75
The shooter fundamentals are all there. The visuals are great but the progression just doesn't seem to deliver any payoff for players outside of the hardcore. It's not quite as much of a shameless cash grab as something out of Zynga, but it definitely sours the experience.
90
Planetside 2 is a good free-to-play, strong functional and very funny, which does not envy anything to the founders of the first-person shooter genre.
89
It might look overly complicated, but PlanetSide 2 is nothing more than your average class-based, objective-oriented competitive FPS. What makes it stand apart from other F2P games (aside from the huge servers, of course) is the co-operation factor with other players. [February 2013]
6
6/10 Combat.
10/10 Existential Dread. It's a fun enough gameBut you'd be a fool to believe that you can make a difference.
0
Softcore, unbalanced, Big 100+ level people who love to farm new players repetitively and get a Bonner from it. Lots of people hacking with wall hacks. Unless you have a wad of cash be prepared to die a lot to people with OP guns. it used to be the default guns were great and some of the best but now its a game of steam roll your opponent and camp there spawn room. or die alot to a lvl 100 just trying to get out the spawn room there is no in-between there are very few magical moments that make you want to keep playing. You can spend clip after clip unloading in to someone for them to take you down in an instant With the NSX weapons. Anti vehicle rockets are like pea shooters that deal little to no damage on any targets. Your only friend is c4. people can quite easily walk through clamours and such taking very little damage. Not fun at all in its current state. Even the anti vehicle turrets are shockingly underpowered these days and you can get blown off them in one hit. I mean honestly play fortnite. At least you have the option to gain every weapon your opponent has in a reasonable amount of time. That is skill based this is a cash grab. Before daybreak took hold of this game it was epic whole 100+ man squads running over the battlefield bullets whizzing left right and centre its a far cry from the game i once fell in love with. And another note anything you buy on offer just is not worth having in the first place. Eg a cash grab!
9
In some respects PS2 deserves a 10 just for being the only game delivering on such a large scale and immersive conflict, it really is a feat of engineering and brings a kind of awe and spectacle that not other game can match. I would suggest to disregard any review that cites "P2W", these players are either misinformed, or whiney losers. I am likely a top 1-3% player in this game with multiple thousands of hours, and a long history of play in the games top Outfits ("Clans"). I can assure you that I, or anyone else similarly skilled can play a completely free account and be absolutely dominate in game; in fact there are many players who are better than me who do just that. For over a decade now the game has gotten continued updates and support. The game is genuinely F2P with an extremely conservative cash shop that offers no real combat power. The game is shockingly well balanced despite the 4 different factions and diverse arrary of land, sea, and air combat, both as infantry and in vehicles; and the combat of each type feels tight and engaging. My only gripe about the game is that it has serious performance issues, maintaining 60 fps or more in these large scale battles is necessary if you want to be a MLG level fragger, but despite upgrading my PC several times over the years I always find myself hungry for more and more performance. As a related issue, a common complaint about the game is that its graphics are dated and ugly, which is at least half way true, Planetside is never beautiful under close inspection, but can be dazzling when admiring the battle as a whole - however in the quest for better frame rates and performance many players (myself included) end up downgrading our graphics to the point that the game does become genuinely ugly. I want to give the developers some slack as top tier graphics just wont work on this scale ****, but if my performance remains only borderline satisfactory after a decade of new PC parts, this can only mean the game is slowly becoming unoptimized over time as well which leads most players to being in a constant performance limbo where a new PC upgrade only feels tangibly powerful for a limited time. All things said, Planetside 2 is an incredible game, at the individual level it is a fun tight shooter as good as any other triple A franchise, on a scale of spectacle and immersion that no other game can even approach. The fact this game has been constantly operated and updated for over 10 years as a genuinely F2P game is nothing short of a miracle.
PlanetSide 2
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Nov 20, 2012
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84
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Nov 24, 2012
95
Be warned though, this is a very addictive game, and it could spoil your previous favourite shooter with its incredible sense of scale. It's astonishing to see a free to play game deliver such a polished package, that also breaks new technological boundaries.
Dec 6, 2012
90
PlanetSide 2 will make your heart pound. It will make you feel childlike, game-induced euphoria. In a sea of FPS copy-cats, it's a novel and refreshing experience.
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Feb 27, 2022
10
Planetside 2, offers a unique Sci-Fi Battlefield experience within the MMOFPS gaming genre. Similarly, it has combined arms with aircrafts, vehicle and infantry fights. Differences, good/bad is that battles have no pax limits in a single hex which means you can get some insane battles or/and get some crippling performance with those fights.
Mar 3, 2021
10
A refreshing mix of an MMO and an FPS. One of the best free games on the market, I highly suggest it. The grind at first to get to a point where you don't get killed immediately is grueling, but the payout is extremely satisfying. 10/10, would definitely recommend!
Jan 6, 2013
85
The feeling of potencythat grips you when you storm through the map alongside hundreds of your allies is one of a kind. Neither Call of Duty nor Battlefield can provide you with this impression of taking part in something grand. [1/2013, p.56]
Nov 29, 2012
84
PlanetSide 2 is a great MMOFPS that is unrivaled when it comes to recreating a battlefield. It is unusually large, intense, free to play and it offers many customization options.
Dec 6, 2012
80
It might take a while to figure out how its various mechanics work and its pacing may be too slow for some, but PlanetSide 2 is a solid shooter that does a very good job of merging the social aspects of an MMO with the action-heavy game play of an FPS.
Nov 19, 2012
70
SoE had a clear goal in mind with Planetside 2: the same game with prettier graphics and more accessibility. In both regards, it's a success. The massive war atmosphere is there. Let's hope that it will evolve in order to trump a possible weariness of the basic war mechanics with new stuff and a storytelling element that writer Marv Wolfman could contribute.
Dec 28, 2020
10
I play this game since many years it's always in progress some time i just need to change game but after 2500 hours in i can told you it's not a pay to win! You play alone, you can play in a squad if you want for more impact a win the alert,i recomand that
Jan 28, 2022
7
How to play Planetside 2: - Choose one of three factions: 1. The cool tech faction 2. The alien tech faction 3. AMURICA - Choose a starting class - Get immediately thrown in a squad where the leaders start shouting at you for being a new guy that doesn't win the game for them - Spawn wherever the squad is - Walk around for 5 seconds, looking for enemies to shoot at - Get killed by a sniper - Respawn. Run as fast as you can to avoid the sniper - Find the massive cluster of 20 units, both from your faction and the enemy faction - Shoot five shots that all result in friendly fire, before you get killed by a guy in power armor - Respawn and return to the cluster of people. fire six shots this time, two of which hit an enemy and the rest of which miss completely. get killed by the guy in the power armor again - Respawn and try to flank the cluster by going around. Uh-oh! you forgot about the sniper. but he didn't forget about you. He shoots you before you can react. - Respawn again, and try to outrun the sniper again. you fail, and he kills you. - Respawn once more, this time try to shoot at the sniper. But he's too quick, and shoots you twice in the head before you can even find him in your scope - Change to sniper so you can try to one-shot the sniper. you go a different direction to flank the sniper, but as soon as you manage to scope him, you realize that the cluster has now seen you, and is after you. You get killed by a grenade thrown from the cluster. - Respawn and go in an entire different direction, away from everyone, and try to look for someone who is alone. You find one! - Too bad for you he has 2561 hours in Planetside and has sick reaction skills. He's also a heavy, that activates his armor boost so your shots do little to no damage to him. he kills you - At this point, the cluster has moved to your spawn area, and you get killed two-three times before you finally give in. You leave the squad and redeploy - Spawn in a different location with fewer people. Get a few good hits, but suddenly a tank drives up behind you and shoots you in the back. - Respawn as Heavy to try and take out the tank, but the tank is long gone. before you manage to look up, a sci-fi helicopter of sorts kill you with an overkill amount of rockets that he clearly could've used on someone else. - Redeploy to VR Training and hide, for there nobody can hurt you. 7/10 would get killed by MAX suit again
Nov 20, 2021
7
Ich finde das Spiel einfach klasse. Toller MMO FPS der sich super flüssig spielt auf riesiegen Maps und 100erten von Spielern und das völlig kostenlos. Bin begeistert und kann Planetside 2 jedem empfehlen der auch gerne Battlefield spielt.
Feb 11, 2014
4
I've been waiting for a stellar MMOFPS title. A friend recommended I give Planetside 2 a try, and try it I did. Planetside 2 is massive, as the genre classification would suggest, and offers tons of places to go. But the glaring problem is that PS2 is completely aimless, cheap, and at times ugly in its presentation. There is little rhyme or reason to what you're doing. There is next to zero help in getting started. There are several vehicles which are somewhat appealing but anything in the air is tough to control and requires an insanely high level of precision and mastery to be effective with. PS2 is perhaps the worst FPS experience for newcomers on the market. The graphics always look like they're stuck in beta builds no matter how powerful your graphics card is. I constantly wished for more cohesion amongst players and objectives but was constantly disappointed. The freedom aspect is a nice IDEA that is entirely left undeveloped. If you wish to do anything in this game, you MUST go where the hordes are. Taking bases can be fun but there's a heavy amount of patience required whether you're on offense or defense. PS2 made me long for Guild Wars 2's World vs World PVP, which I felt was a bit too massive and tough to work with. There is a pillar or two upon which Planetside 2 can stand on. It's a free to play game so there's no such thing as a waste of money, only time (but time is money, right?). There is some variation to play styles and classes and, when you finally do get the hang of the game after numerous hours and a terrible learning curve, there is some intense fun that can be had. But the fun is fleeting - coming and going almost in an instant. The best moments tend to be when a smaller pocket of resistance is met where you aren't potentially being targeted by 400 enemies. MMOFPS is a genre that is guaranteed to work, but titles like Destiny or The Division, which are on their way for PCs and consoles in 2014, find better balances and won't force you to constantly play with complete strangers or unorganized factions/guilds. If Planetside 2 could offer some good fun away from the large battles, maybe there would be something special here. But nothing is special, beautiful, reasonable or interesting about Planetside 2. Unless Sony completely overhauls a future title and I receive credible word about this franchise evolving into a complete game experience, I won't even bother with a free-to-play Planetside 3 and beyond.
Nov 9, 2013
4
I have nothing against games that are free to play in fact I quite like them, however I would appreciate it if they said pay to win instead of free to play when that is the case, Planetside2 is an example of pay to win. Yes items are obtainable via game play if you have 100 years to spare... You are fighting to achieve nothing, you can't win your contribution doesn't matter because there is no goal there is no aim just shooting, anything you capture would have swapped hands by the time you log back on again. So yeh mindless shooting without achieving anything this game is simply for those who like shooting.
SummaryPlanetSide 2 is an MMO FPS set in an online persistent world where the war wages non-stop and the balance of power shifts with every base and territory captured and lost.
Rated Tfor Teen
