Download the base game entirely free
Some of the most epic multiplayer battles on PS4
Charging for cosmetics is smart
Plays just li🏅ke the PC version but now suite🌼d for PS4
This is not a shooter you'll want to play alone
You feel like you don't matter
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In Battlefield, I’m the boss. In Destiny, I’m top dog. In Call of Duty I can exert my cast iron will. But in Planetside 2? I’m a drop of water in a crashing wave, a brick in a wall, a tiny idiot running around going, “Wheeee”. Daybreak's massively massive free-to-play shooter, in which hundred-person teams square off on foot and in vehicles, is more MMMMMMO. But bigger isn’t always better. PlanetSide 2 on PS4 perfectly recreates the three-tiered gameplay of the now-classic PC title as you seamlessly transition from on-foot FPS combat to tank battles to spectacular ae🐷rial dogfights, and introduces controller-friendly menus in the process. The freedom is fantastic, but too much of it often leads to a rambling, unfocused experience.
The rules are simple: fight for control of the planet Auraxis by conquering and holding outposts on various continents, which sends resources back to your team and limits opposition spawning o🌜ptions. It's not so much abouꦯt killing as territorial control, moving uniformly through the map like a wrecking ball rather than bouncing around it like a… pinball, I guess?
It’s all spectacle. Repairing a line of stout Vanguard tanks slinging white-hot plasma over a rocky Indar ridge as smoke-spewing Valkyries roar through sunny skies will certainly get your pulse pounding. Fancy a change of scenery? Warp to Esamir and join the fracas in the frosty 💦tree line, reviving teammates lying dazed in snow so they can storm down a hill and besiege a solar array. The action staggers a bit during frantic moments, Daybreak's reach sometimes reaching the limits of the console's capabilities, but largely this is busy, satisfying, beautiful stuff.
Planetside 2 suffers for its size in other ways, however. One dusk skirmish outside a sprawling facility simply felt like an unwinnable standoff, opponents shooting a constant stream of insta-death from the entrance, our team blindly shoot🎃ing back, and medics on both sides reviving everyone. It can all feel a bit aimless, players like dispensable units in an RTS. To make an impact it's advisable to join a party or clan as soon as possible - you know, put the ‘plan’ in Planetside. Otherwise you’re alone in a crowd.
Planetside 2 has actually been out for close to three years now, first released on PC in November 2012. Due to its large-scale battles, Daybreak just weren't able to port it to last-gen platforms, but with the power of the PS4 now they are. An Xbox One version of Pl𒊎anetside 2 is currently in development, but the ETA on it is unknown (thankfully it’s pro💝bably not three years away).
| Genre | Shooter |
| Description | This futuristic FPS/MMO hybrid takes the original's three-sided warfare and cranks it up to a new level of intensity, all while being free-to-play. |
| Platform | "PS4","PC" |
| US censor rating | "Teen","Teen" |
| UK censor rating | "","" |
| Release date | 1 January 1970 (US), 1 January 1970 (UK) |
