Sony Online Entertainment has been banking on PlanetSide that is its massively multiplayer first-person action game. Sony brings action gaming to the masses. Presently, the massively multiplayer gaming experience only exists in RPG games like the EverQuest and Ultima Online, but the developer Verant claims that a PlanetSide game server will be supporting 3,500 players.
The developer also claims that each continent of the gameworld planet can measure up to maximum of 64 square kilometers like which is about four times as large as a Tribes 2 map. Moreover, a persistent universe and a character advancement system are also there. There is an in-game ranking system by which to measure yourself and others.
In terms of gameplay, now gamers can play the part of a soldier that is caught in a planetary war. Gamers belong to an empire, and the goal of which is to win and hold territories first and then the continents of course.
In such a huge area tactics will play a major role. With the empire allies gamers conduct incursions into enemy territory to get hold of more land and even take up a defensive position in the plot. More to this, gamers may also engage in solo assignments against the enemy.
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