Sony wanted to conquer the world 15 years ago.The plan: Finally Battlefield and Call of Duty should be shown in the barriers and ego shooter fans should be offered a new home on PlayStation 3.
An exclusive game should lure people into PSN with its modern military setting, developed by a team with great experience in the shooter genre. And indeed:The result is still recorded on consoles to this day- at least if it goes according to the Guinness Book of Records.
256 players per match - a miracle for the PS3
When(The abbreviation for Massive Action Game) appeared in January 2010, Sony's third -generation console had been bumping for four years. The revised Slim variant was released for Christmas business in 2009 - and likedA technical milestone.
But this time players and testers were not so amazed at the graphic (it was only okay), but about the one at the timeNew server technology and the netcode. They allowed - and that was evenAn entry Guiness book of the recordValue - 256 players per game.
To date there isno other pure console game,that offers such large online battles. However, another shooter for PC and PS4 has even more simultaneous players per match.
The record was cracked on the PC
In 2015, Planetside 2 (ironic with Sony Online Entertainment as a publisher) presented theWorld record for most players in a first-person shooter battleon. The number there is even more impressive:1,158 players at the same timewere active in a MMO shooter on the battlefield.
The record even became seven years laterstill surpassed, as a developer studio Daybreak on November 5, 2022 brought together a proud 1,530 players. The shooter in which these huge number of players were reached is calledFor PC and PS4.
The two world record attempts were made on the PC, the Guinness book continues to lead the 256 players from Mag with "Most online players in a console fps". So far, no other game has been able to play this world record.
So the year 2025 should look out loud
Behind Mag was a studio closed in 2012 with Zipper Interactive, which was previously for numerous parts of theSOCOM-SerieResponsible, a well-known console shooter series with US special units in the leading role.
Mag put onA fictional scenario: In 2025 (what a coincidence!) Wars should no longer be held by national armies, instead powerful private military companies fight in a so -called shadow war.
Five game modes, An ongoing progression with unique equipment and your own skins for every faction and the course of the war influenced by match results should withdraw from the competition.
Battlefield won in the end
However, it could never prevail on a broad levelThe metacitic cutis 76 out of 100 points.
Just two months after the releaseappeared withThe largest competitor who was able to prevail in the long term - although Dice's multiplayer shooter only allowed a maximum of 32 players per game.
The online servers for Mag wereclosed in January 2014. It is in the stars whether the shooter player record on console in the Guinness Book of Records.
