so, you are looking around the web, to figure out if you should buy this game. well maybe you should know some stuff first. like, this game is an FPSMMORPG (yea, long title huh?). once you buy the game, and install it. you will have to "update" it. which can take up to 3 hours. now hold on, don't leave! after it "updates" you will go to a main menu, and pick a server. which, is split up into three time zones (EST, PST, and EURO). then you have to pick a faction. there are a total of three factions in the game. 1st you have the Vanu (no not the car....), who likes to put the color purple on EVERYTHING they own. the Vanu like using super Tech (even if it is not that good...), lasers, energy weapons, shields, ect... they want to take over the world through cool looking tech *cough* attack of the Geeks *cough*. 2nd you have the Terran Republic, who likes to put the color red on everything they own (starting to see a pattern here?). the TR (nickname for Terran Republic) like to show that they are "badass" by having super-rapid-fire weapons, chain-guns, gattling-guns, rapid-fire pistols, ect... they want to take over the world using there rapid-fire weapons, and there "coolness" *cough* Rambo wanna-bes *cough*. last you have the New Con (hmm...), they use the color blue on there stuff. and they like the "power weapons", shotguns, missiles, magno-rifles, ect... lets just say if you like to "nuke" the crap out of an enemy, you might just like this faction. they are simple people, who take up arms to kick the living daylights out of anything that comes near them.
all of this, + countless weapons, tanks, jets, water-tanks, mechs, and even hover-craft are in this game. there is also a command part of the game, where you can lead from Squads, to whole armys. though, most of the players who can lead whole armys, are dumb 12-years olds who would not know a tactic if it bit them in the butt!
so, in short, if you feel like spending hours and hours blowing away people online, without all that "you must save the king!" crap in RPGs, GET THIS GAME!!
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