Little has been said about Zipper Interactive’s new 256 player online FPS since it was first announced at last years E3, but that has just changed when the company demoed the game in its full live 256 player mode live on stage during Sony’s E3 press conference.

The game splits the 2 forces down into squads of 8, each with their own squad commander who issues out the orders for the rest of the squad through a squad command screen.  The objectives we are shown all involve capturing and destroying locations in a very COD4 kind of way, plant the bomb, defend the bomb, run!  Once captured, helicopters armed with miniguns swoop in to defend the locations and act as forward spawn points for when troops die.

There are a few nice touches though, we saw a UAV launched to uncover the enemy on the map quickly followed by a well placed airstrike, but this was quickly shot down by the enemies AA batteries, it then became a new objective for the squads to take out the AA guns.

All in all MAG is looking VERY impressive and very tactical, stay tuned for more details.

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