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February 2010
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The editors liked
Large battlefields
Huge player counts
Satisfying weapons
Awesome sound design
Good sense of reward for XP grind.
An elegant command structure
Userfriendly command system
And XP rewards for following orders provide real motivation to work together. Doing so successfully can provide a thrilling feeling of beating impossible odds.
Well-integrated command structure
Quick
Tense action
Lots of ways to make your mark on the battlefield
Large
Well-designed maps
Play on the same map with up to 255 others. Enough said.
Virtually no lag
Excellent community features
Well balanced maps
Tons of customization
The editors didn't like
Large scale brings visual drawbacks
Battles can become chaotic with poor cooperation
Only one character per PSN account.
Barebones matchmaking and gameselection make each match a crapshoot
Until more players learn the importance of teamwork
The game experience will continue to be uneven and unpredictable.
Abstract: MAG was released on January 26, 2010 exclusively on the PS3. Review based on gameplay up to level 30 across 20+ hours of game play. After a lengthy closed beta and what was essentially time-specific demo of an open beta, Zipper Interactive’s MAG has f...
Published: 2010-02-02, Author: Chris , review by: cnet.com
Abstract: When you first hear that MAG supports 256-player online matches, you may be inclined to picture hordes of soldiers swarming on top of one another and filling the air with thousands of bullets. The reality is that skirmishes play out on a much smaller s...
MAG Does a lot of things right - it's a solid shooter, and has shown that having a large number of players doesn't have to choke up the gameplay. Unfortunately, it didn't show that more players means more fun. Bugs, imbalances, and a lack of c...
Abstract: I have to admit that I was skeptical going into MAG, the latest shooter from the folks who did the SOCOM series for PlayStation 2. First of all, the SOCOM series for the PlayStation 2? That's like the RuneScape of shooters. But then there was MAG's mos...
Abstract: Those who were fans of the SOCOM series may have been surprised to see Zipper Interactive venturing into new territory with MAG: a first person massive online multiplayer shooter set in the future featuring up to 256 players online on a single map, wh...
MAG: Massive Action Game is one of those 'does what it says on the tin' titles (like Gratuitous Space Battles, for instance), so it's perhaps unsurprising that MAG actually is a massive action game. And in MAG's case, massive has never bee...
Abstract: You're opening yourself up to a potential sh*tstorm of criticism if you're going to call your new game MAG: Massive Action Game. You'd better deliver on that promise by bringing the action and by making it massive. And it had better be a game too. It h...
