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Planetside 2 is an upcoming video game published by Sony Online Entertainment. The game is a sequel to Planetside originally released in 2003. The game was officially announced on July 7, 2011 at the Sony Fan Fair. As in the first Planetside, Planetside 2 chronicles the efforts of the three factions as the fight for territorial control of the planet Auraxis.

Planetside 2 will be a re-imagining of Planetside, featuring the same world, factions and taking place at roughly the same time period. As in the previous game, Planetside 2 will feature territory control in an open-world, large battles featuring hundreds of players on foot or land/air vehicles. The territory system is more complex than in the original PlanetSide, and will play a bigger part in shaping the battlefield. SOE has been working on balance issues from the first game. Matt Higby, the creative director, has stated “We’re definitely going to be rewarding combatants on lower population empires through mechanics such as proportionally increased advancement rates and resources and we’ll be attempting to balance the overall empire saturation on each server as much as we can without force-restricting folks from being able to play with their friends.

Planetside 2 will be free-to-play, but the exact form is still under consideration. The developers have indicated an admiration of the League of Legends model. Planetside 2 will feature certain free aspects, and will include a cash shop. The cash shop will not sell items such as guns or vehicles that make players more powerful. The cash shop will sell things such as customization.

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Destroys E3

15 June, 2012 - Flaps | 0 Comments

Planetside 2 practically wins E3, 28 nominations and 14 wins. PC Gamer - Best in Show, Best MMO, Best Shooter, Most Awards. Lol. http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/16/pc-gamers-best-of-e3-awards/9/#gallery-top

Planetside 2 takes E3 by storm

13 June, 2012 - Flaps | 0 Comments

Check out the full article, with streaming gameplay, videos and interviews at the link below:

http://www.planetside-universe.com/p-e3-2012-roundup-109.htm

Awards

GamerLive.tv - #1 in Top 5 PC Games of E3

PlanetSide 2w made its big debut during E3 and we couldn’t get enough of the game. Graphics are top notch, scale is massive and the amount of content you’re getting is staggering. There are so many options you can attack it’s almost absurd

Massively - MMO of the show

Sure there were fancier booths, and shooters may not be your cup of tea, but PS2's gameplay nonetheless stands out from the crowd.

Game Informer - Best of Show

I already knew I was on board with Planetside 2’s persistent warfare that puts everyone in the same world without splitting up into 16-, 32-, or even 64-player matches. The foremost question on my mind was whether it could deliver the kind of pixel-perfect shooter gameplay that any Call of Duty or Battlefield player expects. My hat is off to Sony Online, because I wouldn’t have known I was playing an MMO-scale title, with hundreds of players fighting dozens of skirmishes in a three-way war spanning multiple continents, from how good it felt to vaporize my enemies with hand weapons, vehicles, and aircraft alike.

Gamespy - Best Shooter, Best Free-to-Play, and Best PC Exclusive

PlanetSide 2w made such an impression on us from the first moment we laid hands on it that we've declared it the Best Shooter, Best Free-to-Play Game, and Best PC-Exclusive Game of E3 2012. How did it become our most-decorated game? Simple: where most shooters go to great lengths to create the illusion that we're part of huge war raging around us, PlanetSide 2w actually creates the war.

MMORPG.com - Game of Show

There were also nominations from Destructoid, Machinima, G4TV, Ten Ton Hammer, GamingExcellence, Original-Gamer, GameRant and GamingXP.