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Procrastinato on 14 January 2010
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FKNetwork said:
Procrastinato said:
snyperdud said:
FKNetwork said:
MAG = FAIL
The beta was terrible, one of the worst FPS's I have played this gen

Care to elaborate? 

He can't elaborate, because its very likely he never actually played the beta.  FKNetwork is a 360 fanatic.

Honestly I think that anyone who actually played the beta for any significant amount of time liked the game a lot.  Almost everyone who "disliked it" can barely put together a decent description as to why they disliked it, outside of some generic "the graphics were bad" (they're not -- and Eurogamer's Digital Foundry agrees, even after only the first beta, and they are pretty thorough), or "the guns were weak" (they're not, unless you're totally dependant on an auto-aim assist landing a zillion shots in a row for you, like in CoD) which is pretty telling.  

Anyone who gave it just one or two games, and then shelved it, wasn't really interested in the first place -- every MP game I have ever played has a good number of "good" and "bad" matches, thanks to -- you guessed it -- the players in the match.  If you only try a couple matches, you weren't really giving the game (ANY game) a fair shake.

The same can be said for BF:BC2, MW2, KZ2, Halo 3/ODST/whatever, etc.

Absolute bollo*ks, I own all the current gen consoles and although I'm not a fan of the wii I actually like the PS3, just because I don't like MAG doesn't mean i'm a 360 fanboy lol.

The game is rubbish, well, the beta was anyway, I played for a good 3-5 hours and I can honestly say it is one of the worst FPS's I have played this generation, also, go and look at most of the previews and hand on articles on the major gaming sites, none of them are impressed, ign, eurogamer, 1up aren't impressed at all.

 

25 seconds to respawn is a huge fail too considering it takes ages to get back into the action as the maps are so big (and bland), the sound is poor too, and a whole clip to kill someone, hardly relistic when one shot in real life would usually kill someone, since when do guns sound like tin cans? the time it takes to actually start a game too, wow!

 

I think you just verified that you didn't play the open beta at all.  The recent comments by IGN, after they played for about a half hour it seems, were about the only bad thing I've ever read about it, via the media.  I've never seen a respawn take longer than 18 seconds, and usually its far less (I would wager about 9 seconds on average, since the respawn timer is constantly spawning waves), one shot kills aren't found in almost ANY FPS every made, because, well, that wouldn't be very fun.  Frankly, its not overly realistic either, unless you're talking about really large caliber hits.  5.56mm ammo is notorious for not stopping the enemy easily, when they are fired up on battlefield adrenaline.  I also found the battlefield audio fantastic in 5.1 surround...  maybe I'd need some little headphones, or some laptop speakers and then it might be poor.  I wouldn't blame the game, though.  I did play long enough to make it to the battlefields with the airstrikes, mortar strikes, turret emplacements, etc..

On top of that, I can't ever recall waiting more than a few seconds to play a match in the open beta, and I logged a good 10+ hours.  I don't believe you ever played the game, sir, or if you did, you're addressing concerns that have vanished since the time when you played it.

You should certainly follow your own advice and avoid it, however -- it obviously didn't strike a chord with you at all if you did play.  I don't think you can speak for anyone else, however.  We all had the opportunity to try it out, thanks to the open beta.  Reviews of the game are hardly even needed, at this point.