Gamespothack.com is giving away a handful of coveted beta keys for Planetside 2! Following GDC earlier this year, we noted that the MMO industry is rapidly trending towards the FPS genre for its next major source of inspiration. While most of the titles we’ve been watching tend to stick with the tried and true formula of arena combat or smaller scale skirmish warfare, Planetside 2 is an altogether different beast. At its core, Planetside 2 is a worthy and true successor to the original. However, I would still argue that the original Planetside was a game ahead of its time, and entered the market prior to the mass market appeal that both MMOs and the FPS genre have since benefited from. Likewise, hardware back then necessitated that you might only have hundreds of players on a server, whereas with Planetside 2 everything is bigger, bolder, and average systems can now handle the thousands of players per server that PS2 will support. Heading into E3 this year, PS2 is one o...
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