Sony PlanetSide

This is a great game for those who...

Strengths: Beautiful environments, massive multiplayer, experience/advancement system, though still some bugs the programers release a patch a week for fixes and new stuff (great jumps since I started playing)

Weakness: Don't try this one without a high-end screaming video card and a broadband internet connection. Learning curve is a little steep at first. Music is good, but little variety. Monthly Fee :(

This is a great game for those who want a little more out of a FPS than just blowing people away with the biggest gun you can find. It's still there, but it's the scale of the game that makes it great. There's nothing quite like looking at your radar and seeing thirty of your New Conglomerate buds defending a base from forty Vanu Sovereignty scumbags to the south and thirty Terran Republic losers...
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This is a great game for those who want a little more out of a FPS than just blowing people away with the biggest gun you can find. It's still there, but it's the scale of the game that makes it great. There's nothing quite like looking at your radar and seeing thirty of your New Conglomerate buds defending a base from forty Vanu Sovereignty scumbags to the south and thirty Terran Republic losers to the north (Disclaimer: Vanu and Terrans are really great teams to play...you can give me more targets to shoot at ;) Anytime I see "Online with up to 15 of your friends" on other games, I just laugh.

There is really only one objective: capture the bases. There are different kinds of bases that give the team holding them different bonuses, but it really just boils down to one team trying to fight their way into the facility while the other team defends it. That sounds like it could get boring, but Planetside offers many different ways for you to try to accomplish your goal. There are plenty of standard infantry options, from cloaking armor to the heavy exo-suit, from handguns to rocket launchers. But the most fun for me is the huge number of vehicles. You can drive small assault buggies, light tanks, troop transports, and powerful tanks. There is also a great airforce, from the radar-invisible fast Scout to the huge troop transporting Galaxy dropship. Each team has its unique style of technology for added strategy and fun.

Probably not for everyone, but great fun for me.

By Jaeothyn - Dec 18, 2003

PlanetSide

PlanetSide receives an overall TopTenREVIEWS rating of 3.31 out of 4.00. It is ranked the #1,207 game of all time, #38 game of 2003 for the PC and #318 PC game of all time. The rating and ranking is based on an average of 70 critic scores, awards and other criteria. To see a breakdown of the game ranking, read individual critic reviews, or see how other games ranked, click on the link below.
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By TopTenREVIEWS.com - Mar 17, 2008

PlanetSide

A few weeks ago, we presented our first impressions of PlanetSide, an online world promising unlimited action with a never-ending war underground, on the ground, and in the skies above. As the first combatants got their first kills, the virtual world of Auraxis was off to a good start, with only a few small patches and some minor lag issues. But now the servers are packed with people, bridges and...
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By GameSpy - Jun 20, 2003

Planetside

Your Galaxy pilot just forced you to hot drop on an enemy base. As you are falling from your Gal, you notice there are dozens of teammates already doing battle. Reavers are flying overhead giving air support as other Galaxies are landing and dropping off vehicles and men. Explosions are all around you and you seem to be taking fire from all sides. The enemy appears to be falling back as you pull...
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By GameZone - Jun 6, 2003

PlanetSide

When Sony Online first announced their first attempt at creating a massively multiplayer first person shooter game, it's fair to say that I was psyched. Not only did the initial screens look brilliant, but the ideas driving the creation of the game were solid and hinted at the bright future for online experiences. Years later, after many changes both to the gameplay and graphics, PlanetSide was...
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By IGN.com - Jun 6, 2003