MAG
MAG, previously titled MAG: Massive Action Game, is a MMO shooter for the PlayStation 3 and was developed by Zipper Interactive.
The game was announced at Sony’s E3 2008 press conference.
Various subtitles were being considered for the game, including MAG: Shadow War, MAG: Zero, MAG: Global Assault and MAG: Final Hour.
The game was released in North America on January 26, 2010, Europe on January 27 and the the United Kingdom on January 29.
It is scheduled for release in Australia and New Zealand on February 11 2010.
Gameplay
The game utilizes a new server architecture to support online battles with up to 256 players, with users divided into 8-player squads, with 4 squads forming a platoon, and 4 platoons forming a company.
Each squad is led by a player who has advanced through the game’s ranking system.
Character statistics and development also increase with frequent gameplay.
The players most advanced in rank are able to either direct the battle or participate directly in combat
Story
The game begins in 2025. As time passes, maintaining a full scale military becomes a burden.
In a globalized world, the only security threat is from small scale rogue organizations against whom large forces are useless, and the fuel needed to supply increasingly mechanized armies becomes more costly.
As a result, most nations’ armies decrease to the size necessary to defend against a “national emergency.”
