Planet Side 2 Review

Sony Online Entertainment's flagship MMOFPS was a real fresh mix up for this overly congested theme park based market. Now the game has taken PVP turned it on its head and has actually made major improvements over the traditional instanced battleground pvp. Now the real question is can SOE still stand up to the other companies that are  beating them in profits? That is hard to say, but one thing that is hard to disagree with is Planet Side 2 has left a mark on this gaming industry.



In the above video I go over the classes in the game and tell you what weapons they use and what the main job is for each of the classes. So please feel free to watch the video to see the classes because I will go over the rest of the features and by pass the classes in part of the review process.

PVP

The pvp of this game is just full of action combat whether it is the enemy tanks or air support you know that you will need to watch your back. There are some issues though that this game faces and it is mostly balance issues. When you are fighting you will notice that the air support using rocket pods are far more powerful than any of your tanks. This is by design but the game added this but there was no scissors to the paper. A game like this needs a rock paper scissors rule not rock paper bazooka it does not work.

PVE 

This is acutally none existant in the game which is very sad and can be annoying to what we call "care bears". These are players that will avoid pvp and only PVE (player vs enviroment). So if you like pve more than pvp you might want to avoid the game because there is no pve in this game.

Overall Game Play

The game does play well for most of the day towards late night they are forced to reset the area because the amount of combat and sudden changes make it to difficult for the server to handle. So the GM (game master) has to get on and the reset the area. Now there is also the issue of hacking, and this issue has completley gotten out of hand. It is okay if I see the occasional hacker (not saying hacking is good) but to see 3-10 a day is completley out of hand and SOE needs to get control over this issue.

My Thoughts

This game is very well designed and I like the uniqueness of the game but I feel that the game has a bad community since your own factions can and will kill you. I have been shot down from my own team mates and they tell me who killed me. So what i do to him is i find him and I kamikaze my ship into them.. It is all in good fun though kill/death ratio means nothing and I play the game because it breaks the grind of other games and it is fun. If this is something that you would be interested in playing download it from here.

Planet Side 2

https://www.planetside2.com/