A sub-par first person shooter plagued with unresolved technical issues - that's how i'd sum up Planetside so far. Even with a very powerful PC/laptop you'll likely encounter horrendous lag and slowdown, even in relatively quite areas of the game. For example, whenever entering or leaving a building expect a 1-3 second lock-up as the shoddy game engine tries to stream textures from your hardrive. The same goes for battles - lag and stuttering can render game completely unplayable. Technical frustrations and lack of support from the Planetside developers aside, what you're left with is an ill-conceived game that basically wants to be the first fps to include mmog elements, despite the obvious flaws with this concept. There's very little point to capturing bases as they'll simply be recaptured a few moments later, and the slow character progression just makes the game feel restricting as you move from vehicle to vehicle only to discover you don't have the appropriate skills to use them.
I started out as everybody else back in 2003 but quickly advanced in command rankings and by the end of 2004 i was ranked #2 in the world all servers all empires. Only beaten by my good friend JeffBeefJaw :) So as an ... Read Full Review
In 2003 Sony released this ambitious MMO that puts you in the thick of futuristic warfare. Planetside puts a fully functional FPS game that has a lot of elements of an RPG, and surprisingly enough manages to pull it off ... Read Full Review
