Zipper Interactive are good people. Not because their PS3 exclusive Massive Action Game is any good (I don't know if it is or isn't yet), but because they chose a great slow news day to post the box art for the aforementioned game. Desperate bloggers such as myself are now forever in Zipper's debt.
So here it is, the official box art for MAG. To help pad out the article even more, Zipper has also shared some interesting statistics from the game's beta phase. If you're into this huge first-person-shooter, check out the data:
More than 42,000 matches were played over the course of the full public beta (August 17 – December 5).
During October’s beta period alone nearly 534,000+ miles were traveled in-game by MAG players each week.
During the final month of the Beta 4 and 4.5 periods (November 9 – December 5):
Of the more than 65,000 players that logged on, 17,000 of them qualified for Squad Leader, 3500 people qualified for Platoon Leader, 1100 folks made it all the way to OIC, and 206 dedicated warriors made it all the way to the level 60 experience cap.
Nearly 18 million kills were made and an excess of 700,000 million shots were fired.
The Top 3 most played maps all belonged to the Sabotage mode. They were, in order, Syr Darya Uplink, Darien Network, and Copper Hills Relay.
Those are lot of numbers and things! I've heard mixed reactions concerning the MAG beta (I had a key and could not be bothered to spend ten thousand years downloading it) but despite the concerns I've seen, I still remain quite hopeful that it will be a cool shooter. Ever since Killzone 2 basically fell apart, I've been looking for a good PS3 shooter to get into. We'll have to wait and find out if MAG is that shooter.
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2:20 PM on 12.10.2009
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Sad face.
Basically.
I'd put this as a contender for one of the worst actually. Who the hell thought that gun in the bottom was a good idea? It almost looks Photoshopped in at the very, very, last second.
wtf, noobs. Lrn 2 headshot, OK?
So what's happened to it? I guess it didn't hold up to well then?
It actually became more powerful then you could possibly imagine. I played it once on release day, and then again about a week ago. It has gone from a normal shooter to absolute insanity; people just jumping around, teamkilling, getting all "Lord of the Flies" up in the game.
It's actually kinda totally awesome, in a sick sad way. Unless you actually wanted to play Killzone, in which case...well, you are SOL.
Thanks heavens it wasn't just me that thought that it felt like Combat Arms.
That said, I got to level 54 or so.. wish I had time to get to 60, would've been cool to be one of just 200 players to do so D: as is, the stats are fun to know
I LOVED LOVED LOVED the MAG beta, cannot wait for the full game, stuck with MW2 now. *sadface*
To me it felt VERY counter strike, but on a massive scale, I couldn't get enough.
Number of times I was told to log in during "regular beta hours": 2
Number of times I deleted the MAG beta: 1
You'll be happy to know of my two reasons (one of them being Heavy Rain) my other reason to get a PS3 is to play MAG with the infamous Sexualchocolate. :P
Awesome boxart!... though mostly cause I play Raven and that's a Raven guy on the top! :)
MAG will definitely be my Warhawk replacement and I expect to be playing most nights! (and getting back up to OIC level!)
I'm looking forward to playing some MAG with you, my PSN id's in my profile. It's looking to be a superb game. I actually miss the beta, and, it's sad I know, but I still have it installed and check it occasionally. (servers still turned off) Heavy Rain is going to be sweeeeeeeet too.
See you in the Shadow War.
@Elsa, you're a MAG player, will you be joining Xzyliac and I? Who do you fight for?
Must say I'm a SVER man myself.
Nevermind, I'll enjoy shooting you! ; )
Valor!
@Xzyliac's first post: LOL
Sure it's not the prettiest of shooters, but I think we're past talk of grafiks grafiks grafiks, to me gameplay>graphics.
Sure it's got the often called "cluttered" HUD but the shot detection lines are a major part of the gameplay.
I found it so mixed, I mean you can hide and snipe, you can rush with an MG, sneak with a silenced Assault rifle, you can command from the sidelines, or from the frontlines, there are moments of quiet, awaiting enemy forces, there are moments of madness and hectic, stressful panic, there is teamwork, or one-man-army badassness, there's vehicles which are not only a big gun but a tactical insertion point, it's got a persistant war between the three awesomely individual factions, an RPG style progression system, you can end up defending a position waiting for the rest of your team to get there, you can end up on a healing cycle with a badly positioned sniper, you can use gas to force enemies to go a certain direction, you can ignore your main orders and set the frago you think is best overall (bunkers FTW), etc etc etc.
Sure sometimes you get a dick squad leader, but you can vote him out easy enough, sometimes you get overrun by your enemies, but that's war, you sometimes get enemies sneaking round you to the main objective, again, that's war people. Man up.
I fucking LOVED it.
My favourite round involved 5 players, including myself the team leader, defending one spot, while our AA gun kept getting taken out, every time it got taken out, I'd set the AA as a frago, the 5 of us would head over to it (a way away) the 4 guys would take it back while i headed to the Vehicle depot to get an APC to take us back to the main objective.
We did that perhaps 4 times, but each time was like a mini mission within our main objective of protecting the main frago. it was an amazing bit of team play, with snipers covering the engineers ass while he fixed the AA and assault troops healing and defending the whole while, and me collecting the APC for the trip back to the main frago.
I mean that shit just doesn't happen in MW2, or many other shooters. But I suppose all some people want is the prettiest shineyest shooter they can get their hands on.
Shame.
its too fuckin overcrowded
a boxart must be simple, elegant and get the point across
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-Chris