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MAG is an online, 256 player, first person shooter for the PlayStation 3. Join a Private Army. Grow your skills. Wage war against the opposition and claim victory for your faction!

MAG, an acronym for Massive Action Game, is a large scale online multi-player first person shooter war-game that can support up to 256 players at once. There will be several squads 8 player squads engaging in war across the map at any given time, allowing for massive battles to be waged. 4 squads form a platoon and 4 platoons form a company. Players can customize their characters look and specialize their combat skills.

Gameplay information includes:

• First Person Shooter (FPS)

• Aiming for "T" Rating

• Wave Respawn

   - You spawn in "timed waves" and you spawn in with your squad.

   - Some lucky squads get to paradrop into the combat zone or ride in on APCs

• 256 players online

   - Can be on screen at the same time, so it is not broken down into split areas of the map

• Strictly multiplayer - Online only

   - Possibly only retail release (Ed Byrne stated, "MAG is too massive to be a mere downloadable title)

   - No splitscreen (Mike Gutmann stated, "We've got huge environments and lots of streaming going on to achieve fidelity - split screen would cause some real limitations)

   - There will be an offline training course to let you get up to speed with controls, weapons, and all the equipment

• Action Shooter at its core

• Long Term Goals

• Vehicles including ground and air combat (unmanned)

• Destructability only with objects that can be destroyed or repaired, not full destruction.

• Set in the near future, 20 years from now

   - Many weapons in the game are weapons currently in experimental/testing phases

• Audio cues (like air raid sirens after anti-aircraft positions are destroyed) inform teams if the attacking team is making ground

• Game modes ranging from 64 to 256 players

• Biggest maps are appx. 1 square kilometre

   - Maps are based on three global regions - Alaska, Central Asia, and Central America

• Matchmaking fast and streamlined

• Push to talk (PTT) mics

   - Squad channel

   - Command channel (allows squad leaders to talk amongst themselves, as well as platoon leaders)

   - Company channel (allows platoon leaders to talk together with the OIC)

• FREE online play

Player Roles:

• 8 player squads

   - Inspiration from real life military operations

   - 4 squads form a platoon, 4 platoons form the company

   - Each squad, platoon, and company have specific objectives to complete along with secondary objectives assigned by OIC

   - Allows for a team dynamic even when not in a clan, so the game is more approachable by casual players as well as hardcore players

• Lead by people who are "proven" to be good leaders

   - Squad Leaders vs Even higher Chains of Command

   - After reaching a veteran level, players can enlist in the leadership tree

   - Squad leaders can plot waypoints and call in UAVs

   - Proven squad leaders can be promoted to platoon leaders

   - Leaders can issue FRAGO commands (Fragmentary Orders), in which they assign an objective by clicking a button that tells the squad to complete something like destroying a bridge

• Officer in Charge (1 per team, highest level of command)

   - Has the ability to call on Strategic Maneuvers, which affect all players on one side or the other

   - Tactical Asset Recharge is an example manuever that recharges the squads leaders abilities to call in air strikes, special abilities, etc.

   - Abilities include satellite recon sweeps, enemy blockades, signals jamming, air bombardments, precision strikes, etc.

   - Still a player on the ground like everyone else

   - Players around him gain better abilities, like running faster, planting a bomb faster, etc.

• Leaders have access to the Command Network Interface (CNI), which is a tactical map overview that allows them to zoom and scan the map and show objective locations, etc.