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MAG Beta Gameplay Footage

Leaked gameplay video from the upcoming PS3 Exclusive MAG.

DixieNormS5361d ago

this game is going to be bad ass. I woulnd want to play against the sniper on the video. He looks too damn good. lol

gamesR4fun5361d ago

they did an exceptional job with the draw distance n lag seems almos non existent...

too bad this vid will prob b pulled soon.

umair_s515361d ago

Horrible quality video, I'll wait for some direct feed

Hellsvacancy5361d ago (Edited 5361d ago )

Add me if u want (Hellsvacancy) its pretty cool

My only problem so far which i get wid most games is that i cant read the writtin on screen, i havnt got a Hdtv (50odd inch flat/widescreen) so the words appears 2 b a bit fuzzy

Its alot of fun (i cant figure out how 2 in2 a vehicle yet-DOH)

randomwiz5361d ago

someone just broke their terms of service... I think they should've chosen me, i wouldn't have leaked stuff like this guy

StanLee5361d ago

The UI still looks like a clusterf*&k but the game looks and plays great.

Guido5361d ago

This game is going to be sick. PS3 owners are in for some real treats.

ThanatosDMC5361d ago (Edited 5361d ago )

I'm still trying to download the update... it's taking me forever!

Oh yeah, i forgot... "But teh dualshock 3 teh suckz for FPS games!!"

JaPo5361d ago

I'm hyped for this mofo but I don't get any sense AT ALL of the '256 player' scale which was promised.

It just seems like another (admittedly awesome) COD4 compatriot.

Anyone feel what I mean?

evrfighter5361d ago

no bullet drop or bullet travel time...

come on now. Even bf2 had bullet drop =\ If your gonna clone something then at least do it right. I was considering a new ps3 for this game but I'm disappointed. I'll wait for some more gameplay videos before I make a decision.

stevenhiggster5361d ago (Edited 5361d ago )

Bullet drop? Are you nuts, the bullet drop in BF:BC is a joke, most modern sniper rifles can fire well over a mile before the bullet even drops an inch, somehow I don't think the guy who was gettin sniped in the video was over a mile away.
Don't let stupid things like that stop you playing what will surely be an awesome game.

BulletToothtony5361d ago

the controller are GREAT!! and i mean great.. no lag and the maps are HUGE, little hard to learn but yeah..

Framerate is great and the sound is AMAZING

i've already put about 8 hours into the game and still finding a lot of new things..

The weapon upgrade system is awesome and the mission that we're allowed to play is great..

overall i give this game a solid 9.2 and it should be a solid 9.8 by the time it ships..

A LOT of people are gonna play this game for many many months.. it's VERY addicting..

locos855361d ago

I hope years not just months.

Ju5361d ago

Downloaded it yesterday, didn't have a chance to play yet. I hate those snipers, though. Guess I have to give it some time today...

FamilyGuy5361d ago (Edited 5361d ago )

Three people on my friends list are in the Beta, I'm so friggin jealous. Even though the video is poor quality it still looks more fun than i thought it looked before, he was actually able to separate himself (his area of vision) from the flock other other people playing.

Before this video I wasn't pleased because of all the user names over the peoples heads that were in sight, the screen looked cluttered, and they were always all over the place/tons of people visible on your screen. But, now that i see that you can actually do you own thing it's looking a lot better.

And screw the TOS I would've made a video and uploaded it too.

LazyDevs5361d ago

PS3 fanboys are going to diagree, but i am going to say it anyways. Is this a add-on pack for COD4?

SuperStrokey11235361d ago

Im sorry i cant tell a thing from that video. Im the biggest MAG fan i know but seriously we need a direct feed before we can say anything. PLus get rid of that lame as music.

Tarasque5361d ago

Sniper rifles can not be shot accuratley at mile. Even if you use a tri-pod it still can not be accurate at a mile. And most of your powerful sniper rifles that shoot that far have to be on tri-pods. So for standing half mile tops for acurate sniper shots.

Defectiv3_Detectiv35361d ago

uh, newsflash people - just because you play a lot of COD doesn't make you a weapons expert.

Unless you're in some form of Armed Forces I think we'll all have to take those opinions w/ a grain of salt.

What's next, are people going to start critisizing the needlers in Halo as not being realistic enough?

Max Power5361d ago

I disagree completely with what you said, actually I'd take it as a complement.

MiloGarret5361d ago (Edited 5361d ago )

complement to what?

stevenhiggster5360d ago

I wasn't really disputing accuracy, even the best rifles in the world could miss from 3 yards if used by a muppet. I was just saying that there would be no bullet drop at that sort of range. If you were standing, crouching, prone or using a tri-pod there still would not be any bullet drop at that sort of range.
And anyway the point I was trying to make was not to let silly things like that put you off playing the game!

Scotracer5360d ago

LOLWUT?

Are you deluded or just stupid? Bullet drop is defined by time in the air. It is a constant over almost all bullets as gravity is a constant. A bullet takes roughly 3 seconds to cover a mile. At that rate it will drop 44 METRES.

stevenhiggster5360d ago (Edited 5360d ago )

Chill out little man, I'm not here for a science lesson, I used a little thing called exaggeration. My point remains the same, at the range he was firing from there would be no noticable bullet drop, watch the video again, it cant be more than a few hundred feet.
I was making the point that his argument against playing the game was stupid.

And I worked it out using a formula the military snipers use and apparently, all things being equal, it would fall 184.27 inches or 4.6 meters, which is quite a bit less than your 44meters. You have to remember that while gravity is a constant drag isn't, due to the shape of the bullet(sniper rifle bullets 7.62mm are a lot different in shape and size to 9mm handgun bullets).

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Upbeat5356d ago

is this coming to xbox 360 ?

oh wait silly me, the xbox would rrod and melt the paint of my wall.

sugard05361d ago

Wow, the parachuting makes for interesting and tactical gameplay as you can land on buildings etc, this game looks brilliant.

mmmmmmmmmmm cant wait until its in the palm of my hands.

OmarJA5361d ago (Edited 5361d ago )

Needs a little work but damn this game does looks awesome...

Even the graphics looks insane considering the huge scale this game has.

talltony5361d ago

a deep online fps with squads and squad leaders and what not. I am really excited for this game. Cant wait.!

Ninji5361d ago

I have enough shooters already. If I wanted anymore shooters then I would've bought the shooterbox360.

nycredude5361d ago

Ninji

Then why bother wasting your time and checking the vid out in the first place? Did you think Mag was a platformer?

Saaking5361d ago

Because he's obviously interested. The only good FPS the bots have is Halo 3 while PS3 gets Resistance 2, Killzone 2, and MAG.

-MD-5361d ago

Ninji is a hardcore PS3 fanboy Saaking so I'm not even sure why you're bringing up the 360.

likedamaster5361d ago

"Resistance 2, Killzone 2"

Yeah, real heavy hitters those games./s

CWMR5361d ago

-Killzone 2 is good, but Resistance 2 wasn't anything special at all. Mag? Who knows. It looks ok so far.-

NegativeCreep4275361d ago (Edited 5361d ago )

Ninji is what you would call a "closet partial fanboy" who clicks on a story of a game that they apparently made up their minds on not liking the game, yet still click and comment on articles of such a game only to get attention.

Murderdolls and likedamaster are like some pathetic Xbot troll tag-team now coming on and trying to help each other convince themselves MAG will not deliver.

But on the topic of the game itself, it certainly looks good. Parachuting on top of a roof in order to acquire a premier sniping point looks pretty badass. With such large-scale wars, I'm hoping that the weapon and infantry vehicle selections will be quite varied.

Chubear5361d ago

KZ2 and R2 are two high quality games that have sold millions. It's not the PS3 fanbase's fault that the 360 only has ONE high end exclusive FPS while the PS3 has 3.

Cry all you want but you can keep Halo while I take MAG, Killzone and Resistance.

Douwantit5361d ago

Actually i think the opposite, Killzone 2 sucked but RES 2 was very good. And i will have MW2 and i do not need another average exclusive.

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MAG was one of the most ambitious shooters ever and deserves a PS5 sequel

Zipper Interactive were once one of Sony's most important studios and became a household name due to their work on the SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs series during the PlayStation 2's heyday. Their most ambitious title was MAG. Could it make a comeback?

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yellowgerbil1548d ago

Best game ever. I had put over 1700hrs into that game before it deteriorated too far with cheaters getting out of the map and sadly decided it was time to let it die (Zipper had already been closed down by that time).

_SilverHawk_1548d ago

Amazing game. Hopefully sony makes a sequel

XisThatKid1547d ago

This is the game in modern gaming that even got me into shooters i spent literally days with this game Raven All the way. War against the the mighty D ride oh so edgy S.V.E.R.

NecrumOddBoy1548d ago

Original Battle Royale. No microtransactions. Definitely ahead of time.

XBox4eva691547d ago

It's almost as far from battle royale as you can get. o_O

frostypants1547d ago

It didn't have a BR mode.

Da12RespectA1547d ago

That wasn't a battle royale game at all.

rdgneoz31547d ago

3 teams of 32 fighting it out would be considered Battle Royaleish. If you're gonna saying teams are OK when you start doing teams of 2 or 3 or 4, then 32v32v32 should work. And on besides that, it had 128 v 128 which was insanely fun.

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Muzikguy1548d ago (Edited 1548d ago )

I personally hadn't played much of it. I did spend a lot of time in PlanetSide 2 though (somewhat like MAG). Games like these tend to get overrun by cheaters and then ruined too often.

Teflon021548d ago

MAG didn't have that issue as far as I remember. I use to love the 256 matches. That game had an amazing community. Everyone actually communicated and played together. No one B****ed at the team. Everyone understood there was so much going on that if things are going wrong. Everyone had to think of new strategies.
Fav moment was when all 3 other squads 32 took their objectives but we were struggling with ours and had one more to blow up. The other leaders were communicating asking if the 2 nearest squads should send ppl. Our leader was like Naw I got a idea. So he told us all to die and set ourselves at the nearest hills prone without being seen. So we all did and surrounded the areas.
He said everyone on his count throw your grenades. Then snipers go all out and everyone else run in. They won't be able to get everyone and if needed the snipers go in about 10 seconds after.

Everyone did that and I got to the objective and set it off. 9 of us survived and got it. felt amazing to say I got the objective, cover me in that moment. Wish it was PS4 so I could have saved that moment
It was literally the coolest moment I had in a online shooter, closest since was BF4.

Muzikguy1547d ago

@Teflon

That does indeed sound like an awesome moment. One that makes games like these memorable for sure. It does seem like MAG had a lot more cooperation than most any online shooter

Teflon021547d ago

It did because you absolutely can't get no where in it without teamwork. It also didn't have an extremely big base of players. Everyone who played really wanted to play. I really hope they bring it back and do the same thing to only have serious players get into the big matches again

UltraNova1548d ago

Wow, what a run! This game looks better than PUBG!

Muzikguy1547d ago

Watching that video you wouldn't think the game was on PS3.

Spenok1548d ago

I adored this game too. Some of my best FPS online memories on it. So freaking good.

I'd love to see another game like this come out at some point. And NOT like Planetside... M.A.G. was something special.

yellowgerbil1548d ago

Yeah problem is if it existed now adays, it would likely be riddled with xp boosts and dance moves and all that other pay garbage...
MAG and Warhawk are the only 2 online games I ever got into, and both need a PROPER sequel on PS5.
Remember the first time I got 100 kills in a match, was in a turret with a repair kit and just mowed down wave after wave on Valors map.

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PrinceOfAnger1548d ago

I had so much fun with this game

TGGJustin1548d ago

This is a game that was ahead of its time. Had it came out on PS4 it would've done much better. I put hundreds of hours into this despite the problems it had on PS3.

UnholyLight1547d ago

Really interesting as an Xbox owner at the time. This game had captured my interest as a kid but I never got a chance to play it. Being on PS4 and soon possibly PS5, I would love to see this franchise brought back to life. I imagine with the power of next gen it would be really quite fun.

From what I hear and what I remember, this game was FAR ahead of it's time. A real shame it never truly took off from my understanding.

grifter0241547d ago

I'm an xbox boy since mech warrior but got a ps3 slim for mag. If you liked halo or cod you'd have had a blast in mag. Was one of the first games you could actually do something other than shooting and still make a difference in game.

spicelicka1547d ago

PS4 needs something like it. In the multiplayer space it's far behind the Xbox, there are no quality multiplayer games on it that aren't on other consoles.

Dirtnapstor1548d ago

Yes, yes, and yes. Way ahead of it's time. Would love to see a PS5 variant of this game.

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Modern Warfare Ground War mode has MAG vibes

Erina Rose, Sausage Roll writes, "Call of Duty: Modern War introduced a new, improved, Ground War game mode this weekend that reminds us of the old PlayStation 3 classic, MAG."

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ilikestuff1672d ago (Edited 1672d ago )

I never played mag, I did play this beta however, and if mag was like this beta then (fart noises) for mag.

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TheGamez1001672d ago

Man do I miss mag and zipper.

TheSinsibleOne1672d ago

Seriously though. Nowadays this and next gen are practically begging for a new MAG.

zodiac9091672d ago

How did we go from having games like resistance 1, 2, warhawk with 30 vs 30 player battles, and M.A.G. with 128 vs 128 players, ON LAST GEN to now having 20 vs 20...such a step back.

JEECE1672d ago

Because Sony hadn't figured out how to market their exclusives yet. Plus at that time COD craze was at its peak. So "generic high school bro #7," who was the primary purchaser of FPSs at that time (or at least represented a crowd necessary to sustain a playerbase), if he even had a PS3, would have just seen a game like MAG as a "copycat of Black Ops, man."

Not to mention MAG was pretty terribly uninviting for new people after awhile, because it was more skill-based. This was great for veterans, but if you weren't willing to put in the time getting destroyed for awhile, you would never appreciate the game. The Battlefield: Bad Company and BF:3 games out during that gen were far more accessible to lower level players.

Vegamyster1672d ago

Battlefield 4 was at the start of the generation and had 64 players, to me it depends more on how the map/gameplay is utilized, i enjoyed the 20vs20 modes more in the MW Beta than the 64 player ground war mode.

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moomoo3191672d ago

It feels absolutely nothing like MAG lol. Way more battlefield vibes

xX-oldboy-Xx1672d ago

And even those are very small vibes, it still feels like COD at the end of the day.

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MAG: The Greatest Game You Never Played

Almost 10 years ago the greatest first person shooter came out and most of you probably never heard of it, never got to play it and never will.

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FiLTHY ESKiMO1792d ago

Who would the next gen version nor that Zippers gone?

_SilverHawk_1792d ago

I remember this game and it was amazing. I would like it if Sony would make another one because this game was ahead of it's time.

RememberThe3571791d ago

It was an amazing concept and it was a cool game, it was just ahead of it's time. I played the sh!t outta MAG, but the game itself played just okay. I'd love to have seen a sequel, even just a spiritual successor, especially with the next gen coming and the way cloud computing has advanced a game like that nowadays would be awesome.

Elwenil1791d ago

It may have been amazing if you played for SVER, but if you played for Raven or Valor, it was an unbalanced mess. I had some fun with it, but the player count was an illusion at best and false advertising at it's worst. The map and faction balance was so ridiculously skewed you knew who was going to win as soon as you saw what team you were against. It definitely had some interesting ideas, but was far from an amazing experience in my opinion. I would have much rather Zipper have made another SOCOM game rather than MAG.

darthv721791d ago

that game would make for a great battle royale release. So many players all at once... it was ahead of its time for a console shooter.

TheGamez1001792d ago

Was such an underrated game. One of my most favorite fps of last gen. So unfortunate zipper was closed down. Imagine if it was a success and thered be a 2nd game by now.....

TekoIie1792d ago (Edited 1792d ago )

I can think of many better games that I've yet to play...

"Almost 10 years ago the greatest first person shooter came out"

HAH. So is Planetside 2 now the best FPS ever? Because it does everything MAG can and does it far better. I'm afraid that MAG is basically your standard FPS but uses scale as it's selling point. The vast majority of shooters that focus on smaller scale matches have gameplay leaps and bounds better than MAG so it is definitely not the greatest FPS.

I know many people are going to try and refute this by telling me to look at the three factions but MAG has literally no character. The game is call 'Massive. Action. Game' for gods sake which is a contender for 'The Worst Title a Game Could Have' award. I've never been a fan of Zipper but I hear great things about them from their PS2 days. However, with MP gaining popularity in the generation that followed I think it says a lot that they couldn't keep up with the competition.

Knushwood Butt1792d ago

'HAH. So is Planetside 2 now the best FPS ever? Because it does everything MAG can and does it far better.'.

It was released years later.

Was there anything offering what MAG did when MAG was released?

TekoIie1791d ago

"Was there anything offering what MAG did when MAG was released?"

Yes, Planetside 1.

Knushwood Butt1791d ago

Fair enough.

Can't say I've played it, but I enjoyed MAG for a while.

FantasticBoss1790d ago

MAG was one of the very few games trying to do scale like it did, but I think it missed the mark. Wish it could have had a sequel though as they may have been able to iterate on it to create something pretty neat.

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Profchaos1790d ago

Sony had a awesome approach to online in the PS2 days with SOCOM co op that had games working together to achieve a tactical goal they pioneered voice chat on the PS2 for SOCOM but as they steamrolled ahead it was clear team Deathmatch would take over in popularity which shifted zippers approach so all their experience amounted for not much when designing online in the PS3 era.
It still was a decent game but couldn't stand out compared to cod which had millions of players consistently

yellowgerbil1792d ago

Loved mag had over 1700hrs into it across many accounts, remember my first 100 kill sabotage game, was insane

BLow1790d ago

Yes, so do I and not that game they released on PS3. I'm talking the one Zipper did and not Slant Six. At least Slant Six tried to do the series justice once they fixed the issues.

The one Zipper did didn't feel like Socom to me. It felt more like Ghost Recon to be honest. I absolutely loved the voice commands and I figured they would be even better on next gen hardware. They didn't even bother doing anything.

Maybe, I just wanted it more grounded and not so techy if that makes sense. I just wanted to go into jungles or missions just using my wits and patience and not have to use a bunch of gadgets. I wanted to be able to give orders with my voice to squad members. Yeah, they can at least have earpieces lol.

It's hard to explain but I know the old school Socom players know what I'm saying. Socom just had a certain feeling and the new game didn't feel that way. Slant Six yes. Zipper no...

We can only hope but if they bring it back they have to do it right. If not don't bother and just make something new. I rather have the memories I had with Socom be mostly positive than negative. Unless you pull a God of War, don't bother lol.

I've already said too much but that goes to show how much I loved Socom. Especially 1 and 2.....

Deathdeliverer1791d ago (Edited 1791d ago )

Game was simply ahead of its time. If mag came out now with improved graphics people would be blown away. Back then people whined about the graphics even though it had players literally everywhere. It was several great games in one. Battlefield, Ghost Recon, and Call of duty.

Hungryalpaca1791d ago

What exactly was it ahead of its time in? Player count? Planetside released in 2003 and and played count per match was over 300.

xkvcq1790d ago (Edited 1790d ago )

The BETA for MAG was one of my fondest gaming moments. I was highly anticipating the start of the beta servers but I had school that day. I had started downloading it that morning as soon as it was available and just when it finished downloading I found out school was cancelled, last minute, because of weather. BEST. SNOW DAY. EVER. I played the beta all day, continuing to put off my homework :P

TekoIie1790d ago (Edited 1790d ago )

Well have I got news for you pal! Planetside 2 has been available for nearly 4 years on the PS4 and longer on PC and people still aren't blown away. Maybe the novelty of scale is actually overrated and people don't care as much about it which is why MAG failed when multiplayer shooters were at peak popularity during it's lifetime?

If you were blown away by 256 players in 2010 why would you not have been blown away by 1000 roughly 2-3 years later?

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