New MAG beta downloadable for existing players August 24

@ilduce620 I love MAG, but the wait times became unbearable and was the ONLY reason why I traded it in.

@The angry pro consumer gaming ga They can be rather long, I'll admit. Suppression matches load quickly for me, but if you do "Directives," you can definitely sit there for minutes waiting (but you get Double XP for doing so).

Again, however, the additional content should keep the game on people's radars, hopefully enticing people to try this worthy game.

@MrAlex

ZING!

I think it depends on you really. I LOVE playing Battlefield games online and while I like MAG, it just doesn't seem as FUN to me... I'd say just rent it out for a week and see how it is, then buy it if you like it.

@The MARIO
It's pretty weak. there are hardly enough players to fill the big game modes which are, ironically, the big selling points of the game (128/256 player games), so unless you like sitting in queues, you end playing Sabotage which is really just BFBC2's rush mode but with only two controls points and no vehicles.and no destructible environments and weaker graphics and fewer weapon types (but it does have more players woohoo).

The weapons/leveling suffers from a lot of "sameness" giving little incentive to level up (I bought it day one and *still* use the 1st level LMG as my main weapon).,

People who love it usually cite "teamwork" as the big feature but this only occurs if you play with a a squad of people you know, I've only seen it happen spontaneously with randoms on extremely rare occasions.

So, unless you have 256 friends who are all willing to make time and schedule a video game date, it sort of a turkey.

To their credit, Zipper has tried very hard to polish this turd but like the saying goes, that only gets you so far. It CLEARLY had a ton of potential but was boned by being released WAY before it was fleshed out. That's why they're essentially redoing the enitre game/beta thing that's being announced here.

I literally had this game sitting out to take to Gamestop this morning but given what they pay and some of the stuff above, I'll probably just hold onto it and ride it out to the bitter end. :)

Wrong link

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/11/playstation-move-unboxed-demo-disc-detailed/