You want to go online and shot people but you also want to make an impact on a larger scale. Might be the game for you?
Here is where things go the other way is PlanetSide a FPS yes it is. Is is only a FPS no it is not. As your actions within PlanetSide effect how things play out. Your action help or hinder the war for the control of the planet Auraxis. Now not only is PlanetSide a FPS where your actions pan things out but then so do the actions of others as this is a MMO on a very very big scale. The battle do not break out on small maps like other onlne FPS games but these maps are huge and can have hundreds of players in a single fight.
I can hear some of you thinking well does PlanetSide have a story...Well you sir at the back with the gren top are right it does indeed have one. The Terran Republic explore a deep space wormhole discovered a single habitable planet. Now this was no normal planet as this had many native, highly developed, and staggeringly familiar flora. Not long after arriving, the colonists discovered the remains and technology of a lost and ancient alien species - the Vanu. One of the key points to the alien tech was rebirthing...This tech not only let then deconstruct and reconstruct their own bodies, allowing fast transportation across the world. It also could bring dead workers back to life. So with a key power like that within reach the story takes a twist when the wormhole collapsed.
PlanetSide has three faction all trying to win the war and take control of the planet:
The Terran Republic, a conservative, authoritarian, collectivist nation who strive to regain contact with the homeworld and reunite the warring factions. Their leadership is a public oligarchy known as the Overwatch, composed of various representative officials and their associated Ministries, who regulate allotted portions of society in accordance with their own expertise and the collective will towards favourable outcomes.
The New Conglomerate, a separatist faction determined to remain free of the controlling and domineering Republic, as well as to liberate the rest of humanity from the Republic, whether or not they share the Conglomerate's theories. Unlike the authoritarian and technocratic TR and VS governments, the NC are fighting for democracy, freedom, and human rights. As a rebel group, their leadership lies with the Revolutionary Command, a visible co-operative of military experts and leaders who direct the liberation efforts as a whole.
The Vanu Sovereignty, a loose transhumanist cult of academics, intellectuals, and technology worshippers who believe that human destiny lies in the further development and exploitation of the alien technology. Their leadership is the clandestine Sovereignty Council, the composition of which is unknown without itself and the existence of which is obscured to those outside the Sovereignty. They see the Republic as pedantic and outmoded, a used-up idea and restriction on the continuing ascendancy of the species through the synthesis of man and machine. They also see the New Conglomerate as a savage, ochlocratic band of thugs who have repackaged old mistakes in new dressings and are desperately afraid of new concepts which they cannot grasp, and the future these promise to the far-sighted
PlanetSide came out on the PC on May 20, 2003 and its System requirements are:
Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
Pentium III 1.6 GHz or equivalent
512 MB RAM
Direct3D compliant video card with 64MB+ RAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
Broadband Internet connection
3.5 GB hard drive space
DirectX 8.1 or greater
So if your looking for an online FPS game which is not just about ranking up but fighting for the greater good of a larger whole then this may well be the game for you: