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E3 2008: Zipper Interactive's MAG promises 256-player online wars

Posted Jul 16, 2008 at 2:43PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3 Tags: e3, industry news, Jack Tretton, Socom
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MAG - Image 1While a lot of people are convinced that Resistance 2's 60-player online battles will be phenomenal, that feat will soon be overshadowed by a more elaborate effort in online action.

Zipper Interactive, best known for their work on the SOCOM series, revealed a new project codenamed MAG (massive action game) for the PlayStation 3 which will have the capacity to host 256 players all at the same time.


The devs said that their upcoming game will have 256 humans divided into teams of eight (that's 32 teams) fighting free-for-all style in one giant map. That certainly sounds fun, but we know you're wondering how long you'll have to wait to set up matches.

That hasn't been answered yet, but we hope the devs do in time. Jack Tretton has gone out of his way to remind people that they're accomplishing all this in the PS3's sophomore year. What more could be in the pipeline as we go along? We'll see.

MAG - Image 1 MAG - Image 2



Via Joystiq



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# like i said with killzone 2death 2008-07-16 18:03
if the controls are as tight as cod4 the game will rock

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# hmmmDarthsappy23 2008-07-16 18:12
sound like it should be fun, hope there isnt much lag. id like to see some more screens, trailers or just info on it b4 i make too big of a decision either way

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# rememberchessboxer 2008-07-16 22:36
the main cause of lag is server load, not network bandwidth (on the servers end). As long as the hardware on the server is top notch (Intel > AMD), there shouldn't be an problem.



Each PS3 will only be sending a few kb/s to the server, maybe a bit more if people use voice chat but nothing substantial.

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# You're rightcizzar 2008-07-17 01:21
The server only receives the positions of the players, and what they are doing, but isn't voice chat p2p ?

Also lag can happen when you're connected with Wi-fi and the signal is bad or unstable ...



Anyways I hope the game will be great, because people won't buy a *****ty game just because you can play vs 255 other players ...

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# To add on what was saidSikWitThiz 2008-07-17 03:29
If you look at the users signal in what ever room your in. Lags usually come from the host having a crappy connection. They either have issues sending or receiving pings so it makes their connection to the server glitch or lag. This happens on any system or game when people dont configure their routers to handling whats plugged in.

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# ....Silver-Tiger 2008-07-17 03:43
if this is true, the game will be EPIC.

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# wellemcp 2008-07-17 06:57
while your only uploading your position and other details,

your downloading 256 other peoples details ????



(btw i aint an expert but im pretty sure thats how online works)

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# mmemcp 2008-07-17 06:59
well, 256 multiplayer game doesnt count if its a pacman game



well have to wait and see the quality

atleast we had RFOM, so we can expect something similar if not better

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# please dontdeath 2008-07-17 20:29
pacman was an AWSOME game which i still play today ..... don't use pacman as a term equal to crap/ lesser quality instead i suggest the term brotrr :P

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