PS3's 256-player MAG is a failure ...

So after playing MAG for some time now. I can say that even games like Resistance 2, and MW2 are better online shooters.

What's so bad about MAG? Nothing in particular. Just about everything is generic FPS fare. For one, I found the controls to be very sensitive, and difficult to keep in line, even after messing with the controls. It does not have the responsiveness of say, COD, or Halo, or even Killzone... which is hard to imagine.

The classes are... boring. Sure plenty of weapons, and gadgets and upgrades keep the game fresh. Not really a negative, but not very exciting.

It is perplexing to me, that while you shoot at an enemy, you can't see what you're shooting at, unless you use a zoom weapon. The recoil, and the muzzle flash makes hitting an enemy more of guess where he was when you aimed, and pray he doesn't move because you'll keep shooting thinking he is there. This problem affect weapons with iron sights, and alike. It's just weird.

The 256 player matches do not feel like 256 player matches at all, because of squads. the game never feels big scale. The maps are big, there are tons of players, but there is just something missing. And the gametypes are not very exciting. The whole game has that Counter Strike Source feel to it... except like it was made by Midway, and not Valve.

The graphics? Well, they are not that bad as some make it out to be. But they are definelty something that the PS3 would produce when it was launched. Not the best.

The full price admission for a MP only game is hard for me to swallow. Maybe if was $29-$39, fine, but in this day and age even great MP-focused games like COD who prefer the MP have at least a fun, if not short SP experience. To me, MP only games are a big no. Hence why Unreal 3 wasn't popular on consoles.

Is it a decent shooter? Yes.

Does it have potential? Maybe.

Is it better than Bad Company 2 Beta which I'm playing now? No.

COD: MW2? Not even close.

My final prediction is 7.0 on GameSpot.

Can't say I agree cuz I haven't played it... but yeah, I think MAG is lame.

I have to agree, but I'll have to say it gets a 6.5 here because I almost never see 7s for some reason.

Domination matchs are the only one that feel like 256. Cause when everybodys at the final location, its a slaughter house

I played the beta and its okay but not what I hoped for. Bad Company 2 is way better.

I played the beta a lot as well and thought it was fun but i do agree that its not like MW2 and if anyone want me to chose between Mw2 and MAG i would go with Mw2 but MAG is still fun in its own way.. i'd give it a 8.5 .. i will get the game but not day 1

Yeah I agree, it's just an average FPS with 256 players.

Zipper should've made Socom 4 instead of this crap.

i can't say i am surprised. nothing about the game is appealing

I agree with just about everything you've said.

Still 256 players is a very impressive number. Im curious about Dust514 since it will support the same number of players and crossplatform gameplay between 360 and PS3 :)

eh..killzone 2 sucked,and im a pretty huge coww... looks like this will follow the same steps as KZ2,shame.Another thing,socom confronts community is so small,Zipper was once great,now,not so much as they were with P-ES-TOORatchet_Fan8

You claim to be a cow yet don't know that Zipper didn't make Socom: Confrontation. That was Slant Six. You are one weird cow. :?

eh..killzone 2 sucked,and im a pretty huge coww... looks like this will follow the same steps as KZ2,shame.Another thing,socom confronts community is so small,Zipper was once great,now,not so much as they were with P-ES-TOORatchet_Fan8

Killzone 2 was actually awesome. If MAG follows Killzone 2 steps then that is a good thing because Killzone 2 suceeded. But I still think MAG sucks.

[QUOTE="Ratchet_Fan8"]eh..killzone 2 sucked,and im a pretty huge coww... looks like this will follow the same steps as KZ2,shame.Another thing,socom confronts community is so small,Zipper was once great,now,not so much as they were with P-ES-TOOOneLazyAsian

You claim to be a cow yet don't know that Zipper didn't make Socom: Confrontation. That was Slant Six. You are one weird cow. :?

you mean like this?

:P

telling from the majority of the responses here, i might be in the minority here, but i found MAG to be quite enjoyable. Now it's no MW2 and BFBC2 is a better game, but i didn't get the "generic" feel from it at all. Now i must be honest and say that when i 1st played the game, i was unimpressed, but after a numerous times of playing and getting familiar with the game, i grew quite fond of it. What's even funnier is that most of the people i play with all love the game and will be getting it on day 1. Now i'm not stating that their opinions are better than yall's, but i'm just stating how different opinions can be. I'll be getting MAG on release day for sure:D

I played the beta and its okay but not what I hoped for. Bad Company 2 is way better.

RadecSupreme

telling from the majority of the responses here, i might be in the minority here, but i found MAG to be quite enjoyable. Now it's no MW2 and BFBC2 is a better game, but i didn't get the "generic" feel from it at all. Now i must be honest and say that when i 1st played the game, i was unimpressed, but after a numerous times of playing and getting familiar with the game, i grew quite fond of it. What's even funnier is that most of the people i play with all love the game and will be getting it on day 1. Now i'm not stating that their opinions are better than yall's, but i'm just stating how different opinions can be. I'll be getting MAG on release day for sure:D

ermacness

A lot of the "haters" haven't even played it so...

As for MAG I enjoyed the beta a lot but it does have some flaws but the updates really ironed out the major kinks with it. Its pretty hard to compare it with other shooters because its really feels and plays different. I'm not sure if I'll get it at this point but it has a solid foundation and will be a good game.

We'll see come January but I'll probably pre-order it to continue playing the beta and see how its shaping up before release.

its unfortunate to hear these problems well ill still cross my fingers for a better finished product :) bad company beta ftw :D

MAG is TERRIBLE, yes, but the controlls are very smoth to me. They had a great idea, but they couldnt pull it of. I agree that everything is generic, boring and lame. Everything about MAG is terrible, especially the animations. I knew the graphics were ps2 like, but the animations are just so stiff. In the end MAG will be the PS3's biggest FLOP and all the sheeps and lemmings will have a field day when the reviews start coming in. I give it a 6.5/10RTUUMM

Thats the exactly what i expected since the game was proposed. Sounds like it should be good, but just doesn't fit together well. The gameplay would have to be executed perfectly and i never got the impression that it would be.

Thats the exactly what i expected since the game was proposed. Sounds like it should be good, but just doesn't fit together well. The gameplay would have to be executed perfectly and i never got the impression that it would be.

mck92

[QUOTE="RTUUMM"]MAG is TERRIBLE, yes, but the controlls are very smoth to me. They had a great idea, but they couldnt pull it of. I agree that everything is generic, boring and lame. Everything about MAG is terrible, especially the animations. I knew the graphics were ps2 like, but the animations are just so stiff. In the end MAG will be the PS3's biggest FLOP and all the sheeps and lemmings will have a field day when the reviews start coming in. I give it a 6.5/10InfiniteBlak

I played the beta and its okay but not what I hoped for. Bad Company 2 is way better.

RadecSupreme

I agree, Bad Company 2 kicks ass.

[QUOTE="InfiniteBlak"][QUOTE="RTUUMM"]MAG is TERRIBLE, yes, but the controlls are very smoth to me. They had a great idea, but they couldnt pull it of. I agree that everything is generic, boring and lame. Everything about MAG is terrible, especially the animations. I knew the graphics were ps2 like, but the animations are just so stiff. In the end MAG will be the PS3's biggest FLOP and all the sheeps and lemmings will have a field day when the reviews start coming in. I give it a 6.5/10RTUUMM

MAG is fun, but its not only a beta, but a beta where I tend to see upgrades happen with each new update. The final product will be much more polished, also when you are hitting someone the game lets you know, just like in Call of Duty.

I agree this game (from the little I played of the beta at a friends) seems a bit lame.

If you are saying resistance 2 has a better MP then mag is beyond fail, it's ultra fail or something.

in some ways i wish i was in the beta for mag just to see how it turned out, i didn't bother because i played a few of the "huge number of guys" (for lack of a better term) shooters back in the day when the pc fad was in full swing and never liked so much as a single one of them

btw if you have not tried the bfbc2 beta yet quit messing about here and find a code and go play it that thing is a blast

darn, I was hoping MAG was going to be good. I've been intrigued by 256 vs 256 since that game was announced. was one of those, "make me want a PS3" game, had the concept been executed right. I guess squads would have been unavoidable. could you imagine 256 players, all talking at once in a game.hammerofcrom

Um, its 128 vs 128, for talking its not an issue. People can only talk to their squadmates (except for leaders, who have contact with other leaders), while only one person at a time can actually say anything that will be heard.

I strongly disagree with almost everything you said. I love MAG, and I felt intrigued the first time I played it. To me, if felt like a game that actually took a little skill to get good at, where as MW2 feels just like the last, which would be fine, but the didn't fix any of the problems. BFBC2....played thebeta(and since we're basing everything off of betas) and it sucks! Slow and goofy movement, gameplay feels lethargic, personally I would rather play BF1943.

To fair though, I really don't like games like BF because of vehicles. I prefer the smaller, more intimate battles...which oddly enough I can get out of MAG, since yourarely venture in the other part of the map. In closing, by the time MAG comes out I'm sure I with be extremely bored with MW2 and will pickit up day one.

I strongly disagree with almost everything you said. I love MAG, and I felt intrigued the first time I played it. To me, if felt like a game that actually took a little skill to get good at, where as MW2 feels just like the last, which would be fine, but the didn't fix any of the problems. BFBC2....played thebeta(and since we're basing everything off of betas) and it sucks! Slow and goofy movement, gameplay feels lethargic, personally I would rather play BF1943.

To fair though, I really don't like games like BF because of vehicles. I prefer the smaller, more intimate battles...which oddly enough I can get out of MAG, since yourarely venture in the other part of the map. In closing, by the time MAG comes out I'm sure I with be extremely bored with MW2 and will pickit up day one.

dimebag667

agreed, i havent play MAG yet, but BFBC2 is boring...it's just exactly like BF2 on PC...nothing particular new.

I actually stopped reading after the first line. Why would you compare a new game...not even a new game but a new concept of game on consoles (256 player) to a proven franchise like Resistance or Call of Duty. CRUSHER88

I have been shaking my head since they announced 256 players. Seriously? That is your selling point? Size does not make a game fun to play and there are many examples of this. Take Gears for instance. 5 vs. 5 and it is absolutely fantastic...at least when you don't get in an extremely laggy room. I have tried playing, and sheer size does not make it better than the Halo's and Call of Duty's out currently. The Bad Company 2 beta is much more fun.