive PvP quest, just for the feel of being in a real war. I'm not the kind of person who'd ever play a 4 v 4, I hated Unreal Tournament and Halo and all that. 20 v 20 would be tolerable, but 100 v 100 let's people not in clans perform roles just as good as a clanner. Anything less than that takes away from solo gameplay, and although this games not geared for it you know there's a lot of loners out there.

Coming from the experience of Planetside, not some sissy small fry game like BF2, is what's disenchanting me about the smaller games. But who knows, they didn't get to review something about the actual game, just the demo they got. Heck, maybe they didn't even explore the whole place to find the 100 v 100 (or Webzen didn't want to show it to them because they couldn't fill out the battlefield with 200 real people and show them the experience, which could have caused a bad review)
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