E3 2009 Demo: MAG: Massive Action Game

it stops at 1 min

sure does...........

I thought the game crashed :P but it was the giantbomb player... I hope they fix it soon, it looked great and I'm very curious what happens in the rest of the video.

weird, mine seems to be working, even on the crappy internet here. I'll see if it needs to be compressed again.

No, it stops at 1-110 for me aswel

yep, video is broke

dat der dun broken

It's weird that he says he's sending in a UAV to scout out a position, and then he starts calling the action an air strike, as if those are somehow the same thing :)

The time still counts up but the image is frozen and there's no sound, for me.  Just another version of incomplete, I guess.  Weird that it worked for you, Vinny.

mine stops at 1:25 on med

Duder, its *Broken*!

GOD DAMNIT!

Works for me.

me wants

E3 is BROKEN!!!!
*gasp*

Is it me or does MAG look boring, i dont see anyone switching from Modern warfare 2/Cod4/Killzone 2 to this game. Its so generic and relys on teamwork and since many PS3 players dont use mics is there any point?

As a gamer brought up on Quake I will never be able to get into things like this. I envy those who can.

So far the only thing that sets this game apart from other online shooters is the number of players. Other than that I don't see anything about this that makes me believe it'll stand out from the crowd.

this should be awesome.

Since it's coming from the original Socom guys, I will give the game the benefit of the doubt.

The screen looks far too cluttered with icons for my liking.

So it's a large scale game of battlefield but call me skeptical because I think lag is still going to be a big issue for this game.

256 players.... wow....

This game looks great!

Do want

I prefer being able to know my enemy, gives you a better sense of competition against actual opponents.  with this, im sure it will feel as if they might as well be bots.

256 players WOW they have to have dedicated servers for this there is no other way

it looks a bit tooo complicated but cool at the same time

could be great. but it will be really challenging to find 256 players that want to work together like this.

This game is going to be HUGE.

Yea, I dont know, this isnt doing anything for me.

Ok so the numbers 2 + 5 + 6 excite me. Lets hope its got cool gameplay unlike the shitty SOCOM game.

if it does they've got a sale right here...

I always get excited by the idea of an FPS with hundreds of people at once...but reality always seems to bite my ass. Just looks too chaotic IMO.

gimmick gimmick gimmick. 256 players does not necessarily equal fun. 

did he have "god mode" activated or something?

My ALL TIME favorite shooter was Command and Conquer Renegade from years back. It was the first game that implemented an over all strategy into an fps. Running around killing each other meant nothing. Everyone would break off into a small group of 4-5 people and try and come up with a strategy to take out an enemy building. Take out the Power Plant and every thing they buy costs x2. Take out the Tiberum Factory and they don't get any more steady income, which lets you wait them out. Take out the Warfactory or Barracks and no more tanks or advanced units. I have NEVER had as much fun then I had with that game. This looks to be the closest game to re-create that experience. It's just sad that its on the PS3 and not the PC, where shooters are meant to be on and can actually be enjoyed.

This game is certainly ambitious, but it only takes one laggy connection to ruin a match, and if there are 256 potential laggers...

Looks interesting but I don't want to work that hard... just throw DOWN

I'm excited for this game, but damn this demonstration could have been better.  Seriously it was just a step by step guide of how to take an objective really; we didn't get to see some real action and how the gunplay is.

works prefectly fine me and it did when you first uploaded it. 

Duno. Part of me wants to be optimistic, but there's a voice in the back of my head that whispers "controlled demo reflecting little of what the game will actually be like". It could turn out fine but.. seems on one hand ambitious with the 256 players bit and the objectives, but on the other hand looks very "battlefield clone but on a PS3 and not made by people who make battlefield games". Also think about how solid it's going to have to be in order to retail and not have a billion issues.

My issue isn't about the tech. It's more that i'm simply bored with this "real war" bullshit. This kind of game is just not for me, no matter how many players there are. Kind of like how COD4 is undeniably a cool game, but it just has limited appeal for me. I don't think war is cool.

Also, how realistic is it to always have enough players going? If this game suffers a dwindling userbase, it's going to be way more noticable than in "smaller" games.

Regardless, cool tech

Don't know why, but this game reminds me of Section 8 ;] Also I really like the idea of gaining experience for killed enemies.