In the years since, Planetside has become a bit of a distant memory for me.
Still, what it did well, it did very well and many players were left caring deeply about the particular faction they were in, joining guilds for life and taking part in battles that could last for hours at a time. It was not without its faults, however, and as with many online shooters the players who knew their way about would find it incredibly easy to pick off the newer players, leading many to become discouraged by the near continuous deaths. Admittedly, the visuals dated rather quickly as the game was designed for hundreds of players, playing online with machines of the day. The original Planetside delivered a solid online FPS experience, with hundreds of players a side, while still having an interesting, strategic side-game, not only at a squad level, where tactical play was rewarded, but at an overarching strategic level, where commanders could manage platoons on a continental and global scale. To say I was a little excited by the news of a sequel is something of an understatement. That game was Planetside, from Sony Online Entertainment, more commonly known as SOE, and it, along with a few other games, defined an era in my gaming life. On the ground and in the air, that war still rages, even now.
You were an immortal soldier, thrown into an endless war against other immortal soldiers, fighting over kilometres of terrain in bases and outposts.
The game itself provided the same type of sandbox gameplay, but from a first-person perspective. It was from one of my favourite developers at the time, the people who had produced one of the best sandbox games I’d ever played, set in a galaxy far, far away. In 2003 I played a game that I really loved.
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