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First real, tiny screen of Sony's 'Massive Action Game'

by Randy Nelson on Jul 22nd 2008 10:58PM

Here, in all its compressed glory, is the first actual screenshot of Sony and Zipper Interactive's 256-player MAG: Massive Action Game. We say "actual" because it was clear to anyone with eyes that Sony had pulled another Killzone 2 with the MAG video debuted during its pre-E3 press conference. In other words, it was all pre-rendered.

MAG senior producer Rade Stojsavljevic posted the shot to the official PlayStation blog, calling it "a sneak peak from one of [Zipper's] internal play sessions." Stojsavljevic also said that the dev has used its experience working in online games with the SOCOM franchise to create an entirely new server architecture for MAG capable of supporting its, well, massive amount of players.

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Tags: mag, massive-action-game, PS3, socom, sony, zipper

Reader Comments (77)

The killzone 2 hype machine has to stop. It will fail.

Can I borrow your Delorean so I change the future and prove you wrong Dr. Brown?

should probably be renamed LAG

hahahahahahh HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA hhahahahhahahahaha HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA your soooooooooooooo funny, i havent heard that joke before,, omg , did you go to comedy school, ROFL 111!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!!!

psn uses dedicated servers with games like this, there will be no lag. believe it, i know its hard to, when you lag horribly in a 16 person halo game it is understandable why you can't fathome. ive never had a laggy 40 person resistence match, and only lag free 32 person warhawk matches. 60 person resistence and 256 person mag seems well within the range.

i have one and only one response BULLSHIT

Well, if 256 players is too hard for a single dedicated server, how is WoW able to support thousands of players on a single dedicated server?

(My guess: some sort of witchcraft.)

Hmm, I never have any lag on Halo3...wierd.

You should have used Army of Two. Oh wait, thats on EA servers, nevermind. =/ Anyway not all PS3 games have deditcated servers, its a known fact! This game will though I mean IT HAS TO! Looking forward to it.

Jeez dude, I made that lag joke years ago :S And I was messing about, you're just slow

“Hmm, I never have any lag on Halo3...wierd”.

Count yourself lucky Halo 3 is a f*cking lag fest for me. It really sucks when I have 1st place and suddenly there is a connection spike, the game ends abruptly showing me 4th place all of the sudden.

Halo 3 needs some sort of way to display your connection before the match starts to see if you are able to play like in TF2.Red light okay I guess I’ll play something else, Green light awesome time to kick ass and take names.

So is this an FPS? Cause if it is I'm not buying I'm fed up with the same generic things every year KZ2 and R2 keep me company if I want to play FPSs on my PS3.

Do we have to pay for Subscription fees?

Its SOCOM...that should answer your question. 1st or 3rd...your choice.

i didn't know there were MODS for BF:BC. o_O

2 things. first i want to play this for myself. second, i think parachuting into enemy range has got to suck.

Having loved some of Zipper's past games...in particular SOCOM 2 (more than 3).......

This will either be a spectacular success or a horrific bastion of bantha poodoo.....

There really has yet to be a console game to really make 64+ players an enjoyable experience.....

so we'll see.

Is there one with 64+ players?

Seems like this game may actaully come out in 09. If its up and running, they may have been working on this for a while

Um yeah sure, like GT5, Home, LBP. More Sony potential for sale. AWESOME. The level of fanboy denial is still stunning. You paid top dollar for a blu ray player that plays gimped down 360 games. Deal with it.

actually, considering what blu-ray players are selling for, we paid rock bottom prices for the best blu-ray player on the market, that plays gimped down 360 games... but with less fan noise.

Steve...your name suits you

Erm...call me sceptical but we are talking about a console which region locks 16player online games to your continent, and still lags disgracefully. GT5P I'm looking at you.

BF2 on the PC, which came out 4 years ago now, pushed the boundary to 64players and that lagged to f*-k as well.

Doesn't bode well is all I'm saying.

Well, Warhawk offers 32 players games with no lag.

It all comes down to whether or not dedicated servers will be set up. Doubtlessly MAG will have dedicated servers, just like Warhawk does and GT5:p doesn't.

Forget lag and servers and crap.

The 1 question I have is: To what extent can I customize my character?

I mean, can I run out into the battlefield wearing a sponge bob square pants outfit and own noobs, so when they are crying from being owned, all they remember is that yellow square pwning thier ass, or will we just be able to boringly chnage our faces and outfit a little ¬_¬?

all yellow squares are now terminate on sight. no exceptions.

Running around in a yellow outfit in a Brown / Grey-ish game, oh yeah that surely won't call any attention.

Lol, I want attention, lmao

One sniper. 255 parashooters.

LET'S DO THIS

god wow, i lol'd so hard imagining that

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