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Open public beta starts tonight..... want to try it out, but at the same time, I want to watch the Fiesta Bowl.

I am going to give it a shot probably after tomorrow's Orange Bowl game, but if anyone has tried it out, how is it?

For those who don't know, M.A.G. is a PS3 online game which will have a first for a gaming system- 256 players at once. It's a shooter made by the makers of the original SOCOM games on the PS2 (Zipper, which is NOT the same company who made the PS3 version).

It sounds like it could be an absolute blast, and is slated to be released later this month.

You can download the beta in the PS store online.

Anyone plan on getting the game this month?

Will be on in a few minutes after I get my daughter to sleep.

Lemme know how it is. I gotta work early, but am on afternoons Wed. So I'll have time after the Orange Bowl tomorrow.

Hey FA, saw you were on it last night. How was it?

DP17, what's your PSN name?

Wow......I really like it.

First it is a FPS not TPS that zipper is know for.

Now I don't have MW2 but this game is COD4 on steroids. Comparing the Beta to MW2 Pictures MW2 has better graphics but the gameplay rocks.

When you start out you have only one game mode you can play. Sabotoge. The other game modes will unlock as you gain experience.

Sabotoge:

32 vs 32.

You are broken down into an 8 man squad. There are 4 squads on each team. At the start of the game the team on "Offense" has two objectives to take over. The game will tell you which point your squad is attacking, should be two squads to each objective. Each point has a trigger where a person on your team has to hold circle and wait for a loading bar to fill. Once complete you have that objective. Once both Objective A and Objective B are in your teams control Objective C is unlocked. Now your entire team (all four squads) needs to again take controll of a point and deploy a bomb (hold circle, loading bar) on a place and then hold it until the bomb goes off. If you blow up objective C your team wins.

On "Defense" it's quiet simple. Hold down and don't let them take over both Objective A and B if they do take over a point you can take it back (in the same place they hold cirlce you need to and then wait on the loading bar). If they do take both over you need to stop them from blowing up Objective C.

The game timer is 20 or 30 min I can't remember. If the game ends and Objective C is not blown up the "Defensive" team wins.

Like Football is a copycat league the game industry is a copycat industry. The button layout is identicle to COD. There is experience points and you gain levels. You get skill points so you can unlock new guns and attachements for the guns.

There is a weight system so you can't carry too much stuff. This is done with points. So you have 3400 points and each item has a point cost. Gun = 700, extra armor = 1000 ect...

The game level that is 128 vs 128 looked like the last level to unlock. IDK what level you need to be to be in that game mode. Level 10 unlocks a couple game modes (according to my brother). I reached level 5 after playing two hours last night.

That's all I can remember. But I definetly give this game .

Nice, sounds like a massive version of Battlefield:bad company gold rush game mode. have to arm charges on two crates as attackers, have them blow up, then you get reinforcements and can try to blow up the crates on the next base (3 or 5 bases per map.) Defenders can disarm the charges on the crates if they get there and clean out the attackers fast enough.

You have me on there, it's Dawgpound.

Ha, shoulda warned me that the update took forever to download. Guess I won't be playing tonight after all. Only 18% done after about 20 minutes or so.

Oh, sorry I did that a week and a half ago. The Beta hit the PS Store I think on the 23rd. I d/led it and then logged on and had the update. Then I was disapointed when I waited for the update to finish and I was greeted by a message that said the servers won't be live till Jan 4th.

Would have been nice to play it then. I had to use up vacation time and was off from the 23rd till the 4th.

I hope you got to play a little. I'm curious to see what someone else thinks of the game.

IMO, I think putting the Beta on the store was genius. If I had to pre-order the game to get a code for the beta, I doubt I would have. Based on Socom 3 and Combined assult and even though Slant Six made Confrontations Zipper had a lot of hands on input with them on it I was really hesitant on M.A.G. After playing the Beta both me and my brother (both of us are long time players of Socom 1 & 2 and 3) will be buying this day 1.

No, it was 1am and still had a little bit left to download. I went to bed and left it on all night....

I get home from work at 11, so I plan on playing sometime after that. I'll let you know what I think. I was a HUGE Socom 2/3 fan as well.

I don't see where you get that MAG plays anything like a Call of Duty game. If anything, its a Socom on steroids.

Socom = Third person shooter. M.A.G. = First person shooter. This game is nothing like any Socom game I've ever played and I've played them all.

It has the same basic elements as COD4 on a larger scale.

You can decide for yourself. Everyone has their opinion. Mine is it plays more like COD.

This does sound like a cool game, almost makes me wish I had a playstation.

I'm interested to hear how smooth it runs? A few months ago Game Informer did a cover story on it and the devs said they were struggling with getting the frame rate above 30 per second during online play.

I didn't have any lag issues or any kind of slow down.

I thought the game was fun, wasn't quite like SOCOM, but I never really played COD.

Since I hadn't played COD and been quite a while since playing SOCOM, I struggled a bit getting used to it. I'm definitely going to buy it. I can see this game being a blast, like SOCOM back on PS2. Large scale, people everywhere, and that was only 30 v 30.

Maybe I struggled because you have to unlock stuff, and I was running around with just basic equipment while getting picked off by snipers and guys using silencers. But the game, though a Bera, ran well and looks to be a lot of fun.

The biggest complaint I've heard is graphics. 1) I don't care about having the greatest graphics if the gameplay is fun. 2) The graphics are pretty good and the first message you get when you load the game is: "This is a Beta version of an unfinished game. The graphics, gameplay and audio does not represent the final product.:

No, the graphics aren't high end, but what Zipper is about is the gameplay and experience.

SOCOM was never known for their graphics, it was about the online experience. SOCOM 2 is still my all time favorite game to this day.

The graphics aren't bad. If you're looking for Killzone graphics, you may be disappointed. I can see a ton of potential in the fun and online experience in it.

I think it'd be funner if you just had 256 people divided into two teams and go at it. Instead of dividing into 8v8 and all that. Not exactly the 256 they bragged about..

LOL nice