This game is absolutely massive and it's been designed not to be like your normal first person shooter where you may only have 30 odd players in a level. In this game you have thousands of players all simultaneously fighting across one of the largest maps you have ever seen. And then to top it off there are three different maps representing three warring factions effectively and the idea is it's a turf war really.
The three factions are fighting over these massive worlds and looking to take items of territory in this case right now we're trying to assault one of the towers which happen to have vehicle pads and aircraft pads as well as being able to spawn infantry. And at the moment we ‘recurrently trying to assault it. Now you can see here there's loads of people on screen, there's an enemy tank up there which I'm about to launch some missiles at. If I can get a lock on. No? But the idea is to simulate a war in the far flung future. So all of the weaponry.
We're probably here with the Fractional of the weaponry has a very futuristic kind of feel to it whilst the TR are very much projectile based so everything is bullets basically, and missiles. One of the other factions has lasers for instance and you can see there an aircraft flying overhead. And as I'm looking around here you can see there are so many players and this is only a small fraction of the number that you could have on-screen at any one time. But there's my repeater rocket, Whoa! It got me. So quickly rescanned,
Ripsaw times last 10 seconds or so then you can get straight back into the action dropping an ammo pack, currently running as an engineer here. So I can also drop these manna turrets as well, which are absolutely phenomenal for just holding down an infantry assault coming towards you but does tend to make you a bit of a target for tanks and anything with a missile. But you can see I'm able to lay down just a little bit of cover and given my guys an opportunity just before I get killed and then I'm moving on again so now the assaulters just move round, we're actually attacking from three points around this building and so switch over to the infantry, the infiltrator now and just try and deal with some of the infantry currently hold-up on the top of the tower.
Main reason we are doing that is we can't really assault the tower until we can get their covering fire reduced a little bit and then our guys could push forward. The whole way the game works and it's been in a very long development cycle through an alpha and now think in beta, so not even officially released yet although anyone can now jump in and play. They have done an awful lot of work here to rebalance up and polish the game and they're making changes and additions constantly to how the game actually works. Really fantastically well made. The general scale of the game is just something that is breathtaking the first few times you jump in and there will be real moments, I've been playing now I think for about eight or nine months, and there are real moments in this game where you kind of just end up dumbstruck I think, really is the word.
I mean you can see here how many players we have just in this one small little area and we're basically pinned down at the moment and here is the enemy starting to swarm towards us. It really is a game that at times will just leave you breathless, especially when you know; a high explosive round goes off behind you. But just phenomenally well made game.
In a second we'll be switching over to some of the vehicles so you can have a look and see how those operate. And here we go, moving now to my tank. All the vehicles just feel meaty in this game. None of them are particularly weak and you can upgrade everything, that's one of the key things with this game.
Everything is available as an unlock or if you want to hand over money because it is a free to play game, you can unlock weaponry earlier but you still have the progression there. It's not pay to win so effectively if you’re willing to put the time in you can unlock any gun in the game. The area where the kind of micro transactions and in-app purchases come in is really for customizations do you want to make your tank look cooler.
But everything is well balanced. At no point in this game does it ever feel like you’re going to get absolutely trashed by one person using one particular type of load out. Everything seems to have a counter because there's just such a wide variety going on here so if somebody is sat there with a rocket launcher fly up to them with a mosquito. You know, bomb them from the air. Whatever it takes basically. Everything has a counter if you're willing to use your brain. It just makes for a very fun experience the likes of which we've not really had in a first person shooter before. Like I say, this kind of game transcends personal shooters and kind of ends up more of this massive multiplayer war game.
It’s something just a little bit more than just Call of Duty of just Battlefield. Realistically, this is where Call of Duty and Battlefield will have to go to over the next few years otherwise they're going to look decidedly out of date. Sony have done a phenomenal job with PlanetSide2created possibly the best first person shooter that's ever been made, certainly the most dynamic war game that's ever been created and to have it in these huge open worlds with all of the unlocked vehicles and gear available plus the way that they're actually working with the community of gamers to improve their game makes this a title that is a no-brainer, you have to check it out. The system requirements are a little bit high if you want to be able to play on full detail at 60 frames a second like we're seeing here then you're going to have to, you know, have fairly beefy PC. But all in all it's well worth it this was played on a GTX 58. ( official source )
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