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Closing Comments
If and when MAG finds a dedicated audience and the casual, blood-crazed floating audience drifts away, it should blossom into something tactical and smart, those 128-player teams creating a militarised war that nothing else on console can come close to. That's the game it wants to be, and the game it deserves to be. Alas, it may have shot itself in the foot with the epic headcount: even in the early, 64-player modes it's going to be daunting and punishing for newcomers. A fiddly HUD that makes getting a bead on squad- (as opposed to faction-) mates and objectives far less obvious than it should be doesn't help there – without a good, talkative commander, relative newcomers are going to flail around desperately. Despite those buttoned-down starting modes, without any single-player content to practice on there's a serious barrier to entry for casual shooter players. Like Warhawk and Quake Wars: Enemy Territory before it, it may well flounder as a result, regardless of its beefy merits. But it works. It really does.
| Rating | Description | |
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| out of 10 | click here for ratings guide |
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| 6.0 | Presentation No-frills, straight-to-the action has its merits when your trigger finger’s all itchy, but more character would go a long way. Big battles are a great sight, but everything else is so perfunctory. |
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| 8.0 | Graphics It’s, y’know, fine. Unexceptional, but never embarrassing. Individual characters look a few years old, but that’s a necessary and forgivable side-effect of how many chaps it has to pack in. |
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| 7.0 | Sound Again, it’s not big on character. Expect standard-issue military grunts and menu music, but little else. Some guns don’t feel as meaty as you’d hope either. |
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| 7.5 | Gameplay The core mechanics – taken wholesale from other big-map team shooters – are strong, but the dated HUD and over-prevalance of lone-wolves risks it becoming far more drearily ordinary than it is. |
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| 7.5 | Lasting Appeal Depends on whether you truly identify with one of the factions. Otherwise, the bland anonymity of it all means that brain-itch to continually climb the level ladder will wear off fast. |
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| 7.6 |
OVERALL (out of 10 / not an average) |
Other MAG reviews:-
Destructoid = 8/10
TheSixthAxis = 8/10
Meristation = 8/10
Nowgamer = 6.8/10
Play.tm = 80%
Inc Gamers = 8/10
Bone-idle = 96%
9Lives = 73/100
Strategy Informer = 8/10
Explict Gamer = 8/10
WonderwallWeb = 9/10
The Gaming Liberty = 9/10
Push Square = 4/4
VG-Reloaded = 8.0/10
PSX Extreme = 8.3/10
Everyeye.it = 7.2/10
Eurogamer = 7/10
Videogamer = 710
CheatCodeCentral = 3.7/5.0
PlayStation LifeStyle = 5/5
(13 reviews) (6 reviews)
76 77.83%
